Meeting the Challenges of Change in Postgraduate Education

This text takes a radical look at the nature of adult learning in the postgraduate context and at the implications of this for universities and their courses. While, over recent decades, schools have had to undergo major re-assessments about how learning is developed into curriculum, how learning is delivered to students, and how that learning is assessed, universities have remained very largely detached from these pedagogical/andragogical issues. However, the circumstances of higher education provision have changed. There is also real pressure now from vocationalism. Meeting the Challenges of Change in Postgraduate Educationplaces these movements in both a UK and a wider context examines the nature of learning and teaching in postgraduate education and opens up the debate for rethinking university provision. The book examines concepts such as integration as ways of retaining the higher order skills of a university education over against narrower, technicist approaches and suggest a continuum of provision, but one in which the learner takes centre stage.

About the Editor and Authors \ Introduction \ Part I: First Encounters with Postgraduate Education: The concept of the course \ 1. Theoretical Perspectives Trevor Kerry and Carolle Kerry \ 2. Small-scale Indicative Research Carolle Kerry and Trevor Kerry \ 3. The Strength of the MA by Learning Contract in the Context of Lifelong Learning Mark Sandle \ Part II: Postgraduate Education: Principles and philosophy \ 4. Humboldt's Relevance Today Lewis Elton \ 5. Postgraduate Studies in Europe: Looking Beyond Bologna Terence Karran and Kent Lofgren \ 6. ICT and Postgrduate Education Francesc Pedro \ 7. Enhancing Quality in Postgraduate Work Trevor Kerry with Paul McDermott \ Part III: Postgraduate Experience: The student perspective \ 8. Tutoring at the Postgraduate Level Trevor Kerry and Carolle Kerry \ 9. Andragogy and Heutagogy in Postgraduate Work Wing Commander Chris Kenyon RAAF and Stewart Hase \ 10. Academic Apprenticeship Jon Scaife and Tony Harland \ Postscript \ Index