site académie
Catalogue des cours 2010-2011

Académie universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles
home - back

Course description of EDUC-E-408 [version française]

Title

Teaching practices and forms of knowledges in higher education



Lecturer

Mme Sabine KAHN



Prerequisites

None



Objective

 In an overview of researches on the conditions for students' success in higher education, identify paradigms, methods and assumptions about the practices of teachers  Show, to the students, the specificities of researches about the relation between teaching practices and knowledge in the higher education  Initiate them to concepts and analytical tools design for theses researches



Contents

 The problem of massive failure of students in the early higher education scholarship. Historic basis, international comparisons  The quantitative researches on the factors of success and failure in higher education  The comprehensive researches: student's methodology of work; concept of affiliation, « relation to knowledge »  Researches on teaching practices in higher education (occupational/alternance training, learning problems, case-based methods ...). The student's assistance and support devices. The devices design for teachers  The nature of knowledge taught in higher education. Knowledges and teaching conditions. The « relation to knowledge » of students



Campus and term(s)

Campus du Solbosch, 2nd term



Teaching methods

Courses and interactions with students



Assessment

Written exam consisting in: 1) open questions about the course, 2) question on book or article to be chosen by the student in a list provided by the teacher



ECTS

total: 4 ECTS (théorie: 2, travaux personnels: 2)

The ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credit is a measure of the student workload for each activity associated with a course. Conventionally, one ECTS credit represents 24h of work.


Course thaught in

Académie universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles:


EDUC-E-408-A

PEDA6: master complémentaire en pédagogie universitaire et de l'enseignement supérieur - année unique (optional)





Other faculties, schools or institutes:

This course is administered by l'académie universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles. Click here to see all programs of study where this course appears.