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Against a background of changing patterns of academic labour in the UK and other English speaking countries, this book draws on empirical research which identifies a shift towards more open-ended approaches to roles and careers in higher education. This has resulted in what the authors describe as'concertina-like'careers, in which individuals stretch the spaces and timescales available to them. Underpinning this process, the concept of'career scripts'shows how the career paths of individuals may be informed by formal career structures (Institutional scripts) but also by activity associated with professional practice (Practice scripts), and by personal strengths, interests and commitments (Internal scripts). This has led to new forms of activity, within both the formal institutional economy, including promotion criteria and prescribed career pathways, and the informal institutional economy, represented by personal interests and initiatives, professional relationships and networks. The'concertina'process enables individuals to address a series of common misalignments and disjunctures within formal institutional economies, including those associated with disciplinary and departmental affiliations, job profiles, progression criteria, and work allocation models. The book also explores directions that academic careers may take in the future, and how institutions might adapt to these changes.

This book explains why society is still enamoured with education, allowing others to tell us what is important. At a time when innovation and creativity are ever more significant, we, as a society, should question past approaches. The text outlines the value of a learning-focused tactic, explaining how it differs from education, and its overall value to individual growth. A key message is that higher education institutions can adapt to a learning environment, an insight that is applicable to a broader spectrum.

Risky Teaching examines the role of risk and uncertainty in teaching and learning in higher education. Discussing the current landscape of higher education and the challenges and opportunities we face, this book synthesizes a range of evidence-based and high-impact practices both in and out of the classroom, offering practical strategies and thought-provoking ideas on educational innovation for students and faculty.Covering topics such as taking risks inside the classroom, innovative teaching methods outside the classroom, rethinking assessment, and sustaining creativity as we grow in our careers, this practical resource is for faculty and instructors to work within and through uncertainty. The book also explores the inward challenges and opportunities associated with risky teaching and how institutional leaders can encourage productive risk-taking throughout the organization. This important text is for faculty and instructors in higher education who want to help their students thrive in a complex, unscripted, and disruptive world.

Revitalizing Classrooms brings together six diverse essays with the central purpose of providing a venue for scholar teachers from a number of disciplines to convey their individual journeys in pedagogical innovation. These classroom narratives involve a paradigm shift away from traditional lecture modes to vital, active, engaged teaching and learning. From high school classrooms to undergraduate and graduate classes, these models provide adaptable ways to reinvigorate and energize classroom spaces that center student driven learning.

In this book, we put forward a holistic conceptual framework for implementing Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SoLT) in higher education. Unlike previous SoLT studies, which usually focus on a specific aspect, here various aspects are integrated into a holistic framework. Further, it identifies three main stakeholders, namely, the higher education institution, teaching staff, and students. These stakeholders are in turn connected by four interlocking themes: staff professional development, enhancement of student learning experiences, assessment, and digital technologies. Presenting chapters that address these four themes, this book supports the advancement of SoLT in higher education in relation to existing theories and emerging practices. By helping academics and leaders in higher education to implement SoLT for the improvement of student learning and teaching practices, it also makes a valuable contribution to the field of teacher education.

“It has been a while since a scholarly book, so authoritative in its claims and innovative in its concepts, threatens to shake up the curriculum field at its foundations. Rich in metaphor and meaning, the superbly written chapters challenge a field that once more became moribund as we settled (sic) far too comfortably into accepting handed-down frames and fictions about knowledge, authority, power and agency that imprint ‘cognitive damage'on those forced to the margins of schools and universities. Disrupting Higher Education Curriculum demonstrates, however, that it is in fact from those margins of the education enterprise that academics, teachers and learners can see more clearly how patterns of thought and action hold us back from placing and experiencing our African humanity at the centre of the curriculum.” —Jonathan Jansen, Rector and Vice Chancellor of the University of the Free State, South Africa

This volume represents a collection of papers from active researchers and practitioners from around the world who came together in their shared interest to discuss recent developments in higher education. Comprehensive in nature, it focuses on the need to address emerging and diverse issues in education, and highlights the necessity of a comprehensive account of recent developments in higher education. It offers insights into the ways in which higher education continuously evolves and how it has risen to face constant challenges, such as the changing perceptions resulting from new instructional practices and current research investigations.

Student feedback has appeared in the forefront of higher education quality, in particular the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to improve higher education teaching and learning, and other areas of student tertiary experience. Despite this, little academic literature has focussed on the experiences of academics, higher education leaders and managers. The final title in the Chandos Learning and Teaching Series to focus on student feedback, Enhancing Learning and Teaching through Student Feedback in the Medical and Health Sciences expands on topics covered in the previous publications, focussing on the medical and health science disciplines. This edited title includes contributions from experts in higher education quality, and student feedback from a range of countries, such as Australia, Europe, Canada, the USA, the UK, South East Asia and India. The book is concerned with the practices of evaluation and higher education quality in medical and health science disciplines, with particular focus on student feedback. The book begins by giving a discipline-specific overview of student feedback in medical and health sciences, before moving on to take a global perspective. The penultimate chapter considers the accountability of student evaluations in health and medical sciences, before a conclusion summarises the practices of student feedback and accountability in medical and health sciences, and suggests future improvements. - Links student feedback in medical and health science disciplines to establishing a better understanding of its forms, purposes and effectiveness in learning - Provides international perspectives on student feedback in medical and health sciences - Compares student feedback with key examples of best practices and approaches to enhancing learning/teaching through student feedback in the medical and health sciences

Deep learning is a committed approach to learning. It is a process of constructing and interpreting new knowledge in light of prior cognitive structures and experiences, which can be applied in new, unfamiliar contexts. Deep learning produces learning that lasts a lifetime; and it results in better quality learning and profound understanding. In co

This title is the second Chandos Learning and Teaching Series book that explores themes surrounding enhancing learning and teaching through student feedback. It expands on topics covered in the previous publication, and focuses on social science disciplines. The editors previously addressed this gap in their first book Student Feedback: The cornerstone to an effective quality assurance system in higher education. In recent years, student feedback has appeared in the forefront of higher education quality, in particular the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and also other areas of student tertiary experience. This is an edited book with contributions by experts in higher education quality and particularly student feedback in social science disciplines from a range of countries, such as Australia, Europe, Canada, the USA, the UK and India. This book is concerned with the practices of evaluation and higher education quality in social science disciplines, with particular focus on student feedback. - The first book of its kind on student feedback specific to social sciences and will be a scholarly resource for all stakeholders to enhance learning/teaching through student feedback - Will interrogate student feedback in social science disciplines, on the basis of establishing a better understanding of its forms, purposes and effectiveness in learning - Contributions come from experienced academics, experts and practitioners in the area

'This reference provides well-rounded research in providing teaching and learning theories that can be applied to both adults and children while acknowledging the difference between both'--

This volume captures the spirit of collaboration and innovation that its authors bring into the classroom, as well as to groundbreaking undergraduate programs and initiatives. Coming from diverse points of view and twenty different disciplines, the contributors illuminate the often perplexing debates about what matters most in higher education today. Each chapter tells a unique story about creating vital pedagogical arenas that have the potential to transform teaching and learning for both faculty and students. These exploratory spaces include courses under construction, cross-college and interdisciplinary collaborations, general education reform initiatives, and fresh perspectives on student support services, faculty development, freshman learning communities, writing across the curriculum, on-line degree initiatives, and teaching and learning centers. All these spaces lend shape to an over-arching, system-wide project bringing together the often disconnected silos of undergraduate education at The City University of New York (CUNY), America's largest urban public university system. Since 2003, the University's Office of Undergraduate Education has sponsored coordinated efforts to study and improve teaching and learning for the system's 260,000 undergraduates enrolled at 18 distinct colleges. The contributors to this volume present a broad spectrum of administrative and faculty perspectives that have informed the process of transforming the undergraduate experience. Combined, the voices in these chapters create a much-needed exploratory space for the interplay of ideas about how teaching and learning need to matter in evolving notions of higher education in the twenty-first century. In addition, the text has wider social relevance as an in-depth exploration of change and reform in a large public institution.

¿Cuál y cómo debe ser la relación entre sociedad y universidad? ¿Qué significa ser profesor universitario en estos tiempos? Estamos siendo testigos de los nuevos retos y sentidos que está adquiriendo o que se le está asignando a la universidad dentro de la sociedad, tanto desde una mirada local como global. Se trata, por cierto, de una relación compleja: toda relación entre una institución educativa y la sociedad en la que esta se desarrolla?¿O debemos decir para la cual se desarrolla? Supone, a la vez, tensión y diálogo. Estos constituyen las coordenadas que conforman el espacio en el que sociedad y universidad se construyen. Y en el centro de este proceso, nos encontramos con el vínculo entre profesor y estudiante.'El poder de educar. Una mirada al vínculo pedagógico'nos recuerda que, entre el profesor y sus estudiantes, se establece una compleja relación de poderes que, a su vez, propicia una gama de posibilidades de acción. El poder otorgado al docente universitario supone una gran responsabilidad no solo ante sus alumnos, sino también ante la institución y ante la sociedad. Los autores de este libro lo saben y resaltan la naturaleza ética de esta responsabilidad. No parten de concepciones idealizadas ni de la universidad ni de la figura del profesor; tampoco obvian los conflictos que toda relación conlleva. Más bien, a partir de las limitaciones, los alcances y las problemáticas de la labor del profesor universitario, nos ofrecen reflexiones sobre la delicada tarea de enseñar en una universidad. Y lo hacen partiendo de una idea base: la reflexión como experiencia. Los autores nos plantean preguntas y nos abren dudas que nos llaman al diálogo, a interpelarnos a nosotros mismos, en el día a día de la propia experiencia docente. Así, esta se convierte en un oficio, casi artesanal, basado en un diálogo en el que lo que construimos nos construye.

This work reveals the fraught nature of the relationship between the academy and the state in order to provide a more coherent framework for thinking about the way in which universities, and academic activities in general, are best organized and regulated. It uses extensive historical case analysis based on the emergence of the nation state and the academy in Europe, along with very focused case material examining events in Australia within the context of developments in international education, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. Australia is at the forefront of the globalization of education services. From the late 1980s, the nation began the single most dramatic shift in policies affecting education and research. It moved from collegial self-regulation (within the European tradition) towards market fundamentalism. Australian higher education now rivals––and in many respects surpasses––the U.S. as a market model. But it is, at the same time, also an abomination. Reasons for the change were complex and related to the economic rise of Asia as well as to Australia's closer alignment to the United States. However, the impacts were profound and disturbing. In the decade that followed, Australia built an international export industry in higher education that became the envy of the world. By 2005, around one-quarter of all students attending Australian universities were foreign nationals, and their fees were underwriting a massive expansion in the system. Fears that market regimes left untethered would destroy the intellectual base and moral fiber of the universities were routinely ignored. Critics were demonized and silenced as an aggressive marketing machine propelled the industry forward, ruthlessly exploiting the lucrative markets to Australia's near north. But the costs soon began to mount in terms of human tragedy. Finally, in May of 2009, thousands of Indian students protested in the streets of Australia's major cities, and the situation could not be ignored. Suddenly Australia's relationship with one of its major trading partners was in serious jeopardy, largely due to the fact that the idea of pastoral care––once a fundamental tenet of higher education––had been trampled in the rush for profits. Australia's zealous embrace of academic capitalism offers a historic lesson for universities and policymakers around the world. However, as shown throughout this work, the Australian experience is simply the repetition of the very same lesson that has been offered over and over again since the beginning of institutional higher learning. But it is a lesson that the world can no longer ignore. The study of higher education and the role of universities in society invariably falls among the disciplines of public policy, higher education, and philosophy, but these very different perspectives offer conflicting narratives and inadequate solutions to current problems. This work redefines the parameters of these historic debates and brings together, for the first time, trends in thinking about the changing role of the nation state with major developments within higher education around the globe. More importantly, it develops a very robust theoretical approach to the way in which higher learning is understood, offering important new insights into the legitimizing role of the academy. Drawing on a wealth of historical and current empirical evidence, this book presents a powerful argument that universities are foremost civil institutions, not unlike parliament or the judiciary. Their broad purpose, as the crucibles and legislatures of advancing human technology, cannot be understated. They make up a large part of the ballast that allows the democratic state to function properly.

Learning Discourses and the Discourses of Learning is an edited collection of papers exploring issues of teaching and learning in academic settings. The key theme of the volume is'discourses'- especially as these relate to institutional policies, disciplinary practices and students'processes of learning in the academy. Particular attention is paid to the experiences of second-language students studying at Australian universities as well as those learning foreign languages in Australia. Employing a variety of methodologies and theoretical perspectives, the papers in Learning Discourses ar.

·What is involved in examining a research-based higher degree? ·What are the roles of the internal and external examiners?·What are the hidden agendas of higher degree examining?·What are the essential ingredients of a ‘good'viva?This handbook offers a revealing insight into the written – and unwritten – rules and regulations of higher degree examination in the United Kingdom today. Addressed directly to the examiners, it contains a step-by-step account of the different stages of the examination process in order to provide an insiders'guide into what to expect before, during and after the oral examination. How to Examine a Thesis covers important issues such as:·The power-relations between the two (or more) examiners·Hidden agendas and foul play·Examples of guidelines and regulations across different institutions·Advice on MPhil as well as doctoral examinationsThis book is essential reading for all higher degree examiners but is also of importance to those supervising, and studying for, higher degrees. Moreover, although the book focuses primarily on current practices in the United Kingdom, comparisons are drawn with continental Europe, Australia and the United States. Research degree examiners, supervisors and students throughout the world will find the book of considerable interest.