Deconstructing the Graduate Seminar

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2015-06

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Talent development through innovative graduate education is a primary focus of national and international governments and their university funding agencies, and a contested construct. This ethnographic study examines current Canadian English- and French-language graduate seminar design and teaching practices in faculties of education. A series of interconnected discernible characteristics of graduate seminar design and teaching practices are illustrated on a Cartesian plane, where the (x) axis provides a continuum from professor-led to student-led activities and the (y) axis provides a continuum from knowledge advancement to knowledge application. Implications for talent development through innovative graduate education are discussed.

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Graduate seminar, Teaching practice, Knowledge advancement, Knowledge application

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Parchoma, G., Power, M. "Deconstructing the Graduate Seminar" (2015) In Preciado Babb, P., Takeuchi, M., & Lock, J. (Eds.). Proceedings of the IDEAS: Designing Responsive Pedagogy Conference, pp. 1-10-xx. Calgary, Canada: Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1880/50854

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