Vega, Rodolfo Manuel
(2021)
A Consultant Self-Exploration: An Autoethnography Addressing Educational Change Efforts in Chilean Engineering Education.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
In this study I explore education consulting as a whole person learning experience, by applying autoethnography methodology. I focus my analytical attention to specific themes that impact my on-the-job learning, while working as an educational consultant in an undergraduate engineering curriculum redesign effort, under a competence-based education and credit system framework. I examine three key themes that emerged from my analysis of my experiences as an educational consultant: i) bias that appears to underlie the participants’ perceptions and attitudes toward the faculty’s role in the education process; ii) the politics of education curriculum reform, as seen from the perspective of an academic department; and iii) education consulting as a non-formal teaching and learning activity, as a way to incorporate all actors in redesign efforts. Each of these themes are presented here, in three main chapters that follow the first-person narrative of the autoethnography report style. I introduce autoethnography as a key research methodology, very well suited to achieve the goals of self-inquiry via systematic introspection, as the consultant’s metacognitive effort to highlight personal lessons learned from the job done.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Date: |
31 August 2021 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
6 May 2021 |
| Approval Date: |
31 August 2021 |
| Submission Date: |
13 July 2021 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
105 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
School of Education > Administrative and Policy Studies |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Autoethnography, autoethnographic education consulting, education consulting, higher education pedagogy, consulting in engineering education, whole person learning, autoethnography and self-transformation, education as welf-transformation |
| Date Deposited: |
31 Aug 2021 15:23 |
| Last Modified: |
31 Aug 2021 15:23 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/41425 |
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