What do planners do? Define your discipline to drive undergraduate curriculum renewal
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Paper/Presentation Title | What do planners do? Define your discipline to drive undergraduate curriculum renewal |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Basson, Marita (Author) and Dowling, David (Author) |
Editors | Featherstone, Jeffrey |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 49th International Society of City and Regional Planners Congress (ISOCARP 2013) |
Number of Pages | 12 |
Year | 2013 |
Place of Publication | The Hague, Netherlands |
ISBN | 9789490354220 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://www.eventure-online.com/eventure/publicAbstractView.do?id=226081&congressId=7180 |
Conference/Event | 49th World Congress of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP 2013): Frontiers of Planning: Evolving and Declining Models of City Planning Practice |
Event Details | 49th World Congress of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP 2013): Frontiers of Planning: Evolving and Declining Models of City Planning Practice Event Date 01 to end of 04 Oct 2013 Event Location Brisbane, Australia |
Abstract | The debate about the nature of planning continues as the profession seeks to maintain currency in an ever changing world, where environmental, educational, societal, and technological changes are rapid and often unpredictable. In these dynamic contexts, universities are expected to ensure that planning education programs continue to produce competent professional planning graduates who can adapt their practice to cope with change. The question is: how should universities decide what planning reality to prepare students for? Is it one where planners are scarce and graduates need to be job ready or is it a reality where planners are change managers who use higher order thinking skills and systems theories to guide their practice? Or, is it a mix of these separate realities? To prevent a skewed definition of the nature of the discipline it is important that all of the stakeholders have an opportunity to freely and equally contribute in any process used to define the planning discipline. The authors used the inclusive Define Your Discipline (DYD) Stakeholder Consultation Process in a pilot study in Queensland to create a draft Graduate Capability Framework for planning degree programs. Once complete, the Framework could be used to inform not only curriculum renewal, but also professional accreditation processes. |
Keywords | capability frameworks; graduate attributes; Define Your Discipline; accreditation; planning education |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 330402. History and theory of the built environment (excl. architecture) |
390102. Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development | |
330401. Community planning | |
Public Notes | © 2013 ISOCARP. This publication is copyright. It may be reproduced in whole or in part for the purposes of study, research, or review, but is subject to the inclusion of an acknowledgment of the source. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Engineering and Surveying |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q2301/what-do-planners-do-define-your-discipline-to-drive-undergraduate-curriculum-renewal
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