International Perspectives on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

Improving Knowledge and Practice
Redaktion: Skelton, Alan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Teaching Excellence in Higher Education provides a guide for all those supporting, promoting and trying to achieve teaching excellence in higher education and sets the scene for teaching excellence as a field for serious investigation and critical enquiry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134140664
• Artikelnr.: 39263595

Autorenporträt

Alan Skelton is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK. He undertakes critical research investigations into higher education pedagogy and is the author of Understanding Teaching Excellence in Higher Education, published by Routledge in 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Conceptual challenges 1. Excellence and the Good
Society 2. Braided practice: the place of scholarly inquiry in teaching
excellence 3. Beyond performance in teaching excellence 4. Teaching,
discipline, net-work 5. Integrating research and teaching: understanding
excellence Part 2: Policy and discourse 6. The demotic turn - excellence by
fiat 7. Policy discourses about teaching excellence in a transforming South
Africa 8. Critiquing excellence: undergraduate research for all students?
9. Tertiary teaching matters: political economy of a New Zealand centre for
tertiary teaching excellence 10. Centres for Excellence in Teaching and
Learning in England: recognising, celebrating and promoting excellence?
Part 3: Development initiatives 11. National strategies for promoting
excellence in teaching: a critical review 12. Teaching excellence in higher
education in Japan: an evolving agenda 13. Teaching excellence in context:
drawing from a socio-cultural approach 14. The National Teaching Fellowship
Scheme 2000-2006: Rest In Peace? 15. Exploring teaching excellence in
Canada: an interrogation of common practices and policies 16. Exploring and
developing excellence: towards a community of praxis Conclusion