Projects - archive

General curriculum issues projects

Inquiry-Based Learning Design and Literary Studies (CILASS - Aberystwyth): This project developed and disseminated a practical methodology for IBL in English Studies. The project leaders designed a Level 2 option module requiring students to select primary texts, compile bibliographic materials, identify research questions, and determine their own themes, topics, and assessment activities.; Project Completed: April 2010; Tags: General Curriculum issues, Linking teaching & research, Inquiry-based learning

Connotations and Conjunctions: threshold concepts, curriculum development, and the cohesion of English studies (Brighton): This project explored how lecturers and students conceptualise English at the University of Brighton and places their ideas the context of proposed changes for how English is delivered across three different schools at the University.; Project completed: December 2008; Tags: General curriculum issues

First year curricula in the new universities (Derby/Wolverhampton): The purpose of this project is to propose a model, with a rationale for its adoption, for a first-year curriculum at a new university.; Project completed: 2006; Tags: General curriculum issues

The Production of University English (Keele): This project contributed to teaching expertise and to knowledge about the social construction of English by investigating the ways in which the subject is produced in day-to-day teaching situations in diverse types of university. The particular focus is on the work of the ‘teacher’.; Project completed: December 2009; Tags: General curriculum issues, Seminar teaching, Student experience