Values in higher education teaching /

Harland, Tony, 1955-

Values in higher education teaching / Tony Harland and Neil Pickering. - x, 127 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123) and index.

1. Values : What are values? ; Values in teaching ; Values in higher education ; Conclusion ; Values narrative: 'Eddie' -- 2. Understanding values in practice : What's worth knowing? ; What's worth learning? ; Valuing academic practice ; Values narrative: 'East of Kinshasa' -- 3. Teaching values : What's worth teaching? ; Six challenges for the values teacher ; Values narrative: 'An old teacher, an old friend' -- 4. Valuing higher education : New values for old ; A variety of purposes ; Shifting (or shifty?) values ; Values narrative: 'No more than an image' -- 5. Foundational values : The public academic ; Capitulation and resistance ; Values narrative: 'The goodbye letters' -- Conclusion: Values narrative: 'The goodbye letters'.

'Values in Higher Education Teaching' explores the way in which teaching, research, learning and higher education are a values enterprise and that an exploration of values is necessary to work out the full purposes of a higher education to guide practices and help academics understand academic work.

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College teachers--Training of--Case studies
Universities and colleges--Faculty--Case studies
Education, Higher--Case studies
Curriculum enrichment--Case studies

LB1738 / .H27 2011

378.014

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