Teaching and learning in higher education : disciplinary approaches to educational enquiry / edited by Elizabeth Cleaver, Maxine Lintern, Mike McLinden.
Contributor(s): Cleaver, Elizabeth [editor.]
| Lintern, Maxine [editor.] | McLinden, Mike [editor.].
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BookPublisher: Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xxvi, 246 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781446254639 (paperback); 9781446254622 (hardcover).Subject(s): Education -- Research | College teaching | Education -- Higher -- Study and teaching | Effective teachingDDC classification: 378.17 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In today′s higher education climate academic staff are encouraged to focus not only on the up-to-date content of their teaching, but also to identify the most effective ways to engage students in learning, often alongside other key transferrable skills. This had led to a growing requirement for staff to adopt a scholarly approach to learning and teaching practice, and to undertake scholarship of learning and teaching as part of ongoing professional development.
This text explores broad best practice approaches to undertaking enquiry into learning and teaching in higher education. It provides an introduction for staff who have been educated within a range of academic disciplines, often with high-level but very focused knowledge about, and understandings of, research processes to the potentially new world of educational enquiry. This is complemented by chapters exploring what educational enquiry means in the context of different academic disciplines, including physical sciences, mathematics, engineering, the life sciences, the arts, the humanities, the health professions, and law.
It also includes:
An overview of research methodology including data collection, literature reviews, good ethical practice, and research dissemination Case studies of actual research projects to support understanding of how to carry out educational enquiry in practice.Lecturers, why waste time waiting for the post arrive? Request and receive your e-inspection copy today!
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index.
Part one: Understanding educational enquiry -- Part two: Enquiry in the disciplines.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Figures (p. ix)
- List of Case Studies (p. xi)
- Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
- About the Authors (p. xv)
- About the Contributors (p. xvii)
- Preface (p. xxii)
- Foreword (p. xxv)
- Part 1 Understanding Educational Enquiry (p. 1)
- 1 What is educational enquiry and why is it important? (p. 3)
- 2 What do I need to know before I read educational literature? (p. 19)
- 3 How is educational literature evidenced and reviewed? (p. 34)
- 4 What about ethics and safety? (p. 54)
- 5 What kind of data should 1 collect and use? (p. 72)
- 6 What about dissemination? (p. 92)
- Part 2 Enquiry in the Disciplines (p. 105)
- 7 Enquiry into learning and teaching in the physical sciences (p. 107)
- 8 Enquiry" into learning and teaching in mathematics and engineering (p. 126)
- 9 Enquiry into learning and teaching in the life sciences (p. 146)
- 10 Enquiry into learning and teaching in arts and creative practice (p. 162)
- 11 Enquiry into learning and teaching in the humanities (p. 178)
- 12 Enquiry into learning and teaching in the health professions (p. 195)
- 13 Enquiry into learning and teaching in the professions: the case of law (p. 209)
- References (p. 223)
- Index (p. 241)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Dr Elizabeth Cleaver is Director of Learning Enhancement and Academic Practice at the University of Hull.Professor Maxine Lintern is Associate Dean for Teaching, Research and Scholarship for the Faculty of Health at Birmingham City University.
Professor Mike McLinden is programme tutor and Director of Education in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham.