Spiller, Dorothy and Armstrong, Ann C. and Sharma, Sujlesh (2021) Changing Minds and Hearts: possibilities and pitfalls of a collaborative curriculum review process. Directions: Journal of Educational Studies, Special Issue, 35 (1). pp. 6-17. ISSN 1011-5846
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This paper is a qualitative study that explores the experiences and perceptions of a number of
individual academics who have participated in a collaborative curriculum review process at the
University of the South Pacific. The research investigation aims to identify academics’ impressions of
and emotions about the possibilities of the collaborative inquiry process and their perceptions of
barriers to the process. In keeping with a narrative inquiry model, the researchers hope to identify
some of the background stories that participants bring to the curriculum work. The researchers also
investigated whether the dynamics of the working groups changed over time and if any of the
components of Communities of Practice (COP) were evident.
Participants were invited to share their impressions of the process in personal reflections which were
analysed for recurrent narratives and narrative fragments. These findings were discussed in relation
to the research questions, the current quality agenda in academia, discourses of resistance among
academic staff, the literature on change management and the concept of COP.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2361 Curriculum |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Law and Education (FALE) > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | Fulori Nainoca - Waqairagata |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2021 10:06 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2021 10:06 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/12904 |
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