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Values in higher education teaching / Tony Harland and Neil Pickering.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011Description: x, 127 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415589215
  • 9780415589215
  • 0415589223
  • 9780415589222
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.014 22
LOC classification:
  • LB1738 .H27 2011
Contents:
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'.
Summary: '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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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 378.014 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A473502B
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 378.014 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A502488B

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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