This book examines the impact of context on academics pedagogical constructs. It theorizes the relation of teachers to context by focusing on the ways in which they conceptualise (their understanding of what teaching and learning is about), approach (how they perceive they go about teaching in practice) and relate (how they position themselves towards the context) to teaching and learning. It identifies seven filters in the teaching and learning context, which operate at the macro, meso and micro levels of practice to impact on pedagogical constructs. Context is analysed using a...
This book examines the impact of context on academics pedagogical constructs. It theorizes the relation of teachers to context by focusing o...
The role of academics in universities worldwide has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade. In this book Fanghanel discusses the effect on academics of modes of governance that have fostered the application of market principles to higher education and promoted flexibility and choice as levers for competition across the sector. She explores what it means to be an academic in the 21st century with reference to six 'moments of practice' through which she analyses the main facets of academic work and the responses of academics to this neoliberal drive. Being an...
The role of academics in universities worldwide has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade. In this book Fanghanel discusses the effec...
