1st Edition

University Challenge Critical Issues for Teaching and Learning

By Tony Harland Copyright 2020
192 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

University Challenge: Critical Issues for Teaching and Learning offers a nuanced and critical reading of university teaching, particularly the pressures under which academics in neoliberal, mass higher education must operate. It provides exciting thinking about slow pedagogies, powerful knowledge, the assessment arms race and the concept of vanilla teaching. Eight challenges currently... Read more

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction: unfamiliar academic territory?

Chapter 2. Assessing and grading

Chapter 3. Teaching to meet all students’ learning needs

Chapter 4. Space and time in academic life

Chapter 5. Teaching critic and conscience of society

Chapter 6. Critical thinking

Chapter 7. Learning to teach

Chapter 8. Being accountable for student’s learning

Chapter 9. Competitive students

Chapter 10. Other challenges

References

Index

Biography

Tony Harland is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is also Chair of the Ecology Board of Studies and lectures in marine ecology. Tony’s education research concerns academic and student values, and how these impact on academic work, student learning and the university.