Reconceptualising academic work as professional practice: implications for academic development |
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| Authors: | David Boud Angela Brew |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology , Sydney , Australia david.boud@uts.edu.au;3. Learning and Teaching Centre, Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia |
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| Abstract: | Despite increasing research and scholarship in the area of academic development in recent years, it remains an under-theorised field of endeavour. The paper proposes that academic developers take a view on what constitutes academic work and see it as a form of professional practice. It discusses the features of practice theory that illuminate professional practice and identifies three foci for the application of these ideas within academic development: practice development, fostering learning-conducive work and deliberately locating activity within practice. It also suggests that academic development be viewed as a practice and points to features within its own traditions on which to build. |
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| Keywords: | professional practice practice theory scholarship of practice educational development |
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