Category: Annotated Bibliography
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Developing Phenomenal Learning – A toolkit for implementing Phenomenon-Based Learning as part of a future-proofed SDG HE curriculum.
“This project introduces Phenomenon Based Learning (PhBL) as a pedagogic vehicle to build on the Education for Sustainable Development Guidance published by Advance HE and QAA. Having drawn upon global sources of evidence, including Universities of the Future, this project enabled collaboration between Staffordshire University and Harper Adams University, two providers with very different approaches, to test…
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Hicks, C. (2024, July 4). The Uncertainty. Drcathicks. https://www.drcathicks.com/post/the-uncertainty
This article… “Less-wrong, Uncertainty-honoring science acknowledges that our problems in the real world are more multidimensional than we would like. We learn to think of findings not as equally weighted static entities but as differently weighted, differently evidenced forms of knowing” https://www.drcathicks.com/post/the-uncertainty
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Justice, Daniel Heath (April, 2020). “Demanding Kinder, Gentler Classrooms Doesn’t Make You A Snowflake.” Link: https://thewalrus.ca/demanding-kinder-classrooms-doesnt-make-you-a-snowflake/
I read this article when I completed the University of British Columbia’s Teaching Development Program for New Faculty, and it has stayed with me since. The transformative approach that Daniel Heath Justice calls for, would require higher education to embrace uncertainty as necessarily a part of a humane pedagogy. We can never know what students,…
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Lazarus, M. D., & Stephens, G. C. (2024). Preparing Learners for Uncertainty in Health Professions. Monash University.
The current version is a pre-release and contains four chapters of our open access handbook for educators. The handbook relates to the concept of uncertainty tolerance, and describe its role in healthcare practice and education more broadly. The rest of this book will be released in 2024 and will include: Lazarus, M. D., & Stephens,…
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Capolla, L. M. (2024). Shaping Educational Strategies: A Literature Review on Uncertainty and the Unexpected. Education Sciences, 14(3), 309.
A key feature of contemporary times is the high degree of complexity that impacts all spheres and aspects of today’s society, particularly within education. This complexity, deriving from a postdigital world in a polycrisis, causes continuous eventualities and results in these conditions of uncertainty. This contribution reviews the present literature on the issues of the…
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Fried, A. (2024). Unstructuring for insight: The legal profession in an age of AI & social change. Law Teacher, 58(1), 74.
Link to paper This paper explores the importance of teaching law students how to engage in a process of “unstructuring” a well-structured problem in order to recapture information about the facts and context of the problem that were de-emphasized as irrelevant in the initial structuring process. By converting a well-structured problem into an ill-structured one,…
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Abegglen, S., Burns, T., & Sinfield, S. (Eds.) (2023). Higher education collaboration: A new ecology of practice.
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350334083 “Collaboration in Higher Education,” an open-access book, addresses the pressing need for collaboration and partnership in higher education. As institutions strive to maintain their competitive edge in a global, neoliberal education market, students and staff often face alienating practices that foster an individualistic, audit-driven, and surveillance-oriented culture. This issue has been further intensified by…
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Stanley Budner, N. Y. (1962). Intolerance of ambiguity as a personality variable. Journal of Personality, 30(1), 29–50.
This is a condensed version of Budner’s 1960 PhD thesis. It posits that people have a given tolerance for ambiguity and provides a test for exploring that in an individual. Here’s a good version of the quiz on its own. Stanley Budner, N. Y. (1962). Intolerance of ambiguity as a personality variable. Journal of Personality,…
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Stephens, G. C., Sarkar, M., & Lazarus, M. D. (2022). ‘A whole lot of uncertainty’: A qualitative study exploring clinical medical students’ experiences of uncertainty stimuli. Medical Education, 56(7), 736–746.
The article opens up with a review of the current research on Uncertainty Tolerance and a review of the existing research on the subject related to students in medical educational contexts. This qualitative study looks at the different types of uncertainty described by medical students in interviews and categorizes them into various forms of uncertainty…
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Rittel, H. W. J., & Webber, M. M. (1973). Dilemmas in a general theory of planning. Policy Sciences, 4(2), 155–169.
This article lays out all of the uncertainty implicit in a certainty kind of problem. The author’s describe ‘Wicked Problems’. These problems do not lend themselves to linear problem solving techniques. There are ten ‘rules’ for a wicked problem, here I’ll include a section from rule 3. Solutions to wicked problems are not true-or-false, but…