Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education: A Critical Approach

ISBN-13: 9780415962728 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 214 str.

Mark Tennant;Cathi McMullen;Dan Kaczynski

Opis

Teaching, 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, the more practical texts on how to be a good teacher in higher education, and those texts which aim to improve teaching through better understanding of the learning process. Topical chapters include: Teacher-learner relationship, Learning groups, Practice-oriented learning, Teaching for diversity, e-learning, Assessment, Approaches to Staff Development, Quality assurance, Supervision and Research education, Doing research, and Teaching & Research. A must-have resource for higher education professions, academic developers, professionals, and anyone looking to improve their teaching and learning practices, Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education is also appropriate for continuing and professional development courses in the UK and teaching and learning courses in the US. Mark Tennant is Dean of the University Graduate School, University of Technology, Sydney. Cathi McMullen is Lecturer in the School of Marketing and Management at Charles Sturt University. Dan Kaczynski is Professor in the Educational Leadership department at Central Michigan University.

Written to enhance the practice of teaching, learning, and research in higher education, this text offers a combination of critical perspective and practical advice. Ideally suited for individuals who are interested in learning how to enhance their practice through the analysis of critique. The aim is to promote a critical understanding of one’s own developing practices, and offers advice on how to best position onself as a worker in contemporary academic life. 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.

This text fills a gap between those books that provide a high level analysis of contemporary higher education, the more practical texts on how to be a good teacher in higher education, and those texts which aim to improve teaching through better understanding of the learning process. The book will follow the same formula which has been successful in the author’s best-selling text 'Psychology and Adult Learning' – many readers have found Tennant’s model of critique quite useful in their practice. While it includes some psychological analysis, this text is much broader and draws on the author’s practical experience in teaching, management and research. Among other pedagogical features, each chapter will have a section titled ‘ enhancing practice’ which will bring out the practical implications through end of the chapter exercises.

Topical chapters include

• Teacher-learner relationship, Learning groups, Practice-oriented learning, Teaching for diversity, e-learning, Assessment, Approaches to Staff Development, Quality assurance, Supervision and Research education, Doing research, and Teaching & Research.

Recenzje

"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

O autorze

Mark Tennant, Cathi McMullen, Dan Kaczynski