Nancy Falchikov

Learning Together

Peer Tutoring in Higher Education

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an introduction to the methods and practice of peer tutoring focusing on how to set up schemes and how to cope with common problems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9780415182607
• ISBN-10: 0415182603
• Artikelnr.: 25684647

Autorenporträt

Nancy Falchikov is an Education consultant at Napier University, Edinburgh. She has worked as a teacher in Higher Education for many years, and has been researching ways of improving learning and teaching since the mid 1980s.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. What is peer tutoring? 2. Beneficial effects: why teachers use peer tutoring
3. Theoretical frameworks for peer tutoring
4. How theory can inform practice
5. Planning and promoting peer tutoring
6. Helping students become peer tutors
7. Evaluation of peer tutoring schemes
8. Problems associated with peer tutoring
9. Technology-supported collaborative learning
10. Benefiting from hindsight: practitioners reflect on peer tutoring
11. Reflections and prospects

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Introduction; 1. What is peer tutoring? 2. Beneficial effects: why teachers use peer tutoring; 3. Theoretical frameworks for peer tutoring; 4. How theory can inform practice; 5. Planning and promoting peer tutoring; 6. Helping students become peer tutors; 7. Evaluation of peer tutoring schemes; 8. Problems associated with peer tutoring; 9. Technology-supported collaborative learning; 10. Benefiting from hindsight: practitioners reflect on peer tutoring; 11. Reflections and prospects

Rezensionen

'The author has striven to make the text accessible to all members of the expected readership. Practical examples are plentiful, and helpful summaries are provided at the end of many chapters ... Her personal style shines through this book. While addressing abstract issues of theoretical underpinnings and evidential basis, she also manages to be personal in tone and practcical in orienatation, thereby potentially encouraging and inspiring to teachers in HE at all stages of development in their craft ... There is a great deal of useful material of many types in this book. The author has succeeded in the difficult task of combining theory, research and practice into a toolkit for onward development in teaching and learning which should prove invaluable to all of the target audience.' - Keith Topping, Educational Research

'The author has striven to make the text accessible to all members of the expected readership. Practical examples are plentiful, and helpful summaries are provided at the end of many chapters ... Her personal style shines through this book. While addressing abstract issues of theoretical underpinnings and evidential basis, she also manages to be personal in tone and practcical in orienatation, thereby potentially encouraging and inspiring to teachers in HE at all stages of development in their craft ... There is a great deal of useful material of many types in this book. The author has succeeded in the difficult task of combining theory, research and practice into a toolkit for onward development in teaching and learning which should prove invaluable to all of the target audience.' - Keith Topping, Educational Research