<p> As the landscape of America changes, it is critical for social workers to successfully engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate diverse client populations. As such, it is important for schools of social work to prepare graduate students to engage in &ldquo;diversity and difference in practice&rdquo; (Council on Social Work Education, 2015, p. 7). Virtual education holds unique challenges and opportunities for teaching social work students how to address diversity. In this exploratory qualitative study, faculty teaching in an online master of social work degree program participated in focus groups (<i>N</i> = 23), one-on-one interviews (<i>N</i> = 3), and an online survey (<i>N</i> = 70) regarding their experiences teaching diversity. Using the Clark and Estes&rsquo; (2008) framework, the findings are categorized by knowledge, motivation, and organizational influences to teaching diversity: </p><p> Knowledge: Faculty members need <i>up to date diversity-related information</i>, to understand how their <i>positionality influences pedagogy</i>, to consider the implications of <i>instructor-to-student privilege</i>, to <i>engage all students</i>, to recognize how student <i>regional differences</i> can have an impact on course curriculum and appreciate consistent and continual <i>faculty reflection </i>, which may enhance pedagogy. </p><p> Motivation: Faculty members need to see the value in committing to <i> critical conversations</i> and believe they can handle difficult <i> classroom climates</i>. </p><p> Organization: Faculty members expressed a <i>need for supportive resources, evaluation of diversity-related, synchronous content and delivery, clear and consistent messages from leadership, an opportunity to discuss and share tools and resources, and training</i>. </p><p> The findings confirm and further explicate the nascent existing literature on teaching diversity in an online classroom.</p><p>

Submitted by Rosina Valeria Lanzellotti Mattiussi Teixeira (rosina.teixeira@unisantos.br) on 2015-04-10T18:29:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Leandro Gon¿alves Martins.pdf: 1186275 bytes, checksum: 8160d4601768d86d2ab056eb3c429c29 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-10T18:29:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leandro Gon¿alves Martins.pdf: 1186275 bytes, checksum: 8160d4601768d86d2ab056eb3c429c29 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-25 / The objective of this research is to analyze the influence of the National Higher Education Evaluation System (SINAES), with emphasis on ENADE in the university teaching practice. Thus aims to understand, with a sociological interpretation, and within the context of private IES, the main influences that SINAES can bring to the university teaching practice in the perception of teachers surveyed, exposing the perception and the understanding of these on the concept and the scope of ENADE and also analyzes what these have meaning and changed their practices as a result of this external evaluation. It is considered that the interaction of teachers with ENADE can bring changes in their practices. We selected four private universities located in the city of Santos SP to be surveyed, two universities and two university centers. Participants teachers work in higher education in administration of their respective institutions. The techniques for data collection were questionnaires and interviews. Dias Sobrinho, Sguissardi and Boaventura Santos reference the Brazilian university context here reported. The sociological discourse analysis (DSA), based on Ibáñez and Ruiz Ruiz, was chosen as the analysis technique. The concepts of ethos, habitus, field and symbolic violence from Bourdieu contributed to the analysis performed in this study, seeking to better understand the words and actions of the above social context. The results show some of the perceptions that have investigated about the influences felt from the ENADE, among them stand out: limitation of the concept of ENADE the simple assessment of students; changes in the format of questions and reviews to fit the model proposed by ENADE; and even changes in the teaching plan and course contents on account of this evaluation. According to the foregoing research, can inquire about the extent to which current methods of external evaluations are adequate to ensure the quality of Brazilian higher education. Wonders about the effectiveness of ENADE beyond the quantitative purposes. Not objective conclusion, simply, if this evaluative model is good or bad for universities or teachers involved, but to present this assessment shows influences on teaching practices. / O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar a influência do Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Superior (SINAES), com ênfase no ENADE, na prática docente universitária. Visa assim compreender, com uma interpretação sociológica, e dentro do contexto das IES privadas, as principais influências que o SINAES pode trazer para a prática docente universitária, na percepção dos professores pesquisados, expondo a percepção e o entendimento destes sobre o conceito e o escopo do ENADE e ainda analisa o que estes têm sentido e alterado às suas práticas, em decorrência desta avaliação externa. Considera-se que a interação dos docentes com o ENADE pode trazer modificações em suas práticas. Selecionaram-se quatro IES privadas localizadas na cidade de Santos SP para serem pesquisadas, sendo duas universidades e dois centros universitários. Os docentes participantes atuam no curso superior em administração de suas respectivas instituições. As técnicas para coleta de dados foram aplicação de questionários e entrevistas. Dias Sobrinho, Sguissardi e Boaventura Santos referenciam o contexto universitário brasileiro aqui relatado. A análise sociológica do discurso (ASD), baseada em Ibáñez e Ruiz Ruiz, foi escolhida como técnica de análise. Os conceitos de ethos, habitus, campo e violência simbólica de Bourdieu contribuíram na análise realizada nesta pesquisa, buscando melhor compreender as falas e as ações sociais do contexto exposto. Os resultados mostram algumas das percepções que os investigados possuem sobre as influências sentidas provenientes do ENADE, dentre elas destacam-se: limitação do conceito de ENADE à simples avaliação de alunos; modificações no formato de questões e avaliações para adequação ao modelo proposto pelo ENADE; e ainda mudanças nos planos de ensino e nos conteúdos programáticos por conta desta avaliação. De acordo com o que foi exposto na pesquisa, pode-se inquirir sobre até que ponto os métodos atuais das avaliações externas são adequados para assegurar a qualidade do ensino superior brasileiro. Questiona-se sobre a efetividade do ENADE para além dos fins quantitativos. Não se objetiva concluir, simplesmente, se este modelo avaliativo é bom ou ruim para as universidades ou os docentes envolvidos, mas sim apresentar que esta avaliação traz influências nas práticas docentes.

This study investigates how an active language learner is constructed in the context of teacher education for teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) in Vietnam, as well as the supportive factors and challenges in developing learner activeness in language learning.

Most teachers prefer not to write and publish on teaching. As a result, teaching tends to be written by researchers and others who are not core participants in the practices and contexts they are writing about. Furthermore, the narratives these writers provide are frequently told and explained in language that teachers find inauthentic. Since composing in writing is a key component of learning, teachers who do not write miss out on valuable opportunities for self-growth; and those who do not publish their reflections in any written form forgo a source of collaborative learning. This Doctor of Philosophy study examines the possibilities of published reflective writing in teacher learning for TESOL practitioners.

This interpretive study investigated the process of radical change for a collaborative team of investigators in an allied health school at the University of South Australia. Specifically, it investigated the process of developing and implementing a fully-integrated problem-based learning curriculum across the entire undergraduate curriculum for the School of Medical Radiation. The study examined the richness and complexity of the change process for this team of educators over a two year time period. The research builds on understandings of change derived from three main bodies of literature: the school-based educational change literature; the problem-based learning literature; and the organisational change literature. It interweaves knowledge gained from each of these areas to develop a new perspective from which to consider radical educational change in higher education. Much of the previous research into change ignores the participant experience, and particularly the emotional dimension of this experience. This study redresses that gap by exploring the human dimension of the change process. This study has provided an authentic and inclusive representation of participants' experience of radical educational change. It has shown that participants not only undergo considerable cognitive dissonance when implementing major change, they also undergo significant emotional dissonance. Thus, if we are to improve the outcomes of educational innovation, we need to develop change management practices that not only recognise but also support the emotional dimension of the change process.

This interpretive study investigated the process of radical change for a collaborative team of investigators in an allied health school at the University of South Australia. Specifically, it investigated the process of developing and implementing a fully-integrated problem-based learning curriculum across the entire undergraduate curriculum for the School of Medical Radiation. The study examined the richness and complexity of the change process for this team of educators over a two year time period. The research builds on understandings of change derived from three main bodies of literature: the school-based educational change literature; the problem-based learning literature; and the organisational change literature. It interweaves knowledge gained from each of these areas to develop a new perspective from which to consider radical educational change in higher education. Much of the previous research into change ignores the participant experience, and particularly the emotional dimension of this experience. This study redresses that gap by exploring the human dimension of the change process. This study has provided an authentic and inclusive representation of participants' experience of radical educational change. It has shown that participants not only undergo considerable cognitive dissonance when implementing major change, they also undergo significant emotional dissonance. Thus, if we are to improve the outcomes of educational innovation, we need to develop change management practices that not only recognise but also support the emotional dimension of the change process.

In this thesis it is argued that the fundamental goal of education is one of equipping students to think well, that is, to make decisions on the basis of arguments that are both logically cogent and ethically grounded. Moreover, the concern of the thesis is the role social and environmental education might play in fostering both the capability and the readiness to engage widely in such thinking. Drawing on relevant philosophical and psychological theory the study describes the development of an educational programme grounded in the procedures of ethical inquiry and taught via whole-class community of inquiry style discussions. The programme was trialled by way of a large scale, matched intervention study in South Australian upper primary classrooms. The findings from the research project indicate that participation in the programme produced significant gains in participants' logical and ethical reasoning and also that the programme fits within the constraints of prevailing educational structures.

In this thesis it is argued that the fundamental goal of education is one of equipping students to think well, that is, to make decisions on the basis of arguments that are both logically cogent and ethically grounded. Moreover, the concern of the thesis is the role social and environmental education might play in fostering both the capability and the readiness to engage widely in such thinking. Drawing on relevant philosophical and psychological theory the study describes the development of an educational programme grounded in the procedures of ethical inquiry and taught via whole-class community of inquiry style discussions. The programme was trialled by way of a large scale, matched intervention study in South Australian upper primary classrooms. The findings from the research project indicate that participation in the programme produced significant gains in participants' logical and ethical reasoning and also that the programme fits within the constraints of prevailing educational structures.

The portfolio explores the construction, representation and interpretation of internationalisation at the University of South Australia (UniSA) within the broader concept of internationalisation in higher education. The research is situated within a postmodern, postcolonial world and is influenced significantly by the work of Foucault ([1972] 2003), Fairclough (1989; 1992), Said (1995 [1978]) and Cherryholmes (1988). The portfolio consists of three related research reports and a meta-analysis which both connects these individual reports and conducts further analysis of the issues and themes arising from the research. The literature reviewed in Research Report 1 describes a range of approaches to internationalisation and issues associated with its definition and implementation in universities. It is concluded that internationalisation in higher education is part of a network of constantly developing and changing discourses all of which both influence and are influenced by political, social and economic contexts and agendas. The nature of the discourse of internationalisation at UniSA and the power/knowledge relations which are embedded within and support it are the focus of the second research report which consists of a critical discourse analysis of a corpus of documents related to internationalisation and Graduate Quality #7 at UniSA. Five discourses of internationalisation at UniSA are identified and the roles associated with the primary subjects of the discourse (academic staff, Australian students and international students) are described. Significant shifts in the discursive construction of internationalisation at UniSA over time are also identified, including the tendency for the economic discourse to be viewed as dominant and the associated ideology to be naturalised. The third research report consists of ‘snapshots’ of the experience of internationalisation in different places and from different perspectives. It strives for a deeper understanding of the complexity of internationalisation at UniSA through exploration of the construction of Graduate Quality #7 (that students of UniSA will develop international perspectives as professionals and citizens) in two different cultural and educational contexts ���������������� Adelaide and Hong Kong. The research highlights the need to embed and integrate intercultural learning into the culture of UniSA – to assist all staff and all students to move into uncomfortable intercultural spaces; to learn from and with each other within those spaces; to challenge their stereotypes and prejudices and to move on from them. The three reports are drawn together in the meta-analysis which concludes that although there are signs of ideological struggle within the discourse of internationalisation, the constructions of internationalisation and its subjects and actors at UniSA and beyond are consistent with a construction of internationalisation as a neo-colonialist activity. It suggests a modified approach to internationalisation – one that challenges the stereotypes and hegemonies currently associated with it. This has implications for the focus of professional development and student services to support internationalisation at UniSA and other Australian universities.