Analysing Teaching-Learning Interactions in Higher Education (Hardcover)

Dr Paul Ashwin

ISBN 10: 0826494188 / ISBN 13: 9780826494184

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 2009

About this Item

Hardcover. Whilst current research into teaching and learning offers many insights into the experiences of academics and students in higher education, it has two significant shortcomings. It does not highlight the dynamic ways in which students and academics impact on each other in teaching-learning interactions or the ways in which these interactions are shaped by wider social processes.This book offers critical insight into existing perspectives on researching teaching and learning in higher education and argues that alternative perspectives are required in order to account for structure and agency in teaching-learning interactions in higher education. In considering four alternative perspectives, it examines the ways in which teaching-learning interactions are shaped by teaching-learning environments, student and academic identities, disciplinary knowledge practices and institutional cultures. It concludes by examining the conceptual and methodological implications of these analyses of teaching-learning interactions and provides the reader with an invaluable guide to alternative ways of conceptualising and researching teaching and learning in higher education. Presents a monograph investigating the research, development, policy and practice of teaching and learning in Higher Education. This title offers readers an insight into the way in which teaching and learning in higher education have been researched and explained. It places these explanations in the broader context of social science research. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Analysing Teaching-Learning Interactions in Higher Education (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826494188
• ISBN 13: 9780826494184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Whilst current research into teaching and learning offers many insights into the experiences of academics and students in higher education, it has two significant shortcomings. It does not highlight the dynamic ways in which students and academics impact on each other in teaching-learning interactions or the ways in which these interactions are shaped by wider social processes.

This book offers critical insight into existing perspectives on researching teaching and learning in higher education and argues that alternative perspectives are required in order to account for structure and agency in teaching-learning interactions in higher education. In considering four alternative perspectives, it examines the ways in which teaching-learning interactions are shaped by teaching-learning environments, student and academic identities, disciplinary knowledge practices and institutional cultures. It concludes by examining the conceptual and methodological implications of these analyses of teaching-learning interactions and provides the reader with an invaluable guide to alternative ways of conceptualising and researching teaching and learning in higher education.

About the Author

Paul Ashwin is Professor of Higher Education at Lancaster University, UK.