Enhancing higher education transitions through negotiated engagements of learning experiences: lessons from a pre-undergraduate preparatory program language education course

Willans, Julie and Harreveld, R. E. (Bobby) and Danaher, Patrick Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2289-7774 (2003) Enhancing higher education transitions through negotiated engagements of learning experiences: lessons from a pre-undergraduate preparatory program language education course. Queensland Journal of Educational Research, 19 (1). pp. 42-50. ISSN 1329-0703

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Abstract

McInnis (2001) has identified three key challenges for universities in maximising student engagement with the undergraduate experience: curriculum, learning community, and infrastructure and support. This paper demonstrates how the curriculum challenge is being addressed in the Language and Learning course in the STEPS pre-undergraduate preparatory program at Central Queensland University. The paper pays particular attention to the language education curriculum – with its focus on learning styles, brain-based learning, critical awareness and skill development – as it equips students to engage with ‘university speak’, critical self-reflection and negotiation of individual and institutional expectations of university.

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Item Type:	Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C)
Refereed:	Yes
Item Status:	Live Archive
Additional Information:	Published version deposited with blanket permission of publisher.
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre:	Historic - Faculty of Education (Up to 30 Jun 2013)
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre:	Historic - Faculty of Education (Up to 30 Jun 2013)
Date Deposited:	16 May 2008 03:00
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2013 22:50
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Australia, Central Queensland University, higher education transitions, language education course, learning experiences, pre-undergraduate programs, preparatory programs, STEPS
Fields of Research (2008):	16 Studies in Human Society > 1608 Sociology > 160809 Sociology of Education 13 Education > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy > 130204 English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) 13 Education > 1399 Other Education > 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
Fields of Research (2020):	39 EDUCATION > 3902 Education policy, sociology and philosophy > 390203 Sociology of education 39 EDUCATION > 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy > 390104 English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) 39 EDUCATION > 3999 Other Education > 399999 Other education not elsewhere classified
URI:	http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/3271

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