Browsing by Autor "Alison Reedy"

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Balancing the local and global: A review of teaching and learning literature from Colombia
(2019) María Lucía Guerrero Farías; Alison Reedy
This paper presents a systematic review of the extent and nature of teaching and learning research in Colombia. The study identified that teaching and learning research is growing but is unevenly spread amongst a small number of Colombian private and public universities. The quantity of learning and teaching research emerging from a small number of institutions is linked to the presence of education development centres that support the research and dissemination of teaching innovation. The dominance of research related to technology innovation reflects the purpose of these centres. The teaching and learning research literature emerging from these universities reflects global educational themes but contains little of the issues and challenges related to diversity, inequality, and other social, political and economic realities that situates higher education research within local contexts. This study concludes that a critical approach to teaching and learning research is needed to balance the local with the global in teaching and learning research in Colombia.
Teaching practicums as an ideal setting for the development of teachers-in-training.
(University of Murcia, 2022) Nancy Palacios Mena; Alison Reedy
The objective of the study on which this article is based was to identify the pedagogical knowledge and research skills achieved by a group of teachers-in-training from different discipline areas who undertook a newly developed teaching-practicum program at a Colombian university. This study used a qualitative methodological design. The data collection instruments were documents that were generated from the teaching practicums. These were documents that were filled out by the teachers-in-training, by mentor teachers, and by the practicum supervisor. Documents were collected from 21 undergraduate students (pre-service teachers) from two cohorts. The review and content analysis of the documents was complemented by a focus group in which the teachers-in-training were able to discuss and rank the skills and benchmarks of progress that they considered most important and those that they had most difficulty in achieving. The results illustrate: (i) the central role of teacher education in providing pre-service teachers with the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to effectively perform the work of teachers; (ii) the education that pre-service teachers receive exerts a powerful influence on their concept of teaching and learning, which in turn affects their pedagogical practice; (iii) teaching practicums provide teachers in training with a valuable opportunity to implement what they have learned in the teacher training process, making the link between the abstract and the concrete more and more visible.