Chapter 6 Using Innovative Observation to Improve Teaching and Learning

A Collaboration between Students and Academic Staff in Higher Education

In: Sustaining the Future of Higher Education
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Matt O’Leary
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Abstract

This chapter explores the experiences of university teachers and students who participated in an innovative model of collaborative observation over two academic years. Drawing on qualitative data from several longitudinal case studies involving small groups of staff and students, we critically reflect on the key findings and implications for improving teaching and learning in higher education. The chapter reveals how these students and their teachers used a model of collaborative observation to develop a collective classroom consciousness about learning and its relationship with teaching. As an antidote to neo-liberal, commodified conceptualisations of teaching and learning that have historically dominated the use of observation in education, the participants’ experiences captured here illustrate how our innovative model can provide a stimulating platform from which to co-develop collective classroom consciousness. This classroom consciousness can subsequently be used to inform and transform the learning and professional practice of students and their teachers meaningfully and sustainably.

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Introduction Sustainability of Higher Education in Uncertain Times
Chapter 1 Sustaining the European Higher Education Area
Chapter 2 Striving for Research Excellence by Understanding Institutional Rationalities
Chapter 3 When Excellence Meets Relevance
Chapter 4 Student Driven Innovations
Chapter 5 Experiences of Academic Leadership in Ireland 2008–2014
Chapter 6 Using Innovative Observation to Improve Teaching and Learning
Chapter 7 Using Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) for Building Youth Consciousness on Democracy in Everyday Life (DIEL) in India
Chapter 8 Linkages between Academic Culture and Management in Polish Higher Education
Chapter 9 Exploring the Impact of Student Mobility and Extracurricular Engagement on Academic Performance and Graduate Outcomes
Chapter 10 Can the New COVID-19 Normal Help to Achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4?
Chapter 11 The Roles of Higher Education Managers in Germany
Chapter 12 The Incomplete PDCA Cycle in the Research, Development and Innovation Activities at a Finnish UAS
Chapter 13 Organisational Change in Student Affairs

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