The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: (Helping Students Learn)

This book is designed for lecturers on a wide range of professional courses. It directly addresses questions that come up again and again in seminar discussions; questions that are fundamental to the values and perspectives of academics across the disciplines: What is meant by the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education? What is the purpose of higher education? Are lecturers really 'students' on these courses? How do you do 'reflective' writing? What do we do with all this theory and jargon? What does CPD in this area involve? How do you do 'research' on teaching and learning? This book does not treat each element of the curriculum separately – course design, assessment, evaluation of teaching etc. – since that approach has been well handled by others. Instead, like other books in the series, it addresses elements of the curriculum in an integrated way, thereby educating the reader in how to approach a range of higher education related issues. This book provides a scholarly introduction to the literature on these questions. Like other books in the series, it offers a concise treatment of complex questions. It also provides directions for future study.Contributors: Matthew Alexander, Glynis Cousin, Helen Fallon, Ian Finlay, Diana Kelly, Ruth Lowry, Marion McCarthy, Rowena Murray, Jacqueline Potter, Christine Sinclair, Sarah Skerratt and Barry Stierer.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Chapter 1 The scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education: an overview Chapter 2 What's learning for? - interrogating the scholarship of teaching and learning Chapter 3 Lecturers as students - in a 'meaningful' sense Chapter 4 Learning to write about teaching: understanding the writing demands of lecturer development programmes in Higher Education Chapter 5 Resources on higher education teaching and learning Chapter 6 Starting with the discipline Chapter 7 Beyond common sense: a practitioner’s perspective Chapter 8 Evaluating teaching and learning: enhancing the scholarship of teaching by asking students what they are learning Chapter 9 Evidencing scholarship Chapter 10 Doing small-scale qualitative research on educational innovation Chapter 11 Doing small-scale quantitative research on educational innovation Chapter 12 Combining qualitative and quantitative: mixed-methods in small-scale research Chapter 13 Writing for publication about teaching and learning

About the Author :
Rowena Murray is Associate Dean (Research) at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. She carries out research on writing, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and British Academy. Her other bestselling books with Open University Press include How to Write a Thesis, How to Survive Your Viva and The Handbook of Academic Writing (written with Sarah Moore). Rowena is also Editor of the Helping Students to Learn Series and edited the first volume The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.