Myths in Education, Learning and Teaching Policies, Practices and Principles

by Harmes, Marcus K.; Huijser, Henk; Danaher, Patrick Alan

• ISBN13: 9781137476975
• ISBN10: 1137476974
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-02-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

A myth empowers by providing a foundation story of a society, culture or civilization, bringing coherence and meaning to identity and underpinning custom. But 'myth' also carries darker meaning, suggesting ideas or practices that are fallacious or accepted uncritically.
This book engages with these possible understandings of myths and uses them to interrogate educational practice and theory in three main areas: online teaching; language teaching; and specific tertiary or university based issues. The focus is on exploring and defining myths across a wide range of contexts and educational sectors. It brings together a broad range of senior researchers and middle-career and early-career scholars from the United Kingdom, North America, Europe, the Middle East and Australasia.

Author Biography

Marcus K. Harmes is a Lecturer at the Open Access College at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His research spans fields in the humanities and educational practice, especially in tertiary pathways education.
 
Henk Huijser is a Senior Lecturer in Flexible Learning and Innovation at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Australia. His research includes learning and teaching in higher education, as well as media and cultural studies, and he has published widely in both fields.
 
Patrick Alan Danaher is Professor in Educational Research at the Toowoomba Campus of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His recent co-authored publications include Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts and Educational Learning and Development: Building and Enhancing Capacity.

Table of Contents

1. Demythologizing Teaching and Learning in Education: Towards a Research Agenda; Marcus K. Harmes, Henk Huijser and Patrick Alan Danaher

2. Learning Power: Taking Learning-Centredness Seriously in a Learning Environment; Julianne Willis, Marilynn Willis and Henk Huijser

3. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: Mythic Aspects in the Tertiary Sector; Barbara A. H. Harmes

4. Does Increased Teaching Equate to Increased Learning?; Wim Gijselaers and Amber Dailey-Hebert

5. Self-Identified and Observed Teaching Styles: A Case Study of Senior Physical Education Teachers in Queensland Schools; Brendan SueSee and Ken Edwards

6. 'We Don't Need No Education?': Moving Towards the Integration of Tertiary Education and Entrepreneurship; Cormac McMahon and Henk Huijser

7. The Establishment of Bahrain Polytechnic: Assumptions Questioned, Myths Exposed and Challenges Faced; Mohammed Al Daylami, Brian Bennison, Chris Coutts, Faisal Hassan, Jameel Hasan, Henk Huijser, Bryce McLoughlin, David McMaster and Fatima Wali

8. Three Decades of Digital ICT in Education: Deconstructing Myths and Highlighting Realities; Adriana Ornellas and Juana Sancho

9. Digital Literacy in Higher Education: The Rhetoric and the Reality; Lorelle J. Burton, Jane Summers, Jill Lawrence, Karen Noble and Peter Gibbings

10. Learners and Technology: Myths about Online Education; Elena Barbera Gregori

11. Dispelling Myths for Students: Alternative Ways of Thinking in Online Education; Federico Borges and Anna Forés