Educational development : discourse, identity and practice
Drawing on issues relating to quality in teaching and learning this book focuses on the work and research of educators concerned with the enhancement of the student experience in higher education
Print Book, English, 2004
Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, Maidenhead, 2004
xi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780335213290, 9780335213283, 0335213294, 0335213286
56655706
Introduction: A Catching Fire? 1. Orientations to Educational Development )·Managerialist ·Political-Strategic ·Entrepreneurial ·Romantic (Ecological Humanist) ·Opportunist ·Researcher ·Professional Competence ·Reflective Practitioner ·Internal Consultant ·Modeller-Broker ·Interpretive-Hermeneutic ·Provocateur Discipline-specific Variation2. Stances on Change·'And who are you, anyway?' - chane and perceived resistance·Diffusion Stances·Systemic stances ·Rationality stances ·Motivational stances ·Power stances ·Bricolage stances ·Ambiguity stances ·Contingency stances ·Change and acceptance ·Development and 'progress' ·Change and eclecticism ·Correspondences between orientations to educational development and conceptions of change3. Strategic Terrain: The Educational Developer and Academic Cultures· Identifying Organisational Cultures · Academic Terrain · Management and organizational structure · Orientations to educational development and academic cultures · Tribalism · Cultural Traffic · Metaphors for culture Postscript· Educational development and modernism · Community, diversity and fracture · Vocation and professional status References