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Reading Guide
Who this book is for
For university teachers, educational developers and students investigating teacher development in higher education. The collection uses one institution’s experiences to make the relation between educational ideas and actual practice discussable. It invites critical professional learning rather than offering a universal sequence of techniques guaranteed to work in any classroom.
Prerequisites
Experience of university study and an introductory understanding of teaching and learning are useful. Teaching experience helps with reflection but is not required; readers can analyse an observed class instead of their own practice.
What it covers
Essays and case studies connect research-based education, the purposes of a university, disciplinary knowledge and students’ participation in learning. Staff and student perspectives show how practices are reconfigured within a research-intensive institution. Differences between disciplines matter to the argument: a successful activity must be understood in relation to what students are trying to learn and how teachers recognise progress.
How to use it
Choose a case near your discipline and identify its educational aim, assumptions about students and evidence of learning. Compare it with a familiar class, recording differences in resources, assessment and institutional setting before transferring the idea. Design one modest change and specify what observation would help you evaluate it. Invite a colleague or student to offer an alternative interpretation. Write a reflection that links a concrete teaching decision to a theoretical argument, including one limitation of your evidence.
Edition and sources
The 2018 UCL IOE Press volume is available in full as the published version through the editors’ institutional repository. The repository’s free access does not by itself establish a blanket Creative Commons permission; consult the file and publisher terms for reuse. The UCL focus is a source of detailed cases and also a boundary on generalisation. Official complete reading route.
