Description
Book SynopsisTeaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education offers a combination of critical perspectives and practical advice that is ideally suited for individuals interested in enhancing their practice through analysis and critique. The aim is to promote a critical understanding of one's own practices: to foster personal and professional formation through a reflexive engagement with one''s environment and circumstances. At a practical level this means to continuously think about how to adjust practice rather than following a formulaic approach derived from any particular educational theory.
Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education argues that academics can find space for their own agency in the midst of institutional policies and practices that serve to frame, as well as delimit and constrain, what counts as good academic work in teaching and research. This text bridges a gap between those books that provide a high-level analysis of contemporary higher education,
Trade Review
"The role of universities in today’s world and how they relate—or should relate—to governments, economies, communities, and industries is the subject of wide debate. The outcomes of that debate will influence the working lives of academics. Rather than passively await those outcomes, Teaching, Learning, and Research in Higher Education: A Critical Approach inspires academics to become agents of change. The book provides concrete suggestions and encouragement for how academics might “catch up” and prosper in this new reality."
—The Review of Higher Education
Table of ContentsIllustrations
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Perspectives on Quality Teaching
3. Reconceptualising the Development of University Teaching Expertise
4. Framing Teacher-Learner Relationships
5. Learning Groups
6. Teaching for Diversity
7. Assessment
8. Promoting Workplace-Oriented Learning
9. Learning in the Digital Age
10. Postgraduate Research Education
11. Teaching and Research
References
Index
