Arts & Humanities' Undergraduate Dissertations: Regenerating Early Researcher Socialization for Diverse Futures (UK Perspectives)
Gunn, V.A. (2013) Arts & Humanities' Undergraduate Dissertations: Regenerating Early Researcher Socialization for Diverse Futures (UK Perspectives). In: Supervising and Writing a Good Undergraduate Dissertation. Bentham Science Publishers, pp. 149-186. ISBN 9781608051793
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Creators/Authors: | Gunn, V.A. |
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Editors: | Editors GSA Username ORCID Donnelly, R. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Dallat, J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Fitzmaurice, M. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED |
Abstract: | In this discursive chapter, an argument is established for revisiting how the undergraduate dissertation in the Arts & Humanities is placed within the whole of a program in the light of changes to the nature of being an early career researcher. Directed at academics, graduate teaching assistants and students, it provides the starting point for a discussion about how to redesign dissertation processes in such a way that students are enabled to play to their strongest researcher orientations. It does this by reviewing the situation of the dissertation in the light of the research-teaching nexus, changes to early career researcher discourses and experiences, and employability. It establishes as a key concept the importance of researcher orientations (towards: the theoretical, civic engagement, problem-solving policy, or anticipatory action and innovation) in student learning within a research intensive environment, and reviews the efficacy of the dissertation as an assessment type that materializes research-teaching linkages. The chapter suggests ways for reconsidering the dissertation within a set of pathways through the degree which plays to the researcher strengths of undergraduate students. |
Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/9781608051762113010013 |
Output Type: | Book Section |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Arts & Humanities, assessment, civic engagement, discourse, employability, orientations, research-teaching linkages, researcher orientations, pathways, student as producer. |
Schools and Departments: | Learning & Teaching |
Dates: | Date Date Type 2013 Published |
Status: | Published |
Identification Number: | 10.2174/9781608051762113010013 |
Output ID: | 4491 |
Deposited By: | Prof Vicky Gunn |
Deposited On: | 05 May 2016 15:34 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2018 09:43 |