Teaching for Understanding at University: Deep Approaches and Distinctive Ways of Thinking

ISBN-13: 9780230593855 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 224 str.

Opis

This book brings together a range of research findings and professional experience about the effects of teaching on the quality of learning at university, encouraging university teachers to think broadly and imaginatively about approaches to teaching in their own area to help students develop deep, personal understandings of the subject.

Spis treści

Preface.- Introduction and Outline.- PART I: HOW STUDENT'S LEARN.- Educational Psychology and Student Learning.- Learning and Influences on It.- The Impact of Approaches to Learning.- How Students Learn and Study.- PART II: WHAT IS LEARNED.- Understanding Understanding.- The Nature of Academic Understanding.- PART III: HOW ACADEMICS TEACH.- Evolving Approaches to Teaching.- Ideas About Teaching and Learning.- Teaching for Understanding.- Research into Teaching for Understanding.- PART IV: PROVIDING TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT TO SUPPORT LEARNING.- A Heuristic Model of Teaching and Learning.- Research Guiding Teaching.- Assessment as the Driver, but in which Direction?.- Influences of the Learning Environment.- Practical Guidelines for Teaching that Encourages Deep Approaches.- PART V: MONITORING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING.- Professional Development of Teaching.- Monitoring Teaching and Carrying Out Investigations.- Appendix A: Indicative Interview Schedule.- Appendix B: Questionnaire for Monitoring Learning and Teaching (SETLQ).- Index.

O autorze

NOEL ENTWISTLE was the Bell Professor of Education at the University of Edinburgh, UK for 25 years and now is Professor Emeritus. He has Honorary Degrees from the Universities of Gothenburg and Turku and an Oeuvre Award for outstanding research contributions from the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction. He is a past editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and Higher Education, and has an international reputation for his work in the field of student learning in higher education.

Blurb

Research into how teaching affects the quality of student learning at university is a rapidly changing field. University teachers are increasingly required to develop their own strategies for effective teaching, often with limited guidance from their institutions. Teaching for Understanding at University not only outlines a wide range of recent developments in the area, but shows how approaches can be brought together to help university teachers think more imaginatively about ways of encouraging students' learning.

Written in a way designed to be interesting and accessible to university teachers across disciplines, the volume concentrates on how students reach a personal understanding of the subject they are studying. Covering academic understanding, approaches to teaching, assessment methods and evaluation of teaching, the book provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest ideas on teaching and learning. Avoiding unnecessary jargon and 'business speak', this is the ideal book for the newly qualified lecturer, as well as the more experienced academic who is keen to consider their teaching methods from a fresh perspective.

Noel Entwistle is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Edinburgh. He was previously the editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and Higher Education, and has an international reputation for his work in the field of student learning in higher education.