Theorising Learning to Teach in Higher Education

Theorising Learning to Teach in Higher Education
Author: Brenda Leibowitz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317195728

Theorising Learning to Teach in Higher Education provides both lecturers embarking on a career in higher education and established members of staff with the capacity to improve their teaching. The process of learning to teach, and the associated field of professional academic development for teaching, is absolutely central to higher education. Offering innovative alternatives to some of the dominant work on teaching theory, this volume explores three significant approaches in detail: critical and social realist, social practice and sociomaterial approaches, which are divided into four sections: Sociomaterialism Practice theories Critical and social realism Crossover perspectives. Readers will benefit from discussions on the role and place of theory in the process of learning to teach, whilst international case studies demonstrate the kinds of insights and recommendations that could emanate from the three approaches examined, drawing together contributions from Europe, Africa and Australasia. Both challenging and enlightening, this book argues the need for theory in order to advance scholarship in the field and achieve goals related to social justice in higher education systems across the world. It draws attention to newly emerging theoretical perspectives and relatively underused perspectives to demonstrate the need for theory in relation to learning to teach. This book will appeal to academics interested in how they come to learn to teach, to administrators and academic developers responsible for professional development strategies at universities and masters and PhD level students researching professional development in higher education.

Theorising Teaching in Secondary Classrooms

Theorising Teaching in Secondary Classrooms
Author: Beverley Bell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: High school teaching
ISBN: 9780415584197

Theorising Teaching in Secondary Classrooms is a brand new text for all teachers endeavouring to understand their own practice. It provides a serious introduction to how to holistically reflect on and conceptualise your classroom teaching by helping you situate your practice within the international theory on teaching, and the social, cultural and institutional contexts for teaching. It challenges you to: critically reflect on your own practice articulate your own theorising of pedagogical practice describe and evaluate your own theorising within the international research and literature critique and discuss current pedagogical issues being debated nationally and internationally.

Practical Theorising in Teacher Education

Practical Theorising in Teacher Education
Author: Katharine Burn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2022-07-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000613755

This insightful collection offers a timely contribution to the body of research on practical theorising in teacher education. Acknowledging the importance of experience and reflective practice in teaching, this book simultaneously embraces the essential need for teachers at all career stages to engage effectively and critically with evidence from research. Drawing together a range of perspectives from university-based and school-based teacher educators, this book examines the challenges and critiques advanced when practical theorising was first proposed, as well as recent tensions created by the performative culture that now pervades education. It illustrates the constant renegotiation and renewal necessary to sustain such an approach to beginners’ learning, investigating a range of tools developed by teacher educators to help beginning teachers navigate these demands. Demonstrating the value of practical theorising and therefore promoting powerful professional learning for practitioners, this book is essential for teachers at all career stages, including trainee teachers and student teachers.

Re-theorising Learning and Research Methods in Learning Research

Re-theorising Learning and Research Methods in Learning Research
Author: Crina Damşa
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2023-09-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 100095952X

Re-Theorising Learning and Research Methods in Learning Research explores the latest developments in the field of learning theory, offering an overview of emerging methods and demonstrating how recent research contributes to furthering understanding of learning. This book illustrates how theory and methods inform one another, facilitating advancements in the field, while addressing the ways in which societal and technological change create a need for adapting approaches to examining learning. Drawing on an international team of contributors, this book comprises 17 chapters and three commentaries, thematically organised into three broad sections: emerging theories and conceptualisations of learning and how they drive methodological development new methods or innovative use of existing methods and their contribution to theory development theories and methods that emerge in connection with societal changes Both novice researchers and more experienced scholars will benefit from an overview of recent theoretical and methodological advances in the learning research field. This is an invaluable resource for researchers in the learning and educational research field and will also support Masters and PhD students to understand how learning theories and research methodology in the field have been evolving in recent years.

Learning Theories

Learning Theories
Author: Firend Al. R.
Publisher: IJBMR.org
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The theories herewith are the most commonly discussed in educational psychology textbooks, and are studied by most students in schools of education. The theories discussed in this book, are applicable in real setting of higher education, through a process of experimentation and practice. The three main classifications of learning theories are, behaviorism, cognitivist, and constructivism. Al of which, provides a rubric and guideline for educators that help in the process of selecting teaching methodology, techniques, approaches, strategies and tools. Moreover, only through practice, an educator can develop a best practice that best fit the teacher student’s relationship according to culture, capacity of the learner, learning styles and many other constraints and resources to be taken into consideration. This book highlight the fact that certain theories and learning styles tend to be particularly important in international learning setting, whereby students are culturally diverse, and particularly if they are of “High Context Societies”, as explained in this book.

Exploring Learning & Teaching in Higher Education

Exploring Learning & Teaching in Higher Education
Author: Mang Li
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-10-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9783642553516

The focus of this book is on exploring effective strategies in higher education that promote meaningful learning and go beyond discipline boundaries, with a special emphasis on Subjectivity Learning, Refreshing Lecturing, Learning through Construction, Learning through Transaction, Transformative Learning, Using Technology, and Assessment for Learning and Teaching in particular. The research collected in this book is all based on empirical studies and includes research methods and findings that will be of great interest to teachers and researchers in the area of higher education. The main benefit readers will derive from this book is a meaningful insight into what other teachers around the world are doing in higher education and what lessons they have learned, which will support them in their own teaching.

A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Author: Stephanie Marshall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2014-08-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317650220

This entirely new edition of a very successful book focuses on developing professional academic skills for supporting and supervising student learning and effective teaching. It is built on the premise that the roles of those who teach in higher education are complex and multi-faceted. A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is sensitive to the competing demands of teaching, research, scholarship, and academic management. The new edition reflects and responds to the rapidly changing context of higher education and to current understanding of how to best support student learning. Drawing together a large number of expert authors, it continues to feature extensive use of case studies that show how successful teachers have implemented these ideas. It includes key topics such as student engagement and motivation, internationalisation, employability, inclusive strategies for teaching, effective use of technology and issues relating to postgraduate students and student retention. Part 1 explores a number of aspects of the context of UK higher education that affect the education of students, looking at the drivers of institutional behaviours and how to achieve success as a university teacher. Part 2 examines learning, teaching and supervising in higher education and includes chapters on working with diversity, encouraging independent learning and learning gain. Part 3 considers approaches to teaching and learning in different disciplines, covering a full range including arts and humanities, social sciences, experimental sciences through to medicine and dentistry. Written to support the excellence in teaching and learning design required to bring about student learning of the highest quality, this will be essential reading for all new lecturers, particularly anyone taking an accredited course in teaching and learning in higher education, as well as those experienced lecturers who wish to improve their teaching practice. Those working in adult learning and educational development will also find the book to be a particularly useful resource. In addition it will appeal to staff who support learning and teaching in various other roles.

Theorising Teaching in Secondary Classrooms

Theorising Teaching in Secondary Classrooms
Author: Beverley Bell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2011-11-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136578765

Theorising Teaching in Secondary Classrooms is for all teachers who wish to fully understand and improve upon their own practice. It encourages you to reflect on and conceptualise your teaching, and helps you understand how your practice is connected to the social, cultural, political and institutional contexts in which you teach.Considering the la

An Introduction to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

An Introduction to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Author: Peter Scales
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-10-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0335262414

This book is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to learning and teaching in higher education, and an invaluable resource if you are seeking to enhance and develop your teaching in the context of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). It also supports your progress towards Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), with an overview of the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) and linking content to the framework. This book is for new and existing teachers in higher education and those teaching higher education programmes in further education colleges. As well as helping you enhance and extend your understanding of the theory and practice of learning and teaching, this book encourages you to reflect on and improve your teaching in higher education to meet the needs of a diversity of students in the changing landscape of higher education. Together with its progressive and logical sequencing of topics - covering planning and preparation; techniques, methods and resources; assessment, quality and evaluation - the book provides: • A core text and resource for new teachers in higher education undertaking postgraduate programmes in learning and teaching. • An accessible and practical introduction to the knowledge and skills required to become a confident and effective lecturer in higher education • Mapping to the HEA UK Professional Standards Framework to provide guidance and support for those working towards Fellowship of the HEA together with sample Fellowship applications • 'Pause & Reflect' boxes to reinforce your professional learning journey "This book is not only an excellent introduction to learning and teaching in university but also for those providing higher level learning in further education colleges." Vicky Duckworth, Reader in Education, Edge Hill University, UK "This wide-ranging almost encyclopedic book touches on all the topics and issues that someone new to higher education is required to address. Scales provides a guide for the new higher education teacher through the confusing and confused world of higher education in order that they can remain a teacher despite institutional distractions." Dennis Hayes, Professor of Education, University of Derby, UK "This book provides a welcome and timely addition which will be of huge value to anybody with an interest in teaching and learning in higher education. It will be of particular value to those new to teaching in the higher education sector as well as more experienced staff who wish to update their skills or apply for Higher Education Academy recognition." Chris Wakeman, Head of Education and Inclusion Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK "Peter Scales shares my dislike for the word ‘delivery’ to describe teaching and clearly explains why! The text is passionate, readable and engaging with a logical presentation of the lived experiences of teaching in higher education.” Beverley Hale, Professor of Learning and Teaching, University of Chichester, UK