TY - JOUR
T1 - Disciplines, discourse and Orientalism: The implications for postgraduate certificates in learning and teaching in higher education
AU - Wareing, Shân
N1 - ISSN 0307-5079 print/ISSN 1470-174X online
PY - 2009/12/9
Y1 - 2009/12/9
N2 - Despite national requirements for accredited teaching qualifications, there is a lack of literature on disciplinary differences in student learning in higher education. Academics at a UK research-intensive university were asked to report on the existence of literature or knowledge concerned with how students learnt in their subject. No relevant literature or folklore was identified, but responses did demonstrate a discourse in which the academics constructed their discipline as ‘better’ than other disciplines: the finding with which the present article is concerned. The discourse of the distinctiveness and superiority of one’s own discipline can be understood as a form of ‘Orientalism’. A post-colonial analysis of the discourse of disciplinary relationships offers a partial explanation for challenges made to the validity of cross-university activities, such as postgraduate certificates in learning and teaching.
AB - Despite national requirements for accredited teaching qualifications, there is a lack of literature on disciplinary differences in student learning in higher education. Academics at a UK research-intensive university were asked to report on the existence of literature or knowledge concerned with how students learnt in their subject. No relevant literature or folklore was identified, but responses did demonstrate a discourse in which the academics constructed their discipline as ‘better’ than other disciplines: the finding with which the present article is concerned. The discourse of the distinctiveness and superiority of one’s own discipline can be understood as a form of ‘Orientalism’. A post-colonial analysis of the discourse of disciplinary relationships offers a partial explanation for challenges made to the validity of cross-university activities, such as postgraduate certificates in learning and teaching.
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/c696e4bd-eb31-32b5-b863-309cb834b268/
U2 - 10.1080/03075070902929519
DO - 10.1080/03075070902929519
M3 - Article
SN - 0307-5079
VL - 34
SP - 917
EP - 928
JO - Studies in Higher Education
JF - Studies in Higher Education
IS - 8
ER -