International Perspectives on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: Improving Knowledge and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138973206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str.

Alan Skelton;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Teaching Excellence in Higher Education provides a guide for all those supporting, promoting and trying to achieve teaching excellence in higher education and sets the scene for teaching excellence as a field for serious investigation and critical enquiry.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Conceptual challenges  1. Excellence and the Good Society  2. Braided practice: the place of scholarly inquiry in teaching excellence  3. Beyond performance in teaching excellence  4. Teaching, discipline, net-work  5. Integrating research and teaching: understanding excellence  Part 2: Policy and discourse  6. The demotic turn - excellence by fiat  7. Policy discourses about teaching excellence in a transforming South Africa  8. Critiquing excellence: undergraduate research for all students?  9. Tertiary teaching matters: political economy of a New Zealand centre for tertiary teaching excellence  10. Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in England: recognising, celebrating and promoting excellence?  Part 3: Development initiatives  11. National strategies for promoting excellence in teaching: a critical review 12. Teaching excellence in higher education in Japan: an evolving agenda  13. Teaching excellence in context: drawing from a socio-cultural approach  14. The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme 2000-2006: Rest In Peace?  15. Exploring teaching excellence in Canada: an interrogation of common practices and policies  16. Exploring and developing excellence: towards a community of praxis  Conclusion

O autorze

Alan Skelton is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK. He undertakes critical research investigations into higher education pedagogy and is the author of Understanding Teaching Excellence in Higher Education, published by Routledge in 2005.