Changing practice in HE: National policies, enhancement cultures and personal impetus

Saunders, Murray

Abstract

Drawing on recent evaluative research on the change process in Higher Education, the presentation will examine the way in which change processes unfold sector wide and
within institutions. The idea of levels can be understood as an implementation staircase.
Deliberate attempts to influence practice have at their core, an informal ‘theory of
change’ in which the strategies embody an idea of how change might be brought about.
At sector wide level, case examples of attempts by government to influence teaching and
learning practices will be analysed along with their underlying theories of change. At the
level of institutions and individuals, recent research has suggested that change processes
are shaped by personal theories of change and the change or enhancement identities
assumed by those engaged in a change process. Drawing on the way in which the
environment ‘conditions’ change processes, I will argue that there are types of cultural
environments and the practices they embody which are more able to support ‘deep
change’ cultures sponsored or engineered by those engaged in teaching itself.

Citation

Saunders, M. (2009, September). Changing practice in HE: National policies, enhancement cultures and personal impetus. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment Conference : Critical Voices, Critical Times, University of Salford

• Presentation Conference Type: Speech
• Conference Name: Education in a Changing Environment Conference : Critical Voices, Critical Times
• Conference Location: University of Salford
• Start Date: Sep 15, 2009
• End Date: Sep 16, 2009
• Deposit Date: Oct 13, 2009
• Keywords: Change processes
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