Inside Education On 103.2 Dublin City Fm

On this week's podcast I address the topic of academic integrity, a concern at all levels of the education system. My guest is Professor Diane Pecorari from the City University of Hong Kong, who is an expert in this area. Among the topics we discuss on the episode are the following: Intertextuality – borrowing from earlier texts Plagiarism involves deception Plagiarism inside and outside education settings Accidental “plagiarism” and the need to differentiate it from deliberate deception Advocating a pedagogical response to plagiarism (punishing versus coaching and supporting) How widespread plagiarism is in higher education settings Causes of plagiarism Students may feel inadequate to a task facing them because of the expansion of access to university education and increasingly educating students through a language that is not their own leading to plagiarism Preventing plagiarism – rules, detection mechanisms, penalties; admitting students with proficiency in the language of instruction and with suf