| Description |
xiv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Mapping our higher education project / Melanie Walker -- 2. Action research for equity in teaching and learning / Melanie Walker -- 3. Collaboration with/in a critical community of practice / Melanie Walker -- 4. Introducing a mentoring programme / Judy Wilkinson -- 5. Using debates in developing students' critical thinking / Chris Warhurst -- 6. Engaging a larage first year class / Quintin Cutts -- 7. Measuring performance: some alternative indicators / Alison Phipps -- 8. Designing a new course / Judy Wilkinson -- 9. Learning independently through project work / Mike Gonzalez -- 10. Reconstructing professionalism in university teaching: doing other/wise / Melanie Walker |
| Summary |
At the heart of this book is a small group of academics from very different disciplines making sense of their teaching situations. We witness each of their struggles and celebrations in designing a new course, engaging a lrage first year class, introducing a mentoring programme, nurturing independent learning through project work, using debates to develop students' critical thinking, and evaluating the success of their teaching. This book is the story of a higher education project, and central to the story are the attempts of university teachers to enact a critical professionalism in their everyday lives in teaching and learning; and also their development of a shared and collaborative dialogue. Each of the team seeks not only to improve their practice of teaching but also to explore amongst themselves what kind of professional they want to be and how to realize it in their work with students. The book reveals how academics working together on researching their own teaching can both improve their students' learning and start to redefine their own professional roles.5 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
College teachers -- Professional relationships -- Great Britain.
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College teaching -- Great Britain.
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| Author |
Walker, Melanie.
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Open University.
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Society for Research into Higher Education.
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| LC no. |
00050172 |
| ISBN |
0335208177 |
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0335208169 paperback |
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