Flipping the Flipped Classroom—Student Preferences and Pedagogical Practice Towards Recuperating the Lecture-Based University Teaching Methodology
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.63385/ipt.v1i3.85Keywords:
Lecture-Based Teaching, Flipped Classroom, Teaching Cycle, Activity Integration, Pedagogy Strategies, Higher EducationAbstract
Under the pedagogical conditions of the ‘flipped classroom,’ personal mastery of the content material presented in a course is nearly irrelevant. Often, the ‘flipped classroom’ in its absolute form does not require any instructor to be expert in their subject area, but rather only in pedagogy. While the introduction of the flipped classroom model was valuable and useful, perhaps it was not as revolutionary as it was touted to be. Its almost uncritical embrace as an avant-garde methodology that ostensibly answered much empirical pedagogical research, and that promised to change the landscape of student participation and knowledge retention, was only matched by its frequent impracticability and concomitant quiet (if not shame-filled) dismissal/rejection by instructors in actual practice. The purpose of the present contribution is to survey relevant literature on integrated pedagogical practices in an effort to recover the still-valuable lecture model from its philosophical banishment by offering practice-based strategies based on student preferences across three sample higher education modules and on the insights of practice-researchers nominated by students for their efficacy. The practicality of the contribution lies with its potential usefulness to instructors who are facing real contextual barriers to flipped classroom implementation and who otherwise remain skilled lecturers.
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