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Promoting innovation in university teaching against the tide of centralised control and institutional risk avoidance
Over the last m'o decades, university systems world-wide have been subject to government initiated, top-down restructures in the name of greater effectiveness, accountability and quality. Within this timefrome, government interest in university teaching has increased, and innovation and responsiveness in teaching have been increasingly prioritised by both government and university policies. AcademiC interest in the teaching has also increased. and much research and discussion has focused on defining teaching as a source of scholarship and expounding its role in the promotion of innovation, and in the recognition and rewarding of teaching work. In this paper, I draw on a study of academics' views, which I have reported at previous AARE conferences and elsewhere, to raise questions about recent and ongoing developments in the work environment of university educators.l raise the possibility that systems and processes whose express purpose is to facilitate and support university educators' efforts to improve teaching are, in fact. inhibiting innovative practice by institutionalising an aversion to risk that is anathema to innovation.
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Educational research, risks and dilemmas: NZARE AARE conference proceedings 2003Event
New Zealand Association for Research in Education. Conference (2003 : Auckland, New Zealand)Pagination
1 - 13Publisher
[Australian Association for Research in Education]Location
Auckland, N.Z.Place of publication
[Coldstream, Vic.]Start date
2003-11-29End date
2003-12-03ISSN
1176-4902Language
engNotes
New Zealand Association for Research in Education / Australian Association for Research in Education ConferencePublication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2003, AAREEditor/Contributor(s)
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