Understanding staff development / Graham Webb.
By: Webb, Graham
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BookPublisher: Buckingham : Bristol, PA, USA : Society for Research into Higher Education ; Open University Press, 1996Description: 124 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0335192890; 0335192882 .Subject(s): College teaching | College teachers -- Training ofDDC classification: 378.125 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 378.125 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00010259 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
As quality, issues in university teaching and learning move to centre stage, so too does the theory and staff development. But upon what do developers base their own practice? where does the idea of 'development' come from and what problems does it raise? What are the shortcomings of organizing principles staff developers have been urged to take up such as 'deep' and 'surface' approaches to learning, reflective practice and action research. How can the philosophical tradition of 'understanding' and the contemporary ideas of postmodernism inform staff development practice?
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-120) and index.
Introduction -- Positive knowledge and progress in staff development -- Staff development for understanding people and ourselves -- To critically go: Staff development for a better world -- Postmodernity and staff development: Nowhere to run -- By diverse paths: Developing staff developers.