- Title
- Knowledge and knowers in teaching and learning: an enhanced approach to curriculum alignment
- Creator
- Clarence, Sherran
- Date Issued
- 2016
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- article
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59823
- Identifier
- vital:27655
- Identifier
- http://www.legitimationcodetheory.com/pdf/2016Clarence-c.pdf
- Description
- John Biggs’ well-known curriculum design approach, constructive alignment, is widely used in higher education in the United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa. Developed with one dominant account of learning through curriculum, this approach has a gap in terms of accounting for other kinds of knowledge building, and associated knower development. This paper proposes a complementary approach that accounts for different kinds of knowledge and knower building. Using Legitimation Code Theory’s concept of Specialisation, the paper argues that accounting for what makes a discipline ‘special’ in terms of its basis for legitimate achievement can enable curriculum writers to align curricula more effectively with that basis in different disciplines. Using a case study approach, this paper shows how this tool can provide lecturers and academic development practitioners with a useful mode of analysing curriculum alignment to more ably account for differential development of disciplinary knowledges and knowers.
- Format
- 20 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Education
- Relation
- Clarence, S. (2016) Knowledge and knowers in teaching and learning: an enhanced approach to curriculum alignment. Journal of Education. 66 (2016). p.65-84. Available: http://joe.ukzn.ac.za/Libraries/No_66_2016/Knowledge_and_knowers_in_teaching_and_learning_An_enhanced_approach_to_curriculum_alignment.sflb.ashx
- Relation
- Journal of Education 66 vol. 1 no. 65 84 2016-06-04 2520-9868
- Rights
- Clarence, Sherran
- Rights
- Article use governed by the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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