Tony Harland, Neil Pickering

Values in Higher Education Teaching

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Values in Higher Education Teaching' explores the way in which teaching, research, learning and higher education are a values enterprise and that an exploration of values is necessary to work out the full purposes of a higher education to guide practices and help academics understand academic work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780415589222
• ISBN-10: 0415589223
• Artikelnr.: 30621272

Autorenporträt

Tony Harland is Associate Professor in the Higher Education Development Centre at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Neil Pickering is Senior Lecturer in Bioethics in the Bioethics Centre at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

@contents: Introduction 1. Values. A concept of values. Values in teaching. Values in higher education. Values narrative: Eddie 2. Understanding Values in Practice. What
s worth knowing? What
s worth learning? Valuing academic practice. Values narrative: East of Kinshasa 3. Teaching Values. What
s worth teaching? Six challenges for the values teacher. Values narrative: An old teacher, an old friend 4. Valuing Higher Education. New values for old. A variety of purposes. Shifting (or shifty?) values. Values narrative: No more than an image 5. Foundational Values. The public academic. Capitulation and resistance. Values narrative: Lucy
s story. Values narrative: The goodbye letters