Prelims
Teaching Excellence in Higher Education
ISBN: 978-1-78714-762-1, eISBN: 978-1-78714-761-4
Publication date: 21 December 2017
Citation
(2017), "Prelims", French, A. and O’Leary, M. (Ed.) Teaching Excellence in Higher Education (Great Debates in Higher Education), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xi. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-761-420171010
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Half Title Page
TEACHING EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Series Page
G reat Debates in Higher Education is a series of short, accessible books addressing key challenges to and issues in the Higher Education, on a national and international level. These books are research-informed but debate-driven. They are intended to be relevant to a broad spectrum of researchers, students and administrators in higher education, and are designed to help us unpick and assess the state of higher education systems, policies, and social and economic impacts.
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The Marketisation of English Higher Education: A Policy Analysis of a Risk-Based System
Colin McCaig
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Jan Bamford and Lucy Pollard
Sexual Violence on Campus: Power-Conscious Approaches to Awareness, Prevention, and Response
Christina Linder
Higher Education, Access and Funding: The UK in International Perspective
Sheila Riddell, Sarah Minty, Elisabet Weedon, and Susan Whittaker
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TEACHING EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Challenges, Changes and the Teaching Excellence Framework
Edited by
AMANDA FRENCH
School of Education and Social Work, Birmingham City University, UK
MATT O’LEARY
School of Education and Social Work, Birmingham City University, UK
With
SUE ROBSON
School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK
PHIL WOOD
School of Education, University of Leciester, UK
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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List of Figures
Figure 3.1 | Simple Schematic of Overarching Elements of Teaching Excellence | 46 |
Figure 3.2 | Teaching within a Wider Framework of Complex Adaptive Systems | 56 |
Figure 3.3 | Teacher and Students at the Centre of a Complexity Orientated Process | 57 |
List of Tables
Table 3.1 | An Outline of Indicative Foci Supporting Emergent Pedagogies | 62 |
Table 4.1 | Academic Staff Perceptions of Teaching Excellence | 83 |
Table 4.2 | Indicative Features of HE Teaching | 84 |
Notes on Contributors
Amanda French is the Head of Professional Development, Research and Enterprise at Birmingham City University’s School of Education. She has worked in higher, further, adult education and the voluntary sector in the West Midlands for 30 years.
Matt O’Leary is a Reader in Education at Birmingham City University. He has worked as a teacher, teacher educator, head of department and educational researcher in colleges, schools and universities in England, Mexico and Spain for over 25 years.
Sue Robson is a Professor of Education at Newcastle University. She is a member of the Research Centre for Learning and Teaching (CfLAT) and leads the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (HE) Research Group.
Phil Wood is an Associate Professor in Education at the University of Leicester where he is the Co-Director of RISE (Research, Impact Scholarship and Enterprise). He teaches on a number of both campus-base and distance postgraduate courses, predominantly working with international students. His research interests focus on pedagogic innovation and organisational change, understood through the lens of complex theory and process philosophy.
- Prelims
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Contextualising Excellence in Higher Education Teaching: Understanding the Policy Landscape
- 3 From Teaching Excellence to Emergent Pedagogies: A Complex Process Alternative to Understanding the Role of Teaching in Higher Education
- 4 Monitoring and Measuring Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: From Contrived Competition to Collective Collaboration
- 5 Developing and Supporting Teaching Excellence in Higher Education
- 6 Conclusion
- Index