Altmetric

Educational expertise as prestige: research-intensive curriculum change

File Description SizeFormat 
Educational expertise as prestige research intensive curriculum change.pdfPublished online version2.08 MBAdobe PDFView/Open
Title: Educational expertise as prestige: research-intensive curriculum change
Authors: Kandiko Howson, C
Kingsbury, M
Item Type: Journal Article
Abstract: Institution-wide curriculum change is a costly, time-intensive and politically fraught undertaking. It is a challenge identifying who has responsibility for the curriculum and who is empowered to change it. The unbundling of the traditional tri-partite academic role of teaching, research and service leaves a gap of who in those communities decides what features in the curriculum. Using discourse analysis of curriculum change documentation, this paper analyses the experience of departments in a research-intensive institution undergoing a holistic, large-scale curriculum review. Departments engaged to varying degrees, with associated integration of educational and disciplinary perspectives. Landscapes of practice are used to explore different communities within departments coming together, or not, in the process. The acknowledgement and appreciation of educational expertise alongside disciplinary research-based knowledge is highlighted as a marker for successful adoption of the curriculum review intentions. This paper contributes to the underdeveloped field of curriculum change in higher education.
Date of Acceptance: 3-May-2023
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/105830
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2023.2215702
ISSN: 1356-2517
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Start Page: 1
End Page: 18
Journal / Book Title: Teaching in Higher Education
Copyright Statement: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Publication Status: Published online
Online Publication Date: 2023-05-25
Appears in Collections:Central Faculty



This item is licensed under a Creative Commons License Creative Commons