TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching about volcanoes
T2 - Practices, perceptions and implications for professional development
AU - Jolley, Alison
AU - Dohaney, Jacqueline
AU - Kennedy, Ben
N1 - Funding Information:
Thank you to all of the instructors who completed the questionnaire and shared their experiences of learning and teaching in volcanology. The distribution of the paper questionnaire was aided by volunteers who staffed our booth at Cities on Volcanoes 2018. The distribution of the digital questionnaire was facilitated by the Volcano Listserv. Comments from two reviewers and an editor greatly improved this manuscript. Kennedy would like to acknowledge the ECLIPSE Supervolcano project funded by the MBIE Endeavour Fund NZ. This research was approved by the University of British Columbia Office of Research Ethics (approval #H18-02214). We thank Professor Sara Harris for her assistance in preparing the human ethics application.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/1/10
Y1 - 2022/1/10
N2 - Volcanology education is important for the development of geoscientists and scientifically literate citizens. We surveyed 55 volcanology instructors to determine their learning and teaching practices, perceptions of academic development, and educational support needs. Respondents reported using a wide range of practices and tools, but lectures, field experiences, maps, rock samples, academic literature, and inherited teaching materials are the most common. Respondents valued educational support from others (e.g. talking with colleagues and students, consulting with learning and teaching specialists) over conducting their own investigations. However, they did not report engaging in as many of these activities as they valued. Respondents requested more support in resource sharing and collation, conference workshops, and co-creation of resources and educational research. We suggest that instructors and academic development staff work together to share and build knowledge in the learning and teaching of volcanology in higher education and to improve student learning outcomes.
AB - Volcanology education is important for the development of geoscientists and scientifically literate citizens. We surveyed 55 volcanology instructors to determine their learning and teaching practices, perceptions of academic development, and educational support needs. Respondents reported using a wide range of practices and tools, but lectures, field experiences, maps, rock samples, academic literature, and inherited teaching materials are the most common. Respondents valued educational support from others (e.g. talking with colleagues and students, consulting with learning and teaching specialists) over conducting their own investigations. However, they did not report engaging in as many of these activities as they valued. Respondents requested more support in resource sharing and collation, conference workshops, and co-creation of resources and educational research. We suggest that instructors and academic development staff work together to share and build knowledge in the learning and teaching of volcanology in higher education and to improve student learning outcomes.
KW - early career researcher
KW - educational development
KW - higher education
KW - postgraduate
KW - undergraduate
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123784345&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.30909/vol.05.01.1132
DO - 10.30909/vol.05.01.1132
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85123784345
VL - 5
SP - 11
EP - 32
JO - Volcanica
JF - Volcanica
IS - 1
ER -