Transitions to and from First-Year – Multiple Challenges for the First-Year Lecturer
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Transitions to and from First-Year –Multiple Challenges for the First-
Year Lecturer
UJ First-year Seminar
30 October 2014
Brenda Leibowitz
Different ways of thinking about transitions
Community Cultural Wealth (Tara Yosso):
Aspirational capital
Familial capital
Resistance capital
Linguistic capital
Navigational capital
Scaffolding
Building on local, indigenous knowledges
Different ways of thinking about transitions
Generic graduate attributes (Simon Barrie)
• 1. Precursor Conception;
• 2. Complement Conception;
• 3. Translation Conception;
• 4. Enabling Conception.
Different ways of thinking about transitions
Agency in interplay with structure and culture (Margaret Archer)
Different ways of thinking about agency
“One has to ask of ‘competence’ or ‘creativity’ – “Competence for what?” “Creativity of whom?” to ask these questions (even better, to answer them) is the beginning of an understanding of human potential and the constraints on its actualization”.
(Bernstein, 1990, p. 130)
Teaching approaches
• Rules
• Assessment focused
• Experiential learning opportunities
• Building block approach
• Collaborative learning
• Apprenticeship approach
Sources
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