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Book SynopsisThis book explores disciplinary teaching excellence through a diverse range of student-staff partnership research projects. Despite being a highly contested term, ‘teaching excellence’ is something that universities aspire to and are expected to have. However, the editors and contributors argue that not only are definitions of excellence often broad and generic, but they lack nuanced understandings of disciplinary excellence in higher education. This book begins by unpacking some of these contested definitions of teaching excellence, followed by a series of co-authored chapters produced by students and staff who have undertaken research projects where they examine teaching excellence in their respective disciplinary areas. These chapters demonstrate that teaching excellence may be better understood as a process of becoming that is achieved through partnership between teachers and students. This book will be of interest and value to students, educators, and policy-makers concerned about teaching excellence, as well as scholars of student-staff partnerships.
Table of ContentsForeword; Charmagne Barnes
Chapter 1: Preface
Laura Barnett, Kieran Balloo, and Marion Heron
Chapter 2: Exploring ‘excellence’ in disciplinary contexts through student-staff partnerships
Laura Barnett, Marion Heron, Kieran Balloo, Malina Pricop and Sophie Williams
Chapter 3: What teaching excellence means to undergraduate students in their discipline
Alfred Thumser and Julia Matyjasiak
Chapter 4: Evaluating teaching excellence from a disciplinary perspective
Charlotte Foreman and Ali Musawi
Chapter 5: Exploring notions of excellence in tutorials and lectures within the discipline
Vasco Gabriel and Michelle Ly
Chapter 6: Students as Co-Creators of Visual Mnemonics using LEGO: an evaluation of revision sessions using an adapted Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) methodology.
Debbie Gooch, Rachel Stead, Daisy Haywood and Lewis Jerrom
Chapter 7: Promoting student engagement with mandatory course requirements
Lisa Blazhevski, Orlando Caetano Nicola Dallimore
Chapter 8: Exploring teaching excellence in vocational training and acting: what role does it play in enabling student success?
Sam Digney and Ryan Anstey
Chapter 9: Exploring how staff and students perceive captured content as a measure of teaching excellence
Lauren Regan, Iman Ezidy and Faiz Addad
Chapter 10: Improving the satisfaction of Chinese-educated students at a UK university
Tom Bond and Kristy Yeung
Chapter 11: International student collaborations to achieve teaching excellence in higher education
Alireza Behnejad and Ramsha Saleem
Chapter 12: Student-teacher partnership: a symbiotic co-creation of learning in Surrey International Institute (SII-DUFE)
Jashim Khan, Tang Yuqing, Zhang, Yuheng, Yuan Yue
Chapter 13: Creating ‘excellent’ partnerships: reflections from authors working in partnership
All Partner Authors, Laura Barnett, Kieran Balloo, and Marion Heron
Chapter 14: Conclusion: Exploring pedagogic health of the university linked to teaching excellence using student-staff partnerships
Ian Kinchin
