Rich Pickings: Creative Professional Development Activities for University Lecturers (Bold Visions in Educational Research, Band 65) - Hardcover

Loads, Daphne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004389946 ISBN 13: 9789004389946

Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Rich Pickings: Creative Professional Development Activities for University Teachers offers both inspiration and practical advice for academics who want to develop their teaching in ways that go beyond the merely technical, and for the academic developers who support them. Advocating active engagement with literary and nonliterary texts as one way of prompting deep thinking about teaching practice and teacher identities, Daphne Loads shows how to read poems, stories, academic papers and policy documents in ways that stay with the physicality of words: how they sound, how they look on the page or the screen, how they feel in the mouth. She invites readers to bring into play associations, allusions, memories and insights, to examine their own ways of meaning making and to ask what all of this means for their development as teachers. Bringing together scholarship and experiential activities, the author challenges both academics and academic developers to reject narrowly instrumental approaches to professional development; bring teachers and teaching into view, in contrast with misguided interpretations of student-centredness that tend to erase them from the picture; claim back literary writings as a source of wisdom and insight; trust readers' responses; and reintroduce beauty and joy into university teaching that has come to be perceived as bleak and unfulfilling.

This book does not attempt to construct a single, coherent argument but rather to indicate a range of good things to choose from. Readers are encouraged to explore the overlaps and the gaps.

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Daphne Loads, EdD, SFHE, is an academic developer in the Institute for Academic Development at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She writes on academic identities and arts-enriched academic development.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004389946
• ISBN 13: 9789004389946
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 92
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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