Teaching & Learning Books

New and Published Books

1. University Teaching

   An introductory guide

   By Tony Harland

   University Teaching: An Introductory Guide is a vital tool for the new lecturer that aims to encourage and support an inquiry into university teaching and academic life. This book understands that teaching is not discrete but one of many activities integrated in academic work. It recognizes that...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. Teaching as a Design Science

   Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology

   By Diana Laurillard

   Teaching is changing. It is no longer simply about passing on knowledge to the next generation. Teachers in the twenty-first century, in all educational sectors, have to cope with an ever-changing cultural and technological environment. Teaching is now a design science. Like other design...

   Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. A Short History of Writing Instruction

   From Ancient Greece to Contemporary America, 3rd Edition

   Edited by James J. Murphy

   Short enough to be synoptic, yet long enough to be usefully detailed, A Short History of Writing Instruction is the ideal text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in rhetoric and composition. It preserves the legacy of writing instruction from antiquity to contemporary times with a...

   Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. Becoming a New Instructor

   A Guide for College Adjuncts and Graduate Students

   By Erika Falk

   Becoming a New Instructor guides new instructors through the planning, preparation, and execution of their first class, whether it is in person or online. Like any good mentor, this book provides clear, simple instructions and makes best-practice recommendations. Becoming a New Instructor provides...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
5. Accountability, Pragmatic Aims, and the American University

   By Ana M. Martínez-Alemán

   Accountability, Pragmatic Aims, and the American University frames the debates on teaching and learning accountability in Higher Education. By examining significant historic periods in Higher Education, Martínez-Alemán explores the present apprehension about accountability in today’s colleges and...

   Published November 7th 2011 by Routledge
6. Approaches to Assessment that Enhance Learning in Higher Education

   Edited by Stylianos Hatzipanagos, Rebecca Rochon

   This book addresses the need to diversify mainstream forms of assessment currently used in Higher Education in order to re-establish the focus on the learning process. Making assessment central to student learning is about returning to what current research emphasises: the primary beneficiary of...

   Published August 10th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Politics of American Actor Training

   Edited by Ellen Margolis, Lissa Tyler Renaud

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   The essays in this volume address the historical, social, colonial, and administrative contexts that determine today's U.S. actor training, as well as matters of identity politics, access, and marginalization as they emerge in classrooms and rehearsal halls. It considers persistent, questioning...

   Published June 5th 2011 by Routledge
8. E-Moderating

   The Key to Online Teaching and Learning, 3rd Edition

   By Gilly Salmon

   Professor Gilly Salmon has achieved continuity and illumination of the seminal five stage model, together with new research-based developments, in her much-awaited third edition of E-Moderating—the most quoted and successful guide for e-learning practitioners. Never content to offer superficial...

   Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge
9. Promoting Diversity and Social Justice

   Educating People from Privileged Groups, Second Edition

   By Diane J. Goodman

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   Promoting Diversity and Social Justice provides theories, perspectives, and strategies that are useful for working with adults from privileged groups—those who are in a more powerful position in any given type of oppression. The thoroughly revised edition of this accessible and practical guide...

   Published March 28th 2011 by Routledge
10. Universities and Global Diversity

    Preparing Educators for Tomorrow

    Edited by Beverly Lindsay, Wanda J. Blanchett

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on several continents, taking into account the extensive changes in economic, sociopolitical, and cultural dynamics within nations and regions that have...

    Published February 15th 2011 by Routledge