University Lecturers' Concept of their Role

ABSTRACT This study presents a descriptive model of lecturers' concepts of their role drawn from a case study of ten schools in a large Australian university. It identifies the perceptual frame within which lecturers' intentions are formulated. and which drive the strategies they adopt. The lecturers' responses focussed on their concepts of the nature of learning, their perceptions of the learners, their sense of responsibility towards their students and to their own professional knowledge field. These were shown to depend on the forms of feedback from the environment which they perceive and to which they attend, and along with their interpretations, were the means by which lecturer thinking about teaching and learning was educed.