Paul Trowler

Part 1 of a keynote lecture to the Higher Education Close Up Conference, July 12-14 2012. Discusses the essentialist nature of previous theorising about disciplines and proposes an approach to conceptualising disciplines based on moderate essentialism.
Part 2 is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz-zTf...
The article from this talk is here:

http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HQj6dKg9QSgbisYJr37E/full


These arguments relate to the book I edited with colleagues:
Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Bamber, R. (Eds) (Jan 2012).Tribes and territories in the 21st-century: Rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education. London: Routledge.

There is a further video, which sets the background to this discussion, at:

http://youtu.be/8j7MeMxsoo0

See my CV at http://paul-trowler.weebly.com/

In this video I:

• Say some things about conceptualising disciplines and their power
• Briefly think about how social practice theory (stemming from Giddens, Bernstein and others) can help us with reconceptualising this
• Think about some of the drivers, vectors or catalysts of practices which to some extent may be displacing disciplinary power
• Consider the implications of this for those charged with enhancement efforts.

These arguments relate to the book I edited with colleagues:
Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Bamber, R. (Eds) (Jan 2012).Tribes and territories in the 21st-century: Rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education. London: Routledge.

See my follow-up argument at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPZQtP...

Professor Paul Trowler, Research Director at the University of Lancaster, gives his keynote presentation 'Great Expectations in Hard Times (with apologies to Dickens)' at the Learning, Teaching and Assessment conference at the University of Derby.

Keynote Speech to Blackburn College's Learning and Teaching Conference, University Centre, Blackburn College. September 2012.

Drawing on research funded by the Higher Education Academy and Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, unpicks the concept of student engagement, looks at some of the evidence about it and discusses implementation issues around attempts to enhance engagement in higher education.

See my CV website for slides associated with this talk:

http://paul-trowler.weebly.com/

Keynote lecture to Swedish educational developers, lecturers, managers and policy makers. Lund, Sweden, 2004. The paper from this talk is at: http://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/725/1/725.pdf


At that time Sweden was investigating whether to make teacher education compulsory for new university lecturers. The keynote considers this policy in the light of relevant research.