RIT week1: pre-reading

RIT pre-reading Dialogue Journal of Learning and Teaching 2016/17

Some relevant notes/quotes:
 
“The purpose of RIT is to help students learn through encountering research methods and content”

“Community of scholarship” (Brown 2009)

1. Research-tutored (ACTIVE/INVESTIGATIVE) Student focused / active knowledge producers
2. Research-based (ACTIVE/DISCOVERY) Student focused / active knowledge producers
3. Research-led (PASSIVE/DISCOVERY)
4. Research-orientated (PASSIVE/INVESTIGATIVE)

 
Teachers research interests ‘distorted the curriculum towards their research (Jenkins, 1998)
 
“To be an effective RIT practitioner, academics should consider how to negotiate the links between research and teaching, finding ways to integrate the two, thereby strengthening students’ understanding of research”
 
“In practice, RIT strongly depends on academics’ pedagogic understanding and their willingness to provide intellectual space for students to co-create and solve research questions and problems”
 
“Research and inquiry is not just for those who choose to pursue an academic career. It is central to professional life in the twenty-first century” (Brew 2007)
 
How to encourage students:
 
Students must:
-Develop the ability to investigate
-Develop the ability to make sound judgements on sound evidence
Rational decisions
Understand what and why
 
“RIT entails a conceptual shift fro viewing learning as knowledge reproduction to seeing it as knowledge construction”
 
“Pedagogy of the air” (Barnett 2007, p1)
 
“When students learn as researchers, they are given the opportunities to explore how knowledge is produced, distributed and used through research (Healey, 2014)