Challenging, developing and valuing general staff: The action eXchange learning program
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
Murdoch University
Place of Publication
Perth, Western Australia
School
School of Community Services, Education and Social Sciences
RAS ID
2805
Abstract
Universities are complex if not at times contradictory organisations. On the one hand, they offer courses in a range of disciplines that provide cutting edge pedagogy in the theory and practice of various disciplines. On the other hand, when it comes to actually applying the same cutting edge theory to their own workplace professional development (PD) practices, there is sometimes a gap between the practice and the rhetoric. One example of this gap has been in the area of PD for general staff. Coaldrake and Stedman make the point that general staff "comprise nationally the majority of university employees". The paper describes an inevitable blurring of roles between academic and general staff as being a consequence of this change to the traditional roles that have previously delineated them. It makes sense then that investing in quality, better targeted PD for more than half of a university's staff is not only sensible, it is essential...
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Comments
Brown, C.L., Backhaus, A., Colvin, C.M. (2004). Challenging, developing and valuing general staff: The action eXchange learning program. In the Proceedings of the 13th Annual Teaching Learning Forum. Perth, Australia: Murdoch University. Available here