Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Disciplinary Approaches to Educational Enquiry
- Elizabeth Cleaver - University of the West of England, UK
- Maxine Lintern - Birmingham City University, UK
- Mike McLinden - University of Birmingham, UK
In today's higher education climate academic staff are encouraged to focus not only on the up-to-date content of their teaching, but also to identify the most effective ways to engage students in learning, often alongside other key transferrable skills. This had led to a growing requirement for staff to adopt a scholarly approach to learning and teaching practice, and to undertake scholarship of learning and teaching as part of ongoing professional development.
This text explores broad best practice approaches to undertaking enquiry into learning and teaching in higher education. It provides an introduction for staff who have been educated within a range of academic disciplines, often with high-level but very focused knowledge about, and understandings of, research processes to the potentially new world of educational enquiry. This is complemented by chapters exploring what educational enquiry means in the context of different academic disciplines, including physical sciences, mathematics, engineering, the life sciences, the arts, the humanities, the health professions, and law.
It also includes:
- An overview of research methodology including data collection, literature reviews, good ethical practice, and research dissemination
- Case studies of actual research projects to support understanding of how to carry out educational enquiry in practice.
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Focus on Educational Enquiry Chapters which deal with individual dicsiplines relevant to this University. However there is no chapter relating to the discipline of Education.
Although this book was useful it did not meet all the needs of the course
Insightful and very helpful.
This book supports our core reading material
A really useful book for current contexts where co-production across the academy is encouraged. Helps build research bridges between academic areas enabling the development of better practice. The overview of research methodology and dissemination, along with case studies of actual research projects really support understanding of how to carry out educational enquiry in practice.
Provide background information for my students.
We will use and refer to chapter 1 to 9 in our teaching as the the texts in the book is right to the point as regards to bridging educational enquiry onto the subjects represented in our course. However, since our courses are tailored to math and science teaching, we need to include reading suitable for chemistry, biology, geology as well and since the matter of educational enquiry makes upp for one of three themes in the course, the whole book would make up for too big a part of the total course reading.
An interesting and informative book for both students and new lecturers.
Very useful text, good advise and guidence.
