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- Title
The Community of Practice Curriculum Development (CoP_CD) approach to develop self-efficacy and confidence in naturopathic medicine curriculum development.
- Authors
Bugarcic, Andrea
- Abstract
The gap in "teaching the teacher" across health academic has been bridged in different ways that allow development of generic skills in curriculum development but is limited in developing these skills in the operational and education contexts of the specific curriculum development and institutional operational environment. Within the Centre we have recently developed a Masters of Advanced Naturopathic Medicine using a Community of Practice approach. Here, we brought together theoretical knowledge of curriculum development, pedagogies and novel 6x6 delivery model at SCU to develop subjects in the first naturopathic medicine postgraduate course. While our subject developers were experts in their respective fields, they had limited knowledge and experience in developing postgraduate curriculum nested in these specific pedagogies. To assist bringing together curriculum development theory and their expert content knowledge within the new operational delivery model we designed the Community of Practice_Curriculum Development (CoP_CD). CoP_CD included weekly meetings across a period of 20 weeks with 4-week upskilling in the curriculum development theory and pedagogies at the start, followed by introduction to the appropriate educational framework and specific deliverables and further upskilling in assessment design and delivery. As CoP_CD was a professional development setting that aimed to develop self-efficacy and confidence of subject developers, the developers were asked validated questions pre- and post-CoP_CD to ascertain development of these skills in the context of postgraduate curriculum development. The outcomes of these questionnaires and the focus group will be presented for audience to consider this focuses approach to collaborative and in situ curriculum development.
- Publication
Australian Journal of Herbal & Naturopathic Medicine, 2021, Vol 33, Issue 1, p24
- ISSN
2209-119X
- Publication type
Academic Journal