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Title

'Playing' with trans-disciplinary discourses: experiences in a Business Capstone unit

Author(s)

Barut, Meropy;  Grey, Marianne;  Masli, Eryadi;  Woolley, Eleneth

Abstract

This paper explores the playful use of disciplinary discourses in a Capstone unit where both the students and teaching staff are working in trans-disciplinary teams. The focus of the classes is for students to investigate business issues through the use of cases where a Team Based Learning (TBL) approach is used (Michaelson, Knight & Fink, 2004). An important observation we have made is the way disciplinary discourses are changing, particularly through the impact of social networking and the role of peers in this dynamic site. To explore the ways our students are socialized, and knowledge is acquired and shared in trans-disciplinary discourses in the Capstone unit, we focus on a reflective blog that was established on the University Website Blackboard. We plan to show the impact of this reflective tool as an extension of TBL, as an assessment task in a formal academic setting, and to highlight the hybrid discourses that emerge, thus forming a bridge to the professional discourses of the workplace.

Publication type

Seminar, speech or other presentation

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Business and Enterprise

Source

Paper presented at 'Language in the disciplines: disciplinary discourses and the embedding of academic literacy skills within programs', an Academic Literacy Teaching and Research Network (ALTAR) Symposium, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, 24 November 2010

Publication year

2010

Keyword(s)

Business studies;  Capstone units;  Learning tools;  Team-based learning;  Transdisciplinary studies

Publisher

Swinburne University of Technology

Publisher URL

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/corporate/development/event.php?id=1794

Copyright

Copyright © 2010.