Teaching, Learning, and Research in Higher Education: Enhancing Practice through Critique

Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education offers a combination of critical perspectives and practical advice that is ideally suited for individuals interested in enhancing their practice through analysis and critique. The aim is to promote a critical understanding of one's own practices, allowing academics to develop a sense of agency through a reflexive engagement with the circumstances in which they find themselves. At a practical level this means to continuously think about how to adjust practice rather than following a formulaic approach derived from any particular educational theory.Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education argues that academics can find space for their own agency in the midst of institutional policies and practices that serve to frame, as well as delimit and constrain, what counts as good academic work in teaching and research. This text bridges a gap between those books that provide a high-level analysis of contemporary higher education, the more practical texts on how to be a good teacher in higher education, and those texts which aim to improve teaching through better understanding of the learning process.Topical chapters include:Teacher-learner relationship, Learning groups, Practice-oriented learning, Teaching for diversity, e-learning, Assessment, Approaches to Staff Development, Quality assurance, Supervision and Research education, Doing research, and Teaching & Research.Mark Tennant is Dean of the University Graduate School, University of Technology, Sydney.Cathi McMullen is Lecturer in the School of Marketing and Management at Charles Sturt University.Dan Kaczynski is Professor in the Educational Leadership department at Central Michigan University.Tennant, Mark is the author of 'Teaching, Learning, and Research in Higher Education: Enhancing Practice through Critique' with ISBN 9780415962728 and ISBN 0415962722.