The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-335-23446-2
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 278 g

This book is designed for lecturers on a wide range of professional courses. It directly addresses questions that come up again and again in seminar discussions; questions that are fundamental to the values and perspectives of academics across the disciplines: - What is meant by the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education? - What is the purpose of higher education? - Are lecturers really 'students' on these courses? - How do you do 'reflective' writing? - What do we do with all this theory and jargon? - What does CPD in this area involve? - How do you do 'research' on teaching and learning? This book does not treat each element of the curriculum separately – course design, assessment, evaluation of teaching etc. – since that approach has been well handled by others. Instead, like other books in the series, it addresses elements of the curriculum in an integrated way, thereby educating the reader in how to approach a range of higher education related issues. This book provides a scholarly introduction to the literature on these questions. Like other books in the series, it offers a concise treatment of complex questions. It also provides directions for future study.Contributors: Matthew Alexander, Glynis Cousin, Helen Fallon, Ian Finlay, Diana Kelly, Ruth Lowry, Marion McCarthy, Rowena Murray, Jacqueline Potter, Christine Sinclair, Sarah Skerratt and Barry Stierer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murray, Rowena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1
The scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education: an overviewChapter 2
What's learning for? - interrogating the scholarship of teaching and learningChapter 3
Lecturers as students - in a 'meaningful' senseChapter 4
Learning to write about teaching: understanding the writing demands of lecturer development programmes in Higher EducationChapter 5
Resources on higher education teaching and learningChapter 6
Starting with the disciplineChapter 7
Beyond common sense: a practitioner’s perspectiveChapter 8
Evaluating teaching and learning: enhancing the scholarship of teaching by asking students what they are learningChapter 9
Evidencing scholarshipChapter 10
Doing small-scale qualitative research on educational innovationChapter 11
Doing small-scale quantitative research on educational innovationChapter 12
Combining qualitative and quantitative: mixed-methods in small-scale researchChapter 13
Writing for publication about teaching and learning

Über Autor(innen)

Murray, Rowena
Rowena Murray is Associate Dean (Research) at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. She carries out research on writing, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and British Academy. Her other bestselling books with Open University Press include How to Write a Thesis, How to Survive Your Viva and The Handbook of Academic Writing (written with Sarah Moore). Rowena is also Editor of the Helping Students to Learn Series and edited the first volume The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Rowena Murray is Associate Dean (Research) in the Educational and Professional Studies Department, University of Strathclyde, UK.