CTL Auxin Session
Presented by: Prof Karin Baatjes, Recipient of SU Teaching Excellence Award: Developing Teacher Category (2019).
Topic: Teaching
and learning in the Theory-Practice Nexus
Date: 28 July 2020, 12h45 – 13h45
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For more information and to RSVP contact Juanita Layman: jlayman@sun.ac.za or 021 808 3717.
TOPIC:
Students find greater meaning in learning when they can apply
career specific contextual materials to theoretical content. To integrate academic and practical learning, a student must
learn to filter incoming information and incorporate these to prior knowledge
and experiences. This can be accomplished by frequent exposure to a variety of
relevant scenarios. By providing realistic examples and activities where
concepts can be practiced, one can ignite student motivation for learning and
help the student to move from abstract to concrete concepts. This is essential
for students to transcend from partial participation to full engagement.
Faculty who incorporate contextual learning activities in their teaching also
have the opportunity to model the career roles and the hidden curriculum of the
field
SPEAKER:
Karin Baatjes is an associate professor in Surgery and
is the head of the division of Clinical Anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine and
Health Sciences of Stellenbosch University. She qualified as Fellow of the
College of Surgeons of South Africa in 2004, completed MMed in Surgery in 2005
and PhD in Surgery in 2018. In 2018 and 2019, respectively, she completed the
SAFRI (Sub-Saharan African Faimer Regional Institute) fellowship and the
Scholarship of Educational leadership course. In 2019, she was awarded the
Teaching excellence award in the Developing teacher category. Prof Baatjes’s
career is a triangular blend of surgical care, health professionals’ education
and research, overarching these fields. Outside of her work environment, she
has a strong desire to improve food and hygiene insecurity from grassroots
level right up to postgraduate students and to support educational enterprises.
REFERENCES:
Prof Baatjes recommends the following articles on the
theory-practice nexus:
Koens, Franciska; Mann, Karen V.; Custers, Eugène J.F.M.; Ten Cate,
Olle T.J.. 2005. Analysing the Concept of Context in Medical Education. Medical
Education 39 (12): 1243–49. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02338.x. (Click here to download.)
Krause, Stephen J.; Waters, Cindy; Stuart, William, J. P.
E. Judson, Eugene; Ankeny, Casey J. and Smith, Bethany B. 2016. “Effect
of Contextualization of Content and Concepts on Students’ Course Relevance and
Value in Introductory Materials Classes.” ASEE Annual Conference and
Exposition, Conference Proceedings 2016-June (i). https://doi.org/10.18260/p.26894. (Click here to download.)
McMillan, Wendy J. 2010. Teaching for Clinical Reasoning - Helping
Students Make the Conceptual Links. Medical Teacher 32 (10) e436-e442. https://doi.org/10.3109/01421591003695303. (Click here to download.)