LTEC Post-Festival Publication: Developing Authentic Practitioners “practice”, “identity”, “community”.

Power, Jess; Whitnall, Davina; Grayson, Nicola

Abstract

Our post-festival special edition publication is a collection of papers and audio poster from the University of Salford’s Learning and Teaching Festival 2023. The festival brought together Salford’s learning and teaching community with over 130 individuals in attendance. The two-day event had a schedule packed with activity which embraced our theme of “developing authentic practitioners”. At Salford we talk about “practitioner” using terms such as effective, sustained, attested and strategic leading within our career framework. At the festival we explored this in the context of authentic “practice”, “identity”, and “community” which under pinned our historic institutional initiative “Enabling Student Success” launched in Spring 2020.

Common threads throughout the papers and posters selected for this special edition are the value of integrated learning to develop confidence to promote professional values within respective disciplines. Developing rapport with all stakeholders was identified as a second theme which under pinned professional identity providing the grounding for life-wide learning. Authentic practice was woven throughout our special edition expressed through the many examples of inclusive approaches to learning which contributed to the wellbeing of staff and students. Our final theme of authenticity was brought to the forefront through digital capacity and currency which enhanced learning, value and reach as a creative form of intellectual inquiry.

• Journal Article Type: Editorial
• Acceptance Date: Feb 15, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Feb 15, 2024
• Deposit Date: Feb 23, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 28, 2024
• Journal: Innovative Practice in Higher Education
• Electronic ISSN: 2044-3315
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Issue: Salford LTEC Special Edition February 2024
• Keywords: LTEC Post-Festival Publication: Developing Authentic Practitioners “practice”, “identity”, “community”
• Publisher URL: https://journals.staffs.ac.uk/index.php/ipihe/index