New Ways of Knowing
Co-teaching in Higher Education: The Practice and Power of Collective Autonomy
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Catherine Hill, Nadera Alborno
Traditional models of teaching in higher education, which have ruled universities for more than 600 years, are slowly being retired and replaced by more active learning paradigms and student-centered pedagogies. The individual autonomy of the lecture hall is being challenged by the social, cultural, and technological changes of an increasingly cosmopolitan world. The process of worldwide globalization has facilitated the movement of people and ideas unlike any other time in human history. We are now partaking in conversations across boundaries of information, ideas, and identities leading to the evolution of a cosmopolitan worldview and an information culture wherein everybody matters and human plurality is valued. While universities are notoriously slow to change, they remain at the core of this evolving culture, not as gatekeepers of information but as facilitators of learning. This paper focuses on the practice and power of co-teaching in higher education as a model of collective autonomy. Such a strategy values the social experience of student-centered learning and aims to empower students to solve real world problems, engage in critical discourse and acquire a culturally proficient consciousness as members of cosmopolitan communities in a globalized world.
Using Qualitative Content Analysis for the Analysis of the Written Competence in Second Language: Creation of a System of Categories
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Silvia Corral Robles, Gracia González Gijón
This paper describes the process required to conduct a qualitative data analysis using a widely known research technique, content analysis, which has the purpose of extracting the relevant information from the text subsuming it to categories and storing it separately for further processing, in a study that analyses the written competence in English second language of Spanish upper secondary students. To this end, this paper explores and describes the different steps taken in the analysis process in order to create the system of categories: categorizing the information into codes, identifying the patterns and relations within and between categories, and the validation of the design of the system of categories.
The Importance of Visual Education: What You See Is What You Learn
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Maria Fornieles
Our eyes are the receptors of more than 80% of the information we take in daily. They are one of the most powerful tools to learn about our environment and to know ourselves. If we learn how to use every element, we will create a generation of people able to communicate without words. This paper considers why it is so important to decipher this complex language. The result is clearly right in front of our eyes.
