Strategic Pedagogic Development at the Chalmers University of Technology

This paper focuses on how directors of academic institutes within a large university, Chalmers university of technology, think about and regard questions concerning pedagogical development and research. The aim is to find out how the directors intend to integrate pedagogical issues and pedagogical discussions in the institutes and into the teachers´ teaching and learning activities. The directors of the institutes are a very important group to reach since they have the operative responsibility, control and surveillance of what is going on. The method used in this project is interviews with open questions. The intention is to highlight the pedagogical questions within the institutes with a specific interest in how the directors regard the organizational development of pedagogical issues. Furthermore there is an intention to throw light on parameters which are important to notice when starting up strategic pedagogic development. The goal is to start a process directed at sustainable, strategic, pedagogical development at Chalmers.

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