Whisperings from the Corridors [recurso electrónico] Stories of Teachers in Higher Education

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. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Whisperings from the Corridors....Pages 1-6 Looking Forward, Looking Back... Recounts, Recollections and Flights from the Field by Teacher Educators....Pages 7-24 The Importance of Supervision in Higher Education....Pages 25-34 Portraits of Pedagogical Thinking....Pages 35-51 “The Assessment is the Learning”....Pages 53-63 An Emerging Pedagogy....Pages 65-79 Who Cares? Tensions and Confl icts from the Field of Teacher Education....Pages 81-97