Pedagogy in Basic and Higher Education

Pedagogy in Basic and Higher Education

Author: Kirsi Tirri

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-02-19

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1838802673

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This book takes a holistic approach to pedagogy and argues that the purpose of education is to educate the student's whole personality including cognitive, social, and moral domains. The four sections and twelve chapters address the current pedagogical challenges in basic and higher education in international contexts. The authors describe the principles and practices through which meaningful education is promoted and enhanced in a variety of ways. The challenges educators face in their profession as well as ways to overcome them are elaborated on both theoretically and empirically. The book allows both researchers, teachers, and educational policy makers to reflect on current developments, challenges, and areas of development in educational institutions when aiming to support student growth and learning.


The Pedagogy of Compassion at the Heart of Higher Education

The Pedagogy of Compassion at the Heart of Higher Education

Author: Paul Gibbs

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 3319577832

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This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst locating the university within society. It reflects a balancing of the instrumentalization of higher education as a mode of employment training and enhances the notion of the students’ well-being being at the core of the university mission. Compassion is examined in this volume as a weaving of diverse cultures and beliefs into a way of recognizing that diversity through a common good offers a way of preparing students and staff for a complex and anxious world. This book provides theoretical and practical discussions of compassion in higher education, it draws contributors from around the world and offers illustrations of compassion in action through a number of international cases studies..


Applied Pedagogies for Higher Education

Applied Pedagogies for Higher Education

Author: Dawn A. Morley

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-11-05

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 3030469514

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This open access book critiques real world learning across both the curriculum and extracurricular activities. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as business, health, fashion, sociology and geography, the editors and authors employ a cross-disciplinary approach to examine how this concept is being applied in higher education. Divided into three parts, the authors and contributors analyse broader applications of real world learning, student experience of practicing in a real world setting, and how learning strategies can be employed to engage students in real world learning. The editors and contributors provide up-to-date, cross-disciplinary and international insights into how real world learning could be integrated into the higher education curriculum to support effective, relevant and life-long learning for 21st century students.


Pedagogy in Higher Education

Pedagogy in Higher Education

Author: Gordon Wells

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-18

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1107014654

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This edited volume addresses the potential of Cultural Historical Activity Theory as an analytic tool in debates over higher education reform.


Towards a Pedagogy of Higher Education

Towards a Pedagogy of Higher Education

Author: Gunnlaugur Magnússon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-02-28

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780367515058

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Towards a Pedagogy of Higher Education illustrates how international policy shifts, primarily the Bologna-process, have affected debates around both the purpose and organisation of higher education at different levels. This book formulates a theory of teaching in higher education which is grounded in educational theory, contributing to a critical perspective on current ideal forms of higher education and a deeper understanding of the pedagogical role of the university. It illustrates how international policies affect conceptualizations of the purpose of higher education and critically examines the pedagogy of higher education in order to develop a comprehensive educational theory for teaching in higher education. The book illustrates the consequences of discursive ideals of education on teaching practices and provides a theoretical framework for new thinking on higher education. Offering a unique contribution that combines policy analyses, curriculum theory, and educational theory, this book will appeal to academics, scholars and post graduate students in the field of higher education research and teaching, educational theory and educational policy.


Pedagogy of the Depressed

Pedagogy of the Depressed

Author: Christopher Schaberg

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2021-12-16

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1501364596

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This book is one English professor's assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warnings to learning management systems and the COVID pandemic, Christopher Schaberg reflects on the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education. Adopting an interdisciplinary public humanities approach, Schaberg considers the frequently exhausting and depressing realities of college today. Yet in these meditations he also finds hope: collaboration, mentoring, less grading, surface reading, and other pedagogical strategies open up opportunities to reinvigorate teaching and learning in the current turbulent decade.


Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice

Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice

Author: Kelly Freebody

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-07

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 303026484X

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This book explores how the concepts of social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion can be understood within the context of higher education. While terms such as these are often in common use in universities, they are not always used with clarity and precision. The editors and contributors offer a serious and detailed examination of pressing contemporary concerns around ‘social justice’ across politics, practice and pedagogy in order to encourage hard thinking and practical agenda setting for social-justice oriented research, teaching and community engagement. Drawing upon new theoretical work, research projects and innovative university teaching, this book offers both useful theoretical insights and practical possibilities for action. This collective and collaborative volume will be of interest and value to all those interested in promoting social justice, in particular how it can be promoted within the university setting.


Environment and Pedagogy in Higher Education

Environment and Pedagogy in Higher Education

Author: Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1498531083

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The commitment to participate in ecological protection has grown considerably and, in the academic world, it has been tackled primarily by the Social Sciences. The Humanities has followed suit and several books have dealt with the reasons why such commitment is essential and morally imperative. What has been crucially lacking, however, are books that propose concrete pedagogical approaches to the study of environmental issues and aim at inspiring and motivating both educators and students to become actively engaged in the pursuit of ecological preservation. It is here that this book comes into play. Faced with the polluting of the earth, the devastating effect of climate change, and the inequalities of North/South resources to counter the throes of environmental degradation, our responsibility as educators and in particular as eco-pedagogues is to engage in theoretical discourses on the subject matter but also to begin to provide practitioners in all fields with essential tools to shape an ecological sense of consciousness among future leaders of the earth: our students.


Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Author: Mick Healey

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781951414054

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Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education offers detailed guidance to scholars at all stages-experienced and new academics, graduate students, and undergraduates-regarding how to write about learning and teaching in higher education. It evokes established practices, recommends new ones, and challenges readers to expand notions of scholarship by describing reasons for publishing across a range of genres, from the traditional empirical research article to modes such as stories and social media that are newly recognized in scholarly arenas. The book provides practical guidance for scholars in writing each genre-and in getting them published. To illustrate how choices about writing play out in practice, we share throughout the book our own experiences as well as reflections from a range of scholars, including both highly experienced, widely published experts and newcomers to writing about learning and teaching in higher education. The diversity of voices we include is intended to complement the variety of genres we discuss, enacting as well as arguing for an embrace of multiplicity in writing about learning and teaching in higher education.


Learner Relationships in Global Higher Education

Learner Relationships in Global Higher Education

Author: David Killick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-12

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1000372588

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Providing the academic community with a robust and highly practical insight into the importance of implementing relationship building into the learning environment and experiences of all students, underpinned by current research, this innovative volume explores intercultural learning and critical pedagogy in the borderless university. By revealing cutting-edge theoretical perspectives and practice which can facilitate critical connections between diverse students, their learning, curriculum, each other, and their communities, Learner Relationships in Global Higher Education integrates academic and student perspectives on relationship development into academic practice. Drawing upon case studies and examples of good practice from across the globe, this book illustrates how practitioners in diverse contexts are designing student experiences in face-to-face and online contexts on- and off-campus to advance learner relationships. By situating this work in a critical pedagogy perspective, the book advances internationalisation in and for a global and multicultural world. In the changing contexts of global higher education, this book is a valuable tool for higher education researchers and practitioners at all stages of their careers.