The workshop discussion raised many issues, largely of frustration, either with students or with management. We were fortunate to have a student in the session to provide insight from the "other" side. Just as we as teachers and educators are looking for new ways of engaging and motivating students in courses that may be compulsory (e.g. general education), so she was able to tell us that her training had not really equipped her for practice. Other participants expressed frustration with motivating faculty to think about outcomes and generic attributes, generally because there were no perceived rewards for teaching.
I am not sure that we came up a consensus in terms of what action research we might engage in so I will pose some questions that might get the ball rolling:
What skills, attributes are required for your discipline/field/area/profession?
Are you currently “teaching”/students “learning” them? How? Why not? How could you incorporate them into your teaching practice?
Are you assessing them? How? Why not? How could you assess them?
Emiratisation! Graduates not appropriately prepared? Why?
Graduate attributes and disciplines? Differences?
Espoused theory vs. theory in action?
Students vs. faculty views?
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