Understanding Teaching Excellence in Higher Education (Key Issues in Higher Education) - Softcover

Skelton, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415333288 ISBN 13: 9780415333283

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

What makes a university teacher 'excellent'? As debates rage about whether this is down to subject knowledge, communication skills, taking a research-led approach or being a technological whiz, this book provides the first in-depth examination of teaching excellence in higher education. Identifying and examining interpretations of teaching excellence, it considers what ‘excellent’ means and implies for practice.

 

About this title

About the Author

Alan Skelton is Lecturer in Higher Education at the School of Education, University of Sheffield. He directs the M.Ed in Teaching and Learning for University Lecturers course and is a member of the Research Centre for Higher Education and Lifelong Learning. He recently conducted an ESRC-funded evaluation of the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme for higher education teachers in England and Northern Ireland.

Review

'Skelton writes with an engaging critical zeal, and his book will certainly help many talented, competent, and hardworking teachers in higher education in UK to understand why, and how, a few members of their profession become mysteriously singled out for recognition and reward as “excellent”, whilst they themselves do not.'

'Here we have a bold and original book that cruelly exposes some of the myth-making mechanisms that politicians and their handservants have clumsily sought to impose upon contemporary HE. Extremely well written and a model of clear organisation.'

- British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 38 No 1 2007

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415333288
• ISBN 13: 9780415333283
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204