Learning and teaching in higher education : the reflective professional
"This book addresses the practice of learning and teaching within higher education. Higher education is currently a sector challenged worldwide by increased numbers and diversity of students, tougher demands for professional accountability, increasing calls for educational relevance, thinning resources and the exacting demands of a global education market." "Learning and Teaching in Higher Educations is intended for lecturers, researchers, staff developers and others providing and/or supporting teaching in higher and professional education. The authors draw upon theory, practice and current educational research to demonstrate a distinctive way of thinking about many aspects of learning and teaching in higher education and integrating this into a comprehensive and coherent professional practice."--Jacket
1 online resource (ix, 277 pages) : illustrations
9781848608535, 9786611897673, 9781281897671, 1848608535, 6611897674, 1281897671
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The challenge of professionalism
pt. 1. The lecturer as reflective professional : Language and knowledge: a general theoretical framework
The reflective professional in academic practice
A critical matrix of learning and teaching
pt. 2. Genres of teaching in higher education : Designing: course and curriculum design
Lecturing: large group teaching
Facilitating: small group teaching
Supervising: project, dissertation and thesis supervision
Innovating: teaching with a new technology
Assessing: student assessment
Evaluating: teaching and course evaluation
pt. 3. Performance strategy : realizing the reflective professional
Appendix 1: checklists
Appendix 2: exercise on methods of evaluating teaching
Appendix 3: teaching observation guidelines
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English