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Course 2023-2024

PSFEM302 - Teaching in higher education [2023-2024] [FFDEM302]

  • 6 credits
  • 45h
  • 1st and 2nd quarter
Language of instruction: French / Français

Learning outcomes

C1 mastery of the didactics of the subject or subjects concerned or of the didactics applied to these subjects;  
 
C2 knowledge and understanding of the training environments in which you will be working and those in which your future students will be working;  
 
 
 
C3 the ability to support people in vocational training situations;  
 
C4 mastery of the specific aspects of teaching adults, and young adults in particular;  
 
C5 the ability to participate in the design and implementation of teacher training programmes;  
 
C6 the ability to observe, analyse and evaluate elements of professional teaching practice with a view to advising and helping to readjust such practice, drawing in particular on the results of scientific research in education, in the didactics of the subjects to be taught, in psychology, in the sociology of education and in gender studies, concerning in particular cultural diversity, socio-economic inequalities and gender;  
 
C7 the ability to carry out, individually and with peers, a critical and rigorous analysis of one's own practices and their impact on students and student success

Objectives

To enable students to discover and critically discuss the most innovative concepts in higher education pedagogy, to give a personal account of them in relation to their practices and to use these conceptual reading grids to decode a teaching situation and suggest improvements;   
 
explain their personal conceptions of teaching and learning in higher education and compare them with the results of research in the field;  
 
analyse and put into perspective current pedagogical problems in higher education in the light of the reading grids proposed during the course.

Content

The common thread running through the course is the analysis of failure in mass higher education and the factors associated with it, both on the student side and on the teaching side. This theme appears to be symptomatic of other dysfunctions and challenges in higher education. The choice of this theme is therefore justified by the fact that the analysis of the forms and factors of massive student failure will lead, throughout the course, to a more general questioning of the pedagogical methods used in this final stage of schooling. 
 
The various topics covered are as follows:
 
PART ONE: THE UNFORGIVING WORLD OF HIGHER EDUCATION
 
Chapter 1 The massification of student numbers (causes and educational consequences) 
 
Chapter 2 Failure to make the transition
 
Chapter 3 A (too) slow democratisation of access, success and pathways 
 
Chapter 4 Critical questions about what students actually achieve 
 
PART TWO: FROM THE STUDENT'S POINT OF VIEW 
 
Chapter 5 Socio-biographical and academic factors in student success 
 
Chapter 6 Motivation to study 
 
Chapter 7 The role of prior learning  
 
Chapter 8 The relationship with studies (including approach and epistemic beliefs) 
 
Chapter 9 The student's profession
 
PART THREE: OUTLINE OF A DIDACTIC APPROACH TO HIGHER EDUCATION 
 
Chapter 10 Higher education (also) has the students it deserves
 
Chapter 11 Identifying pre-requisites and measuring pre-requisites 
 
Chapter 12 Clarifying the learning contract
 
Chapter 13 Rooting learning in prior conceptions
 
Chapter 14 Providing support and feedback
 
Chapter 15 Promoting active methods
 
Chapter 16 Assessing learning
 
Chapter 17 Regulating teaching
 
Chapter 18 Managing large groups

 


Teaching methods

Lectures and occasional use of active methods (discussion, case studies, role-playing, etc.)

Evaluations

create an integrated file.

Recommended readings

The syllabus contains a large number of references. PowerPoint presentations will include more recent references as the course progresses. A recent dossier will be used regularly to report on current research perspectives that feed into higher education pedagogy: Numéro thématique de SPIRALE 69 (2022) « Actualités de la pédagogie universitaire » : https://spirale-edu-revue.fr/spip.php?rubrique201  

 

 

Language of instruction

French / Français

Location for course

NAMUR

Organizer

Faculté des sciences de l'éducation et de la formation

Degree of Reference

Master's Degree