Exploring disciplinary teaching excellence in higher education : student-staff partnerships for research / Marion Heron, Laura Barnett, Kieran Balloo, editors.

This book explores disciplinary teaching excellence through a diverse range of student-staff partnership research projects. Despite being a highly contested term, teaching excellence is something that universities aspire to and are expected to achieve. However, the editors and contributors argue tha...

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Other Authors: Heron, Marion (Editor)
Barnett, Laura (Editor)
Balloo, Kieran (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2021]
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Physical Description:xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword; Charmagne Barnes
  • Chapter 1: Preface Laura Barnett, Kieran Balloo, and Marion Heron
  • Chapter 2: Exploring excellence in disciplinary contexts through student-staff partnerships Laura Barnett, Marion Heron, Kieran Balloo, Malina Pricop and Sophie Williams
  • Chapter 3: What teaching excellence means to undergraduate students in their discipline Alfred Thumser and Julia Matyjasiak
  • Chapter 4: Evaluating teaching excellence from a disciplinary perspective Charlotte Foreman and Ali Musawi
  • Chapter 5: Exploring notions of excellence in tutorials and lectures within the discipline Vasco Gabriel and Michelle Ly
  • Chapter 6: Students as Co-Creators of Visual Mnemonics using LEGO: an evaluation of revision sessions using an adapted Lego Serious Play (LSP) methodology.Debbie Gooch, Rachel Stead, Daisy Haywood and Lewis Jerrom
  • Chapter 7: Promoting student engagement with mandatory course requirements Lisa Blazhevski, Orlando Caetano Nicola Dallimore
  • Chapter 8: Exploring teaching excellence in vocational training and acting: what role does it play in enabling student success? Sam Digney and Ryan Anstey
  • Chapter 9: Exploring how staff and students perceive captured content as a measure of teaching excellence Lauren Regan, Iman Ezidy and Faiz Addad
  • Chapter 10: Improving the satisfaction of Chinese-educated students at a UK university Tom Bond and Kristy Yeung
  • Chapter 11: International student collaborations to achieve teaching excellence in higher education Alireza Behnejad and Ramsha Saleem
  • Chapter 12: Student-teacher partnership: a symbiotic co-creation of learning in Surrey International Institute (SII-DUFE) Jashim Khan, Tang Yuqing, Zhang, Yuheng, Yuan Yue
  • Chapter 13: Creating excellent partnerships: reflections from authors working in partnership All Partner Authors, Laura Barnett, Kieran Balloo, and Marion Heron
  • Chapter 14: Conclusion: Exploring pedagogic health of the university linked to teaching excellence using student-staff partnerships Ian Kinchin.