Fortune, Niamh and Dippre, Ryan and Dvorakova, Lucie and Farrell, Alison and Weresh, Melissa and Yakovchuk, Nadya
(2021)
Beyond the University: Towards Transfer.
In:
Emerging Issues IV: Changing Times, Changing Contexts.
Educational Developers in Ireland Network (EDIN), pp. 128-147.
ISBN 9781900454797
Abstract
This chapter explores students’ experience of transfer as a worked
example of our assertion that a deliberate focus on transfer of
learning beyond the university could be part of the new normal for
higher education and could contribute to student success.
Specifically, the article examines how students experience writing
transfer beyond the university using a portion of the data which
we gathered as part of a Froebel Department of Primary and Early
Childhood Education Maynooth University case study on this
topic, which was in turn part of a large international multi-institutional study on writing beyond the university (Elon
University, Writing Beyond the University Research Seminar); the
case study in full is reported in Writing Beyond the University:
Preparing Lifelong Learners for Lifewide Writing. The purpose of our
research was to explore how student writers make connections
and navigate transitions between academic setting writing
(writing done in the University) and writing beyond the university
in professional settings. In order to answer this question, we
worked with a group of 4th year undergraduate students (n 60)
who completed a questionnaire pre- and post-professional
placement. We mapped students’ experience of writing transfer
beyond the university using an activity theory framework for
understanding transfer and our findings. We suggest implications
of the findings, which we believe could have applicability beyond
writing to curriculum design, assessment, workplace readiness,
employability and student success.
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Book Section
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| Additional Information: |
Recommended Citation: Keane, M., McAvinia, C. and O’Sullivan, Í. (eds) (2021) Emerging Issues IV: Changing Times, Changing Context. Educational Developers in Ireland Network (EDIN): https://www.edin.ie/?page_id=421. This publication is licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlikeCC
BY-NC-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) |
| Keywords: |
Transfer; Academic Writing; Writing Beyond the University (WBU); Student Success; Placement; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education |
| Item ID: |
15303 |
| Depositing User: |
Niamh Fortune
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| Date Deposited: |
21 Jan 2022 17:18 |
| Publisher: |
Educational Developers in Ireland Network (EDIN) |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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| Use Licence: |
This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available
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