Teaching and Learning > DISCOURSE
Progression and Independent Learning
Author: David Mossley
Journal Title: Discourse
ISSN: 2040-3674
ISSN-L: 1741-4164
Volume: 8
Number: 1
Start page: 4
End page: 5
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This issue of Discourse is largely devoted to papers from ‘Spoon- Feeding or Critical Thinking? A Level / Higher to First Year Progression in Religious Studies and Theology’, a conference held at St Anne’s College, Oxford on 3rd-4th July 2008. The conference addressed a range of themes around progression, both conceptually and practically. Moving students beyond the expectations of ‘spoon-feeding’ and helping them develop their independent learning skills was seen as both a challenge and achievable by the conference presenters— schoolteachers and academics alike. The papers provide positive solutions to issues faced by lecturers today.
Many of these papers arose from projects funded or supported by the Subject Centre and demonstrate the diversity of pedagogical development taking place in our disciplines. It is a testament to the deep expertise and insights that higher education educators in our discursive disciplines bring to reflection on issues around progression for a diverse and changing student body, that we are able to publish such a good selection of papers here.
There are also other forthcoming events, including a conference on Teaching Black Theology, a workshop on using Creativity in TRS teaching in conjunction with the C4C CETL, and a colloquium on academic practice in our disciplines in collaboration with the Centre for Excellence in Academic Practice CETL.
Since the last issue we have been putting together the outcomes of a major international conference on e-learning held in the summer of 2008, along with other resources and outcomes of our e-learning project, and we shall be publishing a special e-journal edition of Discourse in the New Year.
Many thanks to those of you who returned the postcard included with the last edition. As you may know, the journal is now available as a searchable resource online, and we are committed to reducing the number of printed copies we send out, so please let us know if you would like to be removed from the hard copy mailing list, and/or added to an email list to receive a bulletin when a new e-version becomes available.
As always, feedback and comments are welcome:
david@prs.heacademy.ac.uk
All good wishes for the Christmas break. David
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