This impactful series provides academics with a scholarly gateway into essential aspects of higher education practice. Perfect for those engaged in HE study, educational leadership roles, academic staff or anyone seeking to explore particular topics of interest. Delve into each text as it explores individual topics in depth connecting research, teaching, community engagement and leadership while developing confidence and authority.
By Aneta Hayes, Nicholas Garnett, Joy Jarvis, Karen Mpamhanga
April 02, 2025
An innovative take on the controversial question of teaching excellence in Higher Education (HE). After critiquing the very idea of 'measuring' teaching excellence, Hayes and Garnett offer a critical approach to re-conceptualising and measuring teaching excellence and the controversies surrounding ...
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By Nicola Martin, Mike Wray, Joanna Krupa
March 17, 2025
This book delves into the underpinning principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) which is all about delivering an inclusive teaching and learning experience from the start rather than adapting existing programmes to new student needs. As part of the Critical Practice in Higher Education ...
By Donna Hurford, Andrew Read, Joy Jarvis, Karen Mpamhanga
May 16, 2022
This book offers university teachers informed and practical strategies for raising awareness of bias in teaching, learning and assessment practices. Conscious and unconscious biases influence judgements, perceptions, decision making and actions, and societal awareness has now turned the spotlight ...
By Catherine Bovill, Joy Jarvis, Karen Mpamhanga
April 20, 2020
Co-creation of learning and teaching, where students and staff collaborate to design curricula or elements of curricula, is an important pedagogical idea within higher education, key to meaningful learner engagement and building positive student-staff relationships. Drawing on literature from ...
By Joy Jarvis, Karen Clark, Karen Mpamhanga
May 01, 2020
This book highlights the importance of academic staff having focused conversations about teaching. The emphasis is on using this approach to build individual and team capacity and to bring about institutional change. It emphasises the distributed nature of expertise in teaching which exists at all...
By Julian McDougall, Joy Jarvis, Karen Mpamhanga
September 03, 2021
Online learning has become an increasing presence in higher education course design, with most courses combining physical real time engagement with asynchronous learning activity. Now, however, there is a greater need for this one-stop guide to critical practice in this area, as we rethink the role...
By Mike Seal, Alan Smith, Joy Jarvis, Karen Mpamhanga
September 03, 2021
An introduction to critical pedagogy for all those working within higher education. Critical Pedagogy is an approach that is fundamentally democratic, informal, non-hierarchical, determined by participants, privileges the oppressed and their perspectives and is committed to action. Higher education...
By Karen Mpamhanga, Joy Jarvis
April 20, 2020
This book offers a clear and concise introduction to transnational higher education. Drawing on research, current sector guidance and policy, it asks critical questions about the role and nature of transnational education, motivations for engaging in transnational education, how transnational ...
By Marita Grimwood, Steve McHanwell, Joy Jarvis, Karen Mpamhanga
September 16, 2024
This book demonstrates how university lecturers can document their impactful teaching and evidence their teaching achievements in the contemporary HE landscape. It is an essential read for all lecturers who might need to evidence their achievements for academic development including job promotions ...
By Harriet Jones, Karen Mpamhanga, Hilary Orpin, Joy Jarvis, Gemma Mansi, Catherine Molesworth, Heather Monsey
January 16, 2023
This book will help all academic staff in higher education (HE) develop more informed teaching and better support students as they transition to university. It explores the organisations who advise students pre-university and uncovers the myths and misconceptions held by HE stakeholders. Induction ...