'If you don't have a relationship with your tutor...you don't care about the subject': revisiting the role of the teacher - getting off the 'sideline' and 'meddling in the middle'.

We developed a pedagogy addressing both academic literacies and critical analysis where students would, with limited facilitation, actively engage with texts and each other. In this article we reflect on what the students who engaged with the pedagogy taught us: that teachers need to be much more th...

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Publicado en:Social Work Education Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 809 - 831
Autores principales: Fox, John Gerard, O'Maley, Pauline
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2023
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          Fox, John Gerard
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          Social Work Unit, School of Health and Social Development, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
          Retired, Formerly Academic Support and Development, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
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