Open Access“Friday is my research day”: chance, time and desire in the search for the teaching-research nexus in the life of a university teacher
Author(s) -
William E Boyd,
Meg O’Reilly,
Karyn Rendell,
S. Rowe,
Érica Wilson,
Kay Dimmock,
Wendy Boyd,
Elaine M. Nuske,
Johan Richard Edelheim,
Daniel J Bucher,
Kath Fisher
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of university teaching and learning practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.258
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1449-9789
DOI - 10.53761/1.9.2.2
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , narrative , pedagogy , sociology , work (physics) , mathematics education , psychology , computer science , engineering , art , mechanical engineering , literature , embedded system
This paper builds on some ideas recently presented by Boyd et al. (2010). In that paper, the focus was on the ways in which experienced academic staff articulate the teaching-research nexus. By presenting six short case accounts, this paper describes how a reflective narrative activity enabled some ‘new to academe’ teachers to identify the teaching research nexus in their own work. For each of them, there was some particular reason or stimulus that led to them articulating the teaching-learning nexus in their work. Given the effectiveness of this method for enabling staff to consider the teaching-research nexus, this paper speculates on ways of drawing all academic staff to encounter the ‘concept’ of the teachingresearch nexus.