This presentation presents a PhD study looking at academic conceptions of the approaches to teaching professional skills in engineering programmes in Ireland

Beagon, Una

Bowe, Brian

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Technological University Dublin ARROW@TU Dublin Other resources School of Civil and Structural Engineering 2017-05-25 A Plan for using Phenomenography to Explore Academic Conceptions of their Role in Developing Professional Skills in Engineering Students Una Beagon Technological University Dublin, una.beagon@tudublin.ie Brian Bowe Technological University Dublin, Brian.Bowe@TUDublin.ie Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/engschcivoth  Part of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Commons Recommended Citation Beagon, U. & Bowe, B. (2017)A Plan for using Phenomenography to Explore Academic Conceptions of their Role in Developing Professional Skills in Engineering Students,Presentation at CREATE research group. This Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Civil and Structural Engineering at ARROW@TU Dublin. It has been accepted for inclusion in Other resources by an authorized administrator of ARROW@TU Dublin. For more information, please contact yvonne.desmond@tudublin.ie, arrow.admin@tudublin.ie, brian.widdis@tudublin.ie. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License CREATE SeminarA plan for using phenomenography to explore academic conceptions of their role in developing professional skills in engineering studentsUna Beagon25th May 2017 OutlineContext to PhD StudyLit ReviewResearch MethodologyPhenomenographyApproaches to Teaching Inventory FeedbackWorking Title: Teaching Professional skills in Engineering Programmes: The Academic PerspectiveA plan for using phenomenography to explore academic conceptions of their role in developing professional skills in engineering studentsContext – Industry background  Technical skills are not enough….professional skills get you promoted !  Context – Lecturer in DIT  The ideal engineering graduate Professional Skills Critical thinkerTeam playerGood communicatorSelf directed learningNegotiation skillsLeadershipTechnical Skills Influences on curriculum design Engineering Academics • What is meant by professional skills in engineering? Research Questions• What are the qualitatively different ways that academics experience and conceptualise teaching in engineering programmes in Ireland? • What are engineering academics’ Approaches to Teaching  (ATI Survey Instrument)?• What is the relationship (if any) between Approaches  to Teaching and academics’ background in academia, industry or both?Literature ReviewProfessional Skills History of Engineering EducationGrand ChallengesApproaches to Teaching Inventory Industry views Academic Training  Research Design and Methodology                 Fig. 2.  Conceptual framework of research study showing key milestones  PhenomenographyPhenomenology         v’s       PhenomenographySimilarities         v’s       Differences PhenomenographyFirst proposed by Marton (1981)“Phenomenography is a research method adapted for mapping the qualitatively different ways in which people experience, conceptualise, perceive, and understand various aspects of, and phenomena in, the world around them” (Marton, 1986, p.31)Examples :• Surface and deep learning (Marton & Säljö, 1976)• Approaches to Teaching Inventory (Trigwell et al, 2005)• Academics Conceptions of Lecturing (Daniel, 2015)Bananas What do you conceptualise to be a ripe banana? Colour BlindBanana ripeness is a function of softness ConnoisseurBanana ripeness is a function of colour, softness, smell and black dotsBiochemistColour, softness, smell, no of black dots, pH valueColour vision Banana ripeness is a function of colour and black dots  Expanding awareness of banana experienceLearning“Learning in terms of changes in or widening of our ways of seeing the world can be understood in terms of discernment, simultaneity and variation”  (Bowden and Marton , 1998).Variation of views               Variation in people                               Phase 1 Survey Phase 1 Survey Academics teaching on engineering programmes in Ireland •Gender and Age•Qualifications (academic & professional)•Background Career (engineer or other)• Industrial Experience•Academic Experience•EI Accreditation•Ranking of skills required to make a good graduate•Approaches to  Teaching Inventory Phase 1 Survey Approaches to Teaching Inventory(Trigwell & Prosser, 2004) Exercise•Variation in approaches to teaching•Context specific •Teaching approaches v’s student outcomes Phase 2 Phenomenographic Interviews(15-20)Methodology & analysisTrigwell (2000) A phenomenographic interview on phenomenographyWalsh (2000) Phenomenographic analysis of interview transcriptsAshworth & Lucas (2000) Achieving empathy and engagement: a practical approach to the design, conduct and reporting of phenomenographicresearch.Next steps - 2017/18Conference paper • SEFI 2017:  Conference Paper on Research Design for critiqueJournal Paper • Professional Skills in Engineering Students – Top 10 2017 2018Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May JunLit  ReviewResearch DesignEthics ApprovalTrial Survey Stage 1 – SurveyTrial Interviews Stage 2 – Start CREATE SeminarTeaching Professional Skills in Engineering Programmes: The Academic PerspectiveUna Beagon25th May 2017 

A Plan for using Phenomenography to Explore Academic Conceptions of their Role in Developing Professional Skills in Engineering Students

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A Plan for using Phenomenography to Explore Academic Conceptions of their Role in Developing Professional Skills in Engineering Students

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