Crossing Borders in University Learning and Teaching

Uncovering aspects of university culture which are often hidden or misunderstood, this book brings together international perspectives, showing the matches and mismatches between experience and expectation, as both staff and student face new academic cultures.

Autorentext

Jane Spiro is Professor in Education and TESOL at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Inhalt

1. Crossing study borders: from discomfort to noticing. 2. Being a student: who am I as a learner?. 3. Being a higher education teacher: who am I as an educator?. 4. Ways of learning: how do I learn?. 5. Ways of knowing: what does it mean to know something?. 6. Learning events: what happens in learning/teaching events?. 7. Learning spaces: how do I experience campus and virtual spaces. 8. Kinds of assessment: what do learning and assessment activities mean?. 9. Kinds of feedback: what does feedback mean?. 10. Crossing study cultures: from noticing to learning maps.