Prospects of cosmopolitan classrooms within a Malaysian university / Jamiah Baba and David Beckett

This paper examines lecturers’ practices in adult teaching and learning in University X. We use this analysis to think about better learning for adults in a cosmopolitan world. In our fi eldwork, teaching is viewed as “a complex set of relational exchanges between heterogeneous and differentially po...

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Main Authors: Baba, Jamiah, Beckett, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ACRULeT, Faculty of Education & UiTM Press 2013
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Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12350/
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spelling uitm-123502016-09-30T09:18:54Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12350/ Prospects of cosmopolitan classrooms within a Malaysian university / Jamiah Baba and David Beckett Baba, Jamiah Beckett, David Professional aspects of teaching and school administrators. Vocational guidance Malaysia Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education Malaysia This paper examines lecturers’ practices in adult teaching and learning in University X. We use this analysis to think about better learning for adults in a cosmopolitan world. In our fi eldwork, teaching is viewed as “a complex set of relational exchanges between heterogeneous and differentially positioned human subjects” (Luke, 2004, p. 1429), and how these can be fruitfully accommodated in the classrooms by facilitation of understandings of each others’ circumstances. We show aspects of universality and shared values that Appiah (2006) advocates in his notion of Cosmopolitanism. We claim that in teaching Malaysian adults, lecturers need to recognise and can build upon the cosmopolitan nature of the pedagogical relationships formed within their classrooms. ACRULeT, Faculty of Education & UiTM Press 2013 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12350/1/AJ_JAMIAH%20BABA%20AJUE%2013%201.pdf Baba, Jamiah and Beckett, David (2013) Prospects of cosmopolitan classrooms within a Malaysian university / Jamiah Baba and David Beckett. Asian Journal of University Education (AJUE), 9 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 1823-7797
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topic Professional aspects of teaching and school administrators. Vocational guidance
Malaysia
Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
Malaysia
spellingShingle Professional aspects of teaching and school administrators. Vocational guidance
Malaysia
Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
Malaysia
Baba, Jamiah
Beckett, David
Prospects of cosmopolitan classrooms within a Malaysian university / Jamiah Baba and David Beckett
description This paper examines lecturers’ practices in adult teaching and learning in University X. We use this analysis to think about better learning for adults in a cosmopolitan world. In our fi eldwork, teaching is viewed as “a complex set of relational exchanges between heterogeneous and differentially positioned human subjects” (Luke, 2004, p. 1429), and how these can be fruitfully accommodated in the classrooms by facilitation of understandings of each others’ circumstances. We show aspects of universality and shared values that Appiah (2006) advocates in his notion of Cosmopolitanism. We claim that in teaching Malaysian adults, lecturers need to recognise and can build upon the cosmopolitan nature of the pedagogical relationships formed within their classrooms.
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author Baba, Jamiah
Beckett, David
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Beckett, David
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title Prospects of cosmopolitan classrooms within a Malaysian university / Jamiah Baba and David Beckett
title_short Prospects of cosmopolitan classrooms within a Malaysian university / Jamiah Baba and David Beckett
title_full Prospects of cosmopolitan classrooms within a Malaysian university / Jamiah Baba and David Beckett
title_fullStr Prospects of cosmopolitan classrooms within a Malaysian university / Jamiah Baba and David Beckett
title_full_unstemmed Prospects of cosmopolitan classrooms within a Malaysian university / Jamiah Baba and David Beckett
title_sort prospects of cosmopolitan classrooms within a malaysian university / jamiah baba and david beckett
publisher ACRULeT, Faculty of Education & UiTM Press
publishDate 2013
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12350/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12350/1/AJ_JAMIAH%20BABA%20AJUE%2013%201.pdf
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