Investigating non-engagement with feedback in higher education as a social practice |
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Authors: | Bente Mosgaard Jørgensen |
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Affiliation: | Aarhus University, Aarhus 8000, Denmark |
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Abstract: | Quality in feedback processes rests on students’ engagement with them. A crucial question is therefore why students do not always engage. Scholars have defined engagement as a social practice, pointing to the influence of context but without explaining its nature. The purpose of this article is to argue that existing approaches without a theory of the social cannot fully explain non-engagement and that a practice theoretical approach may fill this gap. It introduces Stephen Kemmis' practice ontology and demonstrates how a feedback practice can be analysed to explain a weak engagement. The article’s contribution to research in engagement with feedback is a new ontology of practice and its methodological apparatus. |
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Keywords: | feedback engagement with feedback practice theory Stephen Kemmis Theodore Schatzki |
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