THEORISING LEARNING TO TEACH IN HIGHER EDUCATION by Brenda Leibowitz (Editor), Vivienne Bozalek (Editor), Peter Kahn (Editor) ( 9781317195733 )

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Title:

THEORISING LEARNING TO TEACH IN HIGHER EDUCATION

By:

Brenda Leibowitz (Editor), Vivienne Bozalek (Editor), Peter Kahn (Editor)

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

1317195736

ISBN 13:

9781317195733

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

3 November, 2016

Series:

Research into Higher Education

Pages:

238

Synopsis:

Theorising Learning to Teach in Higher Education provides both lecturers embarking on a career in higher education and established members of staff with the capacity to improve their teaching. The process of learning to teach, and the associated field of professional academic development for teaching, is absolutely central to higher education. Offering innovative alternatives to some of the dominant work on teaching theory, this volume explores three significant approaches in detail: critical and social realist, social practice and sociomaterial approaches, which are divided into four sections:SociomaterialismPractice theoriesCritical and social realismCrossover perspectives.Readers will benefit from discussions on the role and place of theory in the process of learning to teach, whilst international case studies demonstrate the kinds of insights and recommendations that could emanate from the three approaches examined, drawing together contributions from Europe, Africa and Australasia. Both challenging and enlightening, this book argues the need for theory in order to advance scholarship in the field and achieve goals related to social justice in higher education systems across the world. It draws attention to newly emerging theoretical perspectives and relatively underused perspectives to demonstrate the need for theory in relation to learning to teach.This book will appeal to academics interested in how they come to learn to teach, to administrators and academic developers responsible for professional development strategies at universities and masters and PhD level students researching professional development in higher education.

Illustrations:

4 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 7 Tables,

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Imprint:

Routledge

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Non-returnable

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