Reviews: Higher education staff
5 reviews found for "Higher education staff"
- Book review : Changing identities in higher education : voicing perspectives
- This is a book review of Changing identities in higher education : voicing perspectives edited by Ron Barnett and Roberto Di Napoli, published by Routledge in 2008, ISBN 9780415426053. It was reviewed on behalf of ESCalate by Deborah Lee of Nottingham Trent University. This book brings together academics, managers, educational developers and students to give their perspectives on identities in contemporary higher education. Part I, offers...
- Book review : Writing for academic journals
- This is a book review of Writing for academic journals by Rowena Murray, published by the Open University Press in 2005, ISBN 9780335213924. It was reviewed by Linda Barlow-Meade of Northumbria University on behalf of ESCalate. This book aims to develop academic writing skills and thereby increase the likelihood of successful submissions of academic papers. Murray makes the point that there is an assumption that writing is what academics ‘do’....
- Book Review: The Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning: Understanding Effective Teaching and Learning in Diverse Contexts
- This edited collection, drawing on a 2005 conference held at the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, imagines the reader to be of catholic tastes to say the least. Chapters in this collection, drawing on a range of research projects variously funded by the TLRP, cover topics as diverse as academic identities within UK and Australian Higher Education, the literacy practices of vocational students within Further Education colleges in both...
- Book Review: Greener by Degrees: Exploring Sustainability through Higher Education Curricula
- A resource for both educational developers within higher education institutions and higher education practitioners in general. It is a demonstration of the complexity of the theme education for sustainable development (ESD) as well as an attempt to apply perspectives of it to specific learning and teaching units in degree programmes. It uses a predominantly action learning approach as a means of developing literacy in sustainability amongst...
- Book review : On being a mentor : a guide for higher education faculty
- This is a book review of On being a mentor : a guide for higher education faculty, by W.Brad Johnson, published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates in 2006, ISBN 0805848975. It was reviewed by Richard Clarke of the University of Wales, Newport in behalf of ESCalate. This book has a very American focus to it. The distinction made between mentoring and “academic advising” would probably be seen by many staff working in the UK as a slightly false...