Abstract
Tutors are generally considered to be an additional resource in teaching and learning, as a means of augmenting that of the lecturer. This article explores tutors as academic staff with responsibilities for developing practice competencies and integrating student learning in a social care professional training degree programme. The research is small-scale, based upon data from a purposive sample of five interviews; and upon insider-participant observation notes and reflections in one single setting. The author deployed a situated ethnographic methodology alongside a frame analytic approach. The research found that in their academic practice, tutors reveal how their student contact is oriented to developing a reflective practitioner and they discuss how programme inputs impact on the student’s professional self. Simultaneously, tutors seek to create cross programme integration through finding overlaps with academic programme strands.
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Bowden, Matt
(2012)
"Conversation as Academic Practice: Tutors' Strategies in Integrating Student Learning in a Professional Training Degree Programme,"
Irish Journal of Academic Practice:
Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
doi:10.21427/D7P72K
Available at:
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijap/vol1/iss1/1
DOI
10.21427/D7P72K