Learning & Teaching in Higher Education: The Reflective Professional - Softcover

Light, Greg; Cox, Roy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076196553X ISBN 13: 9780761965534

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

This book addresses the practice of learning and teaching within higher education. Higher education is currently a sector challenged worldwide by increased numbers and diversity of students, tougher demands for professional accountability, increasing calls for educational relevance, thinning resources and the exacting demands of a global education market.

This book brings together key issues of theory and practice to develop an overall professional ′language′ of teaching situated within communities of academic practice. This ′language′ provides teachers with a conceptual ′vocabulary′ and ′grammar′ for understanding and improving practice, enables them to critically reflect upon their teaching in a range of key ′genres′

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About the Author

Dr Greg Light is Associate Director of the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is also an associate of the Institute of Education, University of London where he is a member of the Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES). He was a lecturer in higher education studies at the Institute and has worked for 15 years on faculty development programmes in higher education, consulting widely with universities throughout the UK. In 1998 he established the Professional Accreditation of Teaching in Higher Education programme at the Institute of Education of which he was the director. His primary research and scholarship interests include the theory and practice of learning and teaching in higher and professional education; their implications for professional and organizational development; the relationship between research and teaching, academic literacy, writing and communication; social discourse and identity. Recent publications have focussed on student learning and the professionalization of teaching in higher education.

With a background in psychology and philosophy Dr Roy Cox has a wide experience of research and practice in learning and teaching in higher education. He helped to establish one of the first centres for learning and teaching in higher education in the world at London University, where he is currently a visiting academic. His many publications draw on his educational research in many disciplines, teaching at all higher education levels and experience in over thirty countries.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076196553X
• ISBN 13: 9780761965534
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288