Teaching for Understanding at University
Deep Approaches and Distinctive Ways of Thinking
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Beschreibung
Research into how teaching affects the quality of student learning at university is a rapidly changing field. University teachers are increasingly required to develop their own strategies for effective teaching, often with limited guidance from their institutions. Teaching for Understanding at University not only outlines a wide range of recent developments in the area, but shows how approaches can be brought together to help university teachers think more imaginatively about ways of encouraging students' learning.
Written in a way designed to be interesting and accessible to university teachers across disciplines, the volume concentrates on how students reach a personal understanding of the subject they are studying. Covering academic understanding, approaches to teaching, assessment methods and evaluation of teaching, the book provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest ideas on teaching and learning. Avoiding unnecessary jargon and 'business speak', this is the ideal book for the newly qualified lecturer, as well as the more experienced academic who is keen to consider their teaching methods from a fresh perspective.
Noel Entwistle is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Edinburgh. He was previously the editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and Higher Education, and has an international reputation for his work in the field of student learning in higher education.
This book brings together a range of research findings and professional experience about the effects of teaching on the quality of learning at university, encouraging university teachers to think broadly and imaginatively about approaches to teaching in their own area to help students develop deep, personal understandings of the subject.
Written in a way designed to be interesting and accessible to university teachers across all disciplines
It not only describes a wide range of recent research, but shows how different approaches can be brought together to help university teachers think more imaginatively about ways of encouraging student learning.
Concentrates on how students reach a personal understanding of the subject they are studying, and on the implications of the distinctiveness of the characteristic ways of thinking required in the contrasting subject areas of HE.
Presents guidelines for effective university teaching, but in a way that encourages teachers to think for themselves about teaching in their own discipline or subject area, and in the context of their own institution.
Avoids unnecessary jargon, explaining whatever is used in simple terms, and steers clear of the new managerial 'business speak', concentrating on the language of education.
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Noel Entwistle