Linking teaching and research (10 July 07)
Date: 10 July, 2007
Location: Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
Event type: Conference
Past event summary
Debates about the links between teaching and research in UK higher education have intensified in recent years, as both teaching and research have come under increased pressure for performance, accountability and assessment. Increasingly, institutions and individual staff are being defined as led by either teaching or research. And the link between research and teaching is by turns derided - and hotly defended.
These debates raise a number of important questions.
- Can a teacher in higher education be effective without also being an active researcher?
- Are good teaching and good research conflicting goals?
- Is a focus on one likely to lead to the neglect of the other?
- How far should teaching be informed by or led by research?
- Do students benefit or suffer from being taught by active researchers in their discipline, or by specialist teachers who are not themselves active in research?
- How does the picture vary across the different phases of higher education, between different types of student, or between different types of institution?
- What are the roles of academic leaders and institutional management in negotiating the research-teaching nexus?
- What models are available in other European countries and further afield?
This conference aimed to delve beneath the rhetoric and explore the complex relationship between teaching and research in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies.
Keynote speakers
Prof. Clare Mar-Molinero
www.lang.soton.ac.uk/profiles/mar.htm
Head of Modern Languages, School of Humanities, University of Southampton
Co-editor of Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices: the Future of Language in Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Prof. Alan Jenkins
www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/consultants/external/alan_jenkins.html
Consultant- Higher Education Academy
Co-author of Reshaping Teaching in Higher Education: Linking Teaching with Research (Routledge Falmer 2002).
Programme
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| Time | Lecture Theatre B |
|---|---|
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Registration and coffee |
| 11.00 - 11.50 |
Keynote: The Hyphenated Identity of the Academic Scholar: Codeswitching across teaching-research Prof Clare Mar-Molinero, Head of Modern Languages, School of Humanities, University of Southampton  Presentation |
| 11.50 - 13.00 |
The use of research to improve teaching and learning in the foreign language classroom Action research for curriculum developments in languages: identifying troublesome grammar knowledge Piloting a framework for learner strategy training to support independent learning |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - 14.50 |
Keynote: Linking Teaching and Research in Disciplines/Courses and Departments in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies Prof Alan Jenkins, Consultant HE Academy, Oxford Brookes University Presentation | Bibliography |
| 14.50 - 15.30 |
Teaching and researching L2 writing: Exploring academic identities as teachers and researchers in a Spanish university setting The role of professional doctorates in the development of academic roles and identities |
| 15.30 - 15.50 | Tea |
| 15.50 - 16.50 |
Learning from teaching or how classroom teaching can benefit our research The presence of language research in undergraduate education Why can’t you understand that we don’t understand what you are talking about? |
| 16.50 - 17.15 |
Plenary Chair: Prof Michael Kelly, Director, Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies |
Location
School of Humanities
Avenue Campus
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF
