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Using currere to consider past and future landscapes of technology use in learning and teaching: a view from the Wales Collaborative for Learning Design (WCLD)

Sammy Chapman Orcid Logo, Gary Beauchamp Orcid Logo, Ross Evans, Gemma Zeeman, Nick Young, Emma Yhnell Orcid Logo, Nigel Wills, Chris Williams, Gareth Watkins, Bernie Tiddeman, Sion Owen Orcid Logo, Kaydee Owen Orcid Logo, Steve Osborne, Gwen Morgan, Sophie Meace-Williams, Lilian Martin, Jeff Lewis, Caroline Lewis Orcid Logo, Sue Layland, Panna Karlinger Orcid Logo, Mathew Jones Orcid Logo, Karl Jones, Carl Hughes, Sue Horder, Jessica Haines, Calum Gregory, Jonathan Giddy, Nigel Francis, Owen Davies, Tom Crick Orcid Logo, Julian Ayres Orcid Logo, Stephen Atherton

Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, Volume: 27, Issue: 1

Swansea University Authors: Ross Evans, Sion Owen Orcid Logo, Tom Crick Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.16922/wje.27.1.6

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This article examines the prior lived experiences and future potential aspirations of technology use through the perspective of a Welsh Government-funded project. The Wales Collaborative for Learning Design (WCLD) has 32 members from all 9 universities in Wales with a specific focus on technology in...

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Published in: Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education
ISSN: 2059-3708 2059-3716
Published: University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru 2025
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71524
Abstract: This article examines the prior lived experiences and future potential aspirations of technology use through the perspective of a Welsh Government-funded project. The Wales Collaborative for Learning Design (WCLD) has 32 members from all 9 universities in Wales with a specific focus on technology in learning and teaching. Through the autobiographical method of currere, the study aims to give attention to the previous experiences of each member from when they were once the learner; this being referred to as the regressive phase. The study also aims to explore the future landscape of technology use in learning and teaching, utilising the progressive phase of the currere method, to allow participants to wonder what could or might come to be. Once all individual fragments were collected, fragments referring to individual memories, stories, anecdotes and recollections, synthesis allowed any commonalities to be identified and theorised. The main finding of the research is that technology, and all various technologies, be treated as a tool with which teachers can choose to implement when they deem pedagogically appropriate, especially considering the affordances of technology that can transform learning and teaching opportunities.
Keywords: Currere, curriculum, pedagogy, technology, affordances, barriers, curriculum for Wales
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Issue: 1