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Author Syska, Alicja

Title How to Be a Learning Developer in Higher Education Critical Perspectives, Community and Practice
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (273 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- List of Contributors -- Foreword by John Hilsdon -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- References -- Part I: Becoming a Learning Developer: Ideas and Identity -- Chapter 1: Theory in LD: We Are All Players -- Introduction: What Is Theory? -- Theory in Practice -- Theory as Practice -- Theory Informing Learning Development -- Conclusion: Thinking the New -- (Re)creating Learning Development -- References -- Chapter 2: Conceptual Foundations in Learning Development
Introduction -- Historical, Value-driven, and Theoretical Foundations -- 'Doing' and 'Being' in Learning Development -- People as Producers, Not Texts as Products -- Skills Teaching Alongside Content, Not in a Vacuum -- Working with Disciplinary Instructors, Not as Disciplinary Instructors -- More than a Mindset -- What Is Learning Development? Two Theoretical Perspectives -- A Third Space -- Disciplinary Insider-Outsider and Community Builder -- Conclusion: So What Are We Fighting For? -- References -- Chapter 3: The Mess We're In: LD Pedagogies and the Question of Student Agency -- Introduction
Students are Complex Human Persons (Who Knew?!) -- Enabling Agency: The Question of Structure -- The Limitations of 'Generic Skills' (Or, Why Contestants on Strictly Don't Attend Lectures on 'Dancing Skills') -- The Centrality of Practice (Or, Why those Same Strictly Contestants Don't Rely on Written Guides on How to Cha-Cha-Cha) -- Conclusion: The Curse of Agency? -- References -- Chapter 4: The Development of Expertise and Identity Within a Community of Practice: A Networking Model -- Introduction -- Working in the Third Space -- Learning Developers' Journeys -- Novice
Functional Group Member -- Networking -- Professional Networker -- Expert -- Opportunities and Challenges -- Reflection: Networking -- Team Level -- Institutional Level -- External Professional Development -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Hybrid Learning Developers: Between the Discipline and the Third Space -- Capturing the Ineffable: Conceptualising the Hybrid Practitioner's Role and Identity -- Boundary-Spanning, World-Travelling, and Bridge-Making: The Advantages of Being a Hybrid -- Juggling on a Tightrope: The Difficulties Involved in Hybrid Work -- Where Do We Go from Here?
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography References -- Part II: Being a Learning Developer: Praxis -- Chapter 6: A Day in the Life: What the Learning Developer Does -- Where Is Learning Development? -- Learning Development Online -- Case Study: The Online Writing Social -- How Learning Developers Enact LD -- Assignment Support -- How LD Tutorials Work -- Workshops: Extracurricular -- Workshops: Embedding and Integrating LD -- Integrate, Integrate, Integrate -- Case Study: Academic Reading Circles -- Producing Resources -- Contributing to Strategies and Projects -- Conclusion -- References
Notes Chapter 7: Diversity in Our Expertise: Empowering Neurodivergent Students Within Learning Development
Subject Education, Higher.
higher education.
Form Electronic book
Author Buckley, Carina
ISBN 9781003831105
1003831109