| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Critical issues in the future of learning and teaching ; volume 13 |
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Critical issues in the future of learning and teaching ; 13.
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| Contents |
Pedagogical peculiarities / Stephen D. Brookfield -- Redefining professionalism through an examination of personal and social values in veterinary teaching / Karen M. Young and Simon Lygo-Baker -- "Messy and precise" : peculiarities and parallels between the performing arts and higher education / Emma Medland, Alison James and Niall Bailey -- Research as pedagogy in academic development : a case study / Ian M. Kinchin, Martyn Kingsbury and Stefan Yoshi Buhmann -- The vulnerability of a small discipline and its search for appropriate pedagogy : the case of medical physics / Anesa Hosein and Jamie Harle -- The marketization of pedagogy and the problem of 'competitive accountability' / Richard Watermeyer and Michael Tomlinson -- Strategic pedagogic management : balancing act or symbiotic relationship between enhancement and assurance / Gill Nicholls and Simon Lygo-Baker -- Building an agenda for academic development on the peculiarity of university teaching / Paul Ashwin |
| Summary |
"Pedagogical Peculiarities: Conversations at the edge of university teaching and learning explores the peculiarities characterising university teaching cultures through a consideration of the implications, tensions and impacts associated with academic development in higher education. This is achieved through a series of deliberative dialogues, involving experts in pedagogy and academics working within specific disciplinary and institutional contexts. The chapters provide an important and currently missing critique of the peculiarity of teaching practice and the idealisation of teaching excellence in higher education. As a result, the volume's major contribution lies in the advancement of a unique discourse of pedagogy in higher education, comprised of multiple contexts. Ultimately Pedagogical Peculiarity's distinctiveness lies in its articulation of different pedagogical identities. These emanate from, and are characterized by different teaching and learning environments, across different institutions and sectors. This, in turn, serves to illuminate the current contexts and challenges across higher education as they relate and respond to ideology, values, policy and changes in the organization of the sector. In essence, Pedagogical Peculiarities explores what it means to be a contemporary academic"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
College teaching.
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Education, Higher -- Philosophy
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EDUCATION / Higher
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College teaching
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Education, Higher -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Medland, Emma, editor
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Watermeyer, Richard, editor
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Hosein, Anesa, editor
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Kinchin, Ian, editor
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Lygo-Baker, Simon, editor
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| LC no. |
2018027034 |
| ISBN |
9463512543 |
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9789463512541 |
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