Understanding and influencing teaching and learning cultures at university - A network approach
Roxå, Torgny LU ; Mårtensson, Katarina LU
and Alveteg, Mattias
LU
(2011)
In Higher Education
62(1).
p.99-111
- Abstract
- Academic cultures might be perceived as conservative, at least in terms of development of teaching and learning. Through a lens of network theory this conceptual article analyses the pattern of pathways in which culture is constructed through negotiation of meaning. The perspective contributes to an understanding of culture construction and maintenance with a potential to aid academic developers and others in the endeavour to influence teaching and learning cultures in academia. Throughout the discussion the importance of supporting the weak links between clusters of individuals stands out as a feature to focus upon. We propose that the sheer complexity of culture construction and maintenance in academic organisations is likely to cause... (More)
- Academic cultures might be perceived as conservative, at least in terms of development of teaching and learning. Through a lens of network theory this conceptual article analyses the pattern of pathways in which culture is constructed through negotiation of meaning. The perspective contributes to an understanding of culture construction and maintenance with a potential to aid academic developers and others in the endeavour to influence teaching and learning cultures in academia. Throughout the discussion the importance of supporting the weak links between clusters of individuals stands out as a feature to focus upon. We propose that the sheer complexity of culture construction and maintenance in academic organisations is likely to cause any single, isolated attempt for change to fail Instead, we argue that a multitude of inter-related initiatives over a long period of time is likely to distinguish strategies that are successful in influencing academic teaching and learning cultures. (Less)
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- author
- Roxå, Torgny
LU
; Mårtensson, Katarina
LU
and Alveteg, Mattias
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2011
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- leadership, teaching and learning development, network, academic culture, SoTL
- categories
- Higher Education
- in
- Higher Education
- volume
- 62
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 99 - 111
- publisher
- Springer
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- wos:000291221900007
- scopus:79957929457
- ISSN
- 1573-174X
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10734-010-9368-9
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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