Monday, November 06, 2006
two JoHLSTE articles
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Ian Gilhespy writes:
Last year we arranged a visit from Nina Becket from the Learning and Teaching Support Network for our subject areas. Following a wide-ranging discussion she encouraged a number of us to write up some of our experiences running and teaching our courses here at Marjon. I'd never done a 'pedagogy' piece before but felt encouraged to have a bash. I ended up writing a paper about our response to some of the challenges posed by the key skills agenda and the requirement for personal development profiling within a leisure studies programme. In an environment of widening participation and student diversity, the response had been to adopt a flexible teaching and learning strategy that was derived from the particular needs of students in a bespoke manner. The benefits and drawbacks of the strategy were assessed from the perspectives of both students and tutors with the general conclusion that ‘just-in-time’ teaching may be an appropriate response to a challenging set of educational circumstances. Unknown to me at the time of developing the module, the strategy that we had adopted is what is referred to in the States as 'Just-in-Time' teaching - a process that turns out to be big news in many of the community college campuses.
The final article, Designing Personal Development Modules for Leisure Studies: a Discussion of the Adoption of Flexible Teaching and Learning Approaches, is published in the April 2005 edition of JoHLSTE and can be read (pdf format) here.
Dave Harris writes:
I was at the same meeting with Nina Becket and was similarly encouraged. I began by looking at past editions of JoHLSTE to get the hang of it, and I tried to tie in my piece with a debate I found there about the subject boundaries of Tourism and how that affected actual teaching. I wondered what that debate would look like if applied to Leisure Studies. I also had a book I wanted to publicise. The final version, Leisure Studies as a Teaching Object, is published in the same April edition of JoHLSTE and can be read (pdf format) here
Ian Gilhespy
Dave Harris
