The Future of Higher Education
Subtitle: Policy, Pedagogy and the Student Experience
By: Professor Les Bell is Emeritus Professor of Educational Management at the School of Education, University of Leicester and Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Lincoln. Dr Howard Stevenson is now Deputy Director of the Centre for Educational Research and Development at the University of Lincoln. Professor Mike Neary is Professor and Dean of Teaching and Learning at Lincoln University, and Director of the University's Centre for Educational Research and Development.
Contributors: Karran, Terence; Neary, Mike; Thody, Angela; Ngwana, Terfot; Beckton, Julian; Crawford, Karin; Watling, Sue; Morris, Aileen; Hagyard, Andy; Winn, Joss; Locker, Pam
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 15th April 2009
ISBN-13: 9781847064721
Subjects: Education; Higher Education; Education Studies
Description: The Future of Higher Education explores policy, pedagogy and the student experience at a conceptual level, enabling university staff to place their own work within a wider theoretical framework and to develop their own understandings of some of the key controversies that surround teaching and learning in higher education. Part 1 explores key policies that have shaped higher education since the late twentieth century, and traces the impact that these policies have had on the extent and nature of higher education provision.
Part 2 explores how these emerging policies, and the need for higher education institutions to respond to them, have produced a radical re-evaluation of what higher education is and how it might best be delivered at an institutional level.
Part 3 gives consideration to pedagogy and the student experience in contemporary higher education. The Future of Higher Education will be invaluable to all university staff, especially those following the PGCertHE and other programmes within institutional CPD frameworks. It will also be of interest to researchers in this field.
Table of contents: value: Introduction – Universities in Transition: themes in higher education policy. Howard Stevenson and Les Bell; value: Academic Freedom: essential liberty or extravagant luxury? Terence Karran; value: Learning Landscapes: designing a classroom of the future. Mike Neary and Angela Thody; value: Learning and Teaching for Sustainable Development in Higher Education: examining dissonance and instructional strategy. Terfot Ngwana; value: Educational Development Units: the challenge of quality enhancement in a changing environment. Julian Beckton; value: Continuing Professional Development in Higher Education: tensions and debates in a changing environment. Karin Crawford; value: Technology-Enhanced Learning: a new digital divide? Sue Watling; value: The Stretched Academy: the learning experience of mature students from under-represented groups. Aileen Morris; value: Student Intelligence: challenging received wisdom in student surveys. Andy Hagyard; value: The Student as Producer: reinventing the student experience in higher education. Mike Neary and Joss Winn; value: The Learning Landscape: views with endless possibilities. Pam Locker