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K. Sivakumar (Kishore)

Lecturer - PhD Candidate

About Me

I am an educator, engineer, and researcher, and I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the BMS and a lecturer at UCT-ATLAS. I have a bachelor's in Aeronautical engineering with a double master's in Education Technology and Research. My research interest is quite interdisciplinary and centred around engineering education. The topic of my research is on Higher-Order Academic Skills for Interdisciplinary Research for Engineering Education. I teach and co-coordinate the Semester 1 challenge-based design project course at ATLAS. 

Expertise

Arts & Humanities
# Constructivist
# Education
# Empiricist
# Epistemological
# Epistemology
# Learning Theory
# Philosophers Of Science
# Teaching

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Research

The research aims to characterise and optimise the curriculum and pedagogy of the ATLAS-UCT program, to foster higher-order academic skills namely creative problem solving, critical-thinking, interdisciplinary thinking, and communication, etc. This study majorly takes advantage of quasi-experimental design for research by employing both qualitative and quantitative experimental approaches through instruments such as self-reflective questionnaires, experience sampling, surveys, psychometrics, formative and  summative novel assessments. Our methodology will unfold in two phases. The first phase will serve to identify and characterise higher-order academic skills and competencies. Phase 2: “Execution and Evaluation of the Curriculum and Pedagogy”. The overall aim of these two phases is to identify a set of best practices to inculcate intended skills in students.

Publications

Other Contributions
Boon, Mieke  and  Orozco, Mariana  and  Sivakumar, Kishore  (2022)  Epistemological and educational issues in teaching practice-oriented scientific research: Roles for philosophers of science

Contact Details

 
 

Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 4107
Hallenweg 17
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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University of Twente
University College Twente
Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 4107
Hallenweg 17
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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Mailing Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn  4107
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

Organisations

University of Twente Drienerlolaan 5
7522 NB Enschede
+31 (0)53 489 9111
info@utwente.nl
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