Elizabeth Cleaver, Maxine Lintern, Mike Mclinden

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Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

Disciplinary Approaches to Educational Enquiry

Beschreibung

This book explores best practice approaches to undertaking enquiry into learning and teaching in higher education for staff from all academic disciplines. A general introduction to the methods most commonly used in undertaking enquiry in the field of education is complemented by chapters exploring how research methods from a range of disciplinary areas can be adapted and used for educational enquiry.

New to this second edition:

· Chapters on interdisciplinary educational enquiry in geography and using ethnographic methods for educational enquiry

· New case studies and suggested activities

· A reflective final chapter inviting readers and their institutions to develop and promote an organisational culture founded on critical enquiry

This is essential reading for anyone undertaking HE qualifications in learning and teaching (including PGCTLHE and PGCAP) and for academics wishing to apply their skills of research and enquiry to their learning and teaching practice.

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Autor

Prof. Elizabeth Cleaver is Professor of Learning and Teaching at the University of the West of England, UK (UWE) where she has built and leads the University's Academic Practice Directorate: the central hub for the support, development and enhancement of academic programmes and practice. Over a career spanning 23 years she has taught, written and researched in sociology and education. Her early academic career was in the discipline of sociology where she specialised in the area of youth transitions to adulthood (early works are published in name Kenyon). It was during this period that her interest in disciplinary teaching approaches, and the importance of not just thinking and researching sociologically, but teaching sociologically, began to grow. Following a six-year spell outside the HE sector, undertaking local and government-funded policy research and evaluations at NFER, she returned to higher education in 2008. This most recent stage of Elizabeth's career has focused on providing strategic leadership for curricular and pedagogic development and change in a range of contrasting higher education institutions. Elizabeth is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526452955
• Artikelnr.: 53154427

Rezensionen

'This book makes a timely contribution to debate and developing practice in critical educational inquiry, specifically in the context of research intended to enhance teaching quality, both as a laudable aim in itself and in response to external drivers such as the TEF. The central thrust of the book acknowledges the challenges for non-HE researchers coping with the 'strange land of higher education studies' and the importance of locating academic research within the discipline as a starting point. The authors make a powerful case for critical inquiry as a means of building disciplinary and cross-disciplinary communities and its potential to drive institutional culture change.'

Fran Beaton