Dan pratt
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Professor |
Room: Ponderosa Annex G, Room 18 |
Phone: 604-822-4552 |
Fax: 604-822-4244 |
Email: dan.pratt@ubc.ca |
Sample Research Projects
Recent Publications
The Teaching Perspectives Inventory
My current research examines interactions of
the personal with the contextual, that is, ways in which a
person’s philosophy of teaching interacts with his or
her local context of work. As an indication of philosophy
of teaching a colleague and I (John Collins) have developed
a Teaching Perspectives Inventory, which is a 45-item instrument
that yields dominant and back-up perspectives on teaching.
As of December 1999, over 1000 teachers and educators involved
in adult and/or higher education have taken the instrument.
We now have a series of longitudinal studies underway in
which we examine the development of teaching perspectives
in such contexts as surgical training, teacher training, private
sector training, and higher education more generally. In each
case we are trying to understand the process of reflection
and the nature of transitions that accompany a shift in one’s
philosophy of teaching.
Some of the works in progress and available for viewing
include:
Pratt, D.D. and Collins, J.B. (2000). The Teaching Perspectives
Inventory: Developing and testing an instrument to assess
philosophical orientations to teaching. Proceedings of the
41st Adult Education Research Conference, Vancouver, British
Columbia, June. [click here]
Teaching Perspectives Summary: This page describes the five
perspectives. [click here]
Teaching Perspectives: Where did they come from: This page
gives a brief comment on the origin and research behind the
perspectives. [click here]
Transmission Perspective -- A snapshot: This is a sample
of detailed materials describing each perspective [click
here]
Sample items: If you want to see some of the items used in
the TPI, [click here]
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