Description

Book Title:

Analysing Teaching-Learning Interactions in Higher Education by Paul Ashwin

Summary:

Whilst current research into teaching and learning offers many insights into the experiences of academics and students in higher education, it has two significant shortcomings. It does not highlight the dynamic ways in which students and academics impact on each other in teaching-learning interactions, or the ways in which these interactions are shaped by wider social processes.

This book offers critical insight into existing perspectives on researching teaching and learning in higher education and argues that alternative perspectives are required in order to account for structure and agency in teaching-learning interactions in higher education. In considering four alternative perspectives, it examines the ways in which teaching-learning interactions are shaped by teaching-learning environments, student and academic identities, disciplinary knowledge practices and institutional cultures. It concludes by examining the conceptual and methodological implications of these analyses of teaching-learning interactions and provides the reader with an invaluable guide to alternative ways of conceptualising and researching teaching and learning in higher education.

'This excellent book makes a major contribution to the study of teaching and learning in Higher Education through its perceptive analysis of theoretical frameworks and their implications. Ranging across studies of perception, identity, activity systems, field and pedagogic device, Paul Ashwin offers both an accessible review and a wealth of ideas for the future development of understanding.'

Professor Andrew Pollard, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

'Ashwin's analysis of teaching-learning interactions is insightful and will be useful to any college teacher who reads it. He writes well so that the book is both thoughtful and readable.'

Professor Bill McKeachie, University of Michigan, USA

Publisher

Continuum