Abstract
This article uses findings from a project on engagement with graduate outcomes across higher education institutions in New Zealand to produce a toolkit for implementing graduate attributes in geography curricula. Key facets include strong leadership; academic developers to facilitate conversations about graduate attributes and teaching towards them; ownership of the process by the teachers; the development of a contextualized set of graduate attributes for the geography degree; curriculum mapping to promote alignment between graduate attributes, learning outcomes and assessment tasks; incorporating high-impact educational experiences and signature pedagogies to foster graduate attributes; the use of evaluative data to inform continual enhancements; and allowing at least five years for curriculum renewal to occur.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 254-266 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Journal of Geography in Higher Education |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 7 Mar 2016 |
Keywords
- Graduate outcomes
- graduate attributes
- toolkit
- practical
- curriculum change