Developing Effective Part-Time Teachers in Higher Education: New Approaches to Professional Development

ISBN-13: 9780415517089 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 232 str.

Fran Beaton; Amanda Gilbert

Opis

This text, drawing on the voices of part-time teachers and the expertise of those who support them, considers whole-institution strategies to promote individual and collective professional development.

Spis treści

Preface  Acknowledgements  1. Introduction: The Bigger Picture: the expansion of part-time teaching in HE and its consequences  Section 1. Context: An Overview of the Nature and Motivation of Part-time Teachers 2. Who are these people and why are they important?  3. Determining the support needs of casual staff at the frontline  Section 2. Policy and Practice: First part - Developing Policy and Practice to Support Part-Time Teachers  4. Policy and practice to support part-time teachers at scale: the experience of the UK's Open University  Second part - Developing Part-time Programmes to Support Part-time Teachers  5. What makes a really good support programme for part-time lecturers in Higher Education?   6. Developing scholarly tutors  7. How do we know it works?  Third part- Focus on different types of part-time teachers  8. Welcome on Board  9. Tutoring Online  10. All take and no give?  Section 3. Implications and Future Directions 11. Building sustainable frameworks for the engagement and development of casual teaching staff  12. Academic Leadership: integrating part-timers into a team  13. Future directions

O autorze

Fran Beaton is Senior Lecturer in Higher Education and Academic Practice at the University of Kent, UK.　 Amanda Gilbert is Lecturer in Academic Development at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.