The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

by Murray, Rowena

• ISBN13: 9780335234462
• ISBN10: 0335234461
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

This book is designed for lecturers on a wide range of professional courses. It directly addresses questions that come up again and again in seminar discussions; questions that are fundamental to the values and perspectives of academics across the disciplines: What is meant by the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education? What is the purpose of higher education? Are lecturers really 'students' on these courses? How do you do 'reflective' writing? What do we do with all this theory and jargon? What does CPD in this area involve? How do you do 'research' on teaching and learning? This book does not treat each element of the curriculum separately course design, assessment, evaluation of teaching etc. since that approach has been well handled by others. Instead, like other books in the series, it addresses elements of the curriculum in an integrated way, thereby educating the reader in how to approach a range of higher education related issues.This book provides a scholarly introduction to the literature on these questions. Like other books in the series, it offers a concise treatment of complex questions. It also provides directions for future study.Contributors:Matthew Alexander, Glynis Cousin, Helen Fallon, Ian Finlay, Diana Kelly, Ruth Lowry, Marion McCarthy, Rowena Murray, Jacqueline Potter, Christine Sinclair, Sarah Skerratt and Barry Stierer.

Author Biography

Rowena Murray is Associate Dean (Research) in the Educational and Professional Studies Department, University of Strathclyde, UK.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education: an overview	p. 6
What's learning for? Interrogating the scholarship of teaching and learning	p. 16
Lecturers as students - in a 'meaningful sense'	p. 25
Learning to write about teaching: understanding the writing demands of lecturer development programmes in higher education	p. 34
Resources on higher education teaching and learning	p. 46
Starting with the discipline	p. 58
Beyond common sense: a practitioner's perspective	p. 69
Evaluating teaching and learning: enhancing the scholarship of teaching by asking students what they are learning	p. 80
Reconsidering Scholarship reconsidered	p. 91
Doing small-scale qualitative research on educational innovation	p. 98
Doing small-scale quantitative research on educational innovation	p. 112
Combining qualitative and quantitative: mixed-methods in small-scale research	p. 122
Writing for publication about teaching and learning in higher education	p. 128
Bibliography	p. 139
Index	p. 149
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