Full Description
This edited collection interrogates notions of curriculum, inclusivity, diversity, and cultures of learning in higher education from a variety of cultural backgrounds and educational perspectives.
Bringing together an international selection of contributors from a range of disciplines, this book presents different avenues for rethinking the foundational base of cultures of learning while emphasising the importance of interculturality. The crux of the book lies in the fact that the contributors, living through complex cultures, speak/write from their own experiences of seeing, knowing, and doing. Through insights presented by the authors, the book promotes a broadened and deeper understanding of teaching and learning across diverse fields, including alternative knowledge, creative arts, education, technology, STEM, study skills, and environmental sustainability. Arguing for the need to review curriculum issues and policies at both an institutional and national level, it highlights the importance of creating collaborative spaces for constructing new and alternative scholarship and methods within higher education. Supported by case studies and examples of teaching practice, the text reveals the current state of educational and cultural changes and challenges for students and educators in higher education while looking towards the future.
This book is a requisite text for academics, researchers, policymakers, support staff, and postgraduate students in higher education.
Contents
Introduction: Deliberation Foreword Part 1: Capturing Curriculum 1. A Curriculum is about content, process, context, and relationality...and they (should) always go together... 2. Dismantling sounds and silences of heritage curriculum and traditional pedagogies in music education 3. Conceptualising 'The Research Question', 'Academic Acclimatisation', and 'Supervisory Understandings', for International Research Candidates 4. Exploration of Curriculum Issues on STEM Subjects from an Australian - Indian Knowledge Perspective 5. Flexible curriculum to meet the needs of disadvantaged students during the Pandemic Part 2: Diversity 6. Intercultural collaborative pedagogy and co-design for Architecture and Built Environment Education 7. Culturally Responsive Teaching with pre-service teachers and the challenges to action Culturally Responsive Pedagogies in an Australian Education context 8. Teaching medical laboratory sciences in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) environment 9. Reflections on culturally responsive practices and pedagogies: Higher Education and Initial Teacher Education Programs and support, inclusivity and diversity in the Australian context 10. Teaching and learning to support inclusion in Law Education: Autoethnographic Reflections of a Law Teacher 11. Tertiary programs in Chinese languages: Challenges and expectations of mixed-background students Part 3: Cultures of Learning 12. Engaging Care for Mother Earth as Central Pedagogy for Sustainable, and Regenerative Social Work: A Field Education Example from lutruwita Tasmania 13. Work integrated learning (WIL): An investigation of strategies to enable access, participation, and success for Australian First Nations Students 14. Graduating from University: Cultures of Learning 15. The Importance of Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officers in the History of Aboriginal Health in Victoria in the Period 1982-2010- Interview between Aunty Lyn McInnes and Dr Margaret Kumar 16. Australia - India Partnerships in Social Entrepreneurship: Lessons for students - Interview between Professor Mukti Mishra and Professor Supriya Pattanayak 17. Cultures of learning in social work field education: Australian students' experience Concluding Chapter - Future Focus
