Whisperings from the corridors : : stories of teachers in higher education / / edited by Susanne Garvis and Rachael Dwyer.

• Superior document: Other Books
• TeilnehmendeR: Garvis, Susanne.; Dwyer, Rachael.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed. 2012.
• Language: English
• Series: Other Books
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (101 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book is intended to illuminate the experiences of teachers working in higher education, the tensions they face in working in an increasingly complex professional landscape. Higher teaching loads, increased expectations of research output, and changing social and economic structures that shape the way students view their tertiary education have a profound affect on university teachers’ work. The pages of this volume are filled with the stories of teachers in universities that allow the reader to look deeply into the complexities of their work. We and the other authors do not pretend that the stories told here are representative of all university teachers, that they are in any way generalisable, but that others may learn from the knowledge that is shared.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Susanne Garvis and Rachael Dwyer -- Whisperings from the Corridors / Rachael Dwyer and Susanne Garvis -- Looking Forward, Looking Back… Recounts, Recollections and Flights from the Field by Teacher Educators / Susanne Garvis , Donna Pendergast and Jayne Keogh -- The Importance of Supervision in Higher Education / Susanne Garvis and Donna Pendergast -- Portraits of Pedagogical Thinking / Mia O’Brien -- “The Assessment is the Learning” / Susanne Garvis and Rachael Dwyer -- An Emerging Pedagogy / Sarah Davey Chesters -- Who Cares? Tensions and Conflicts from the Field of Teacher Education / Susanne Garvis , Sarah Davey Chesters , Rachael Dwyer , Jayne Keogh and Donna Pendergast.