- Journal of Pedagogic Development
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- Instructions to authors
- Volume 8 Issue 3 November 2018
- Volume 8 Issue 2 July 2018
- Volume 8, Issue 1 March 2018
- Volume 7, Issue 3 November 2017
- Volume 7, Issue 2 July 2017
- Volume 7, Issue 1 March 2017
- Volume 6, Issue 3 November 2016
- Volume 6, Issue 2 July 2016
- Volume 5 Issue 3 November 2015
- Volume 5 Issue 2 July 2015
- Volume 5 Issue 1 March 2015
- Volume 4 Issue 3
- Volume 4 Issue 2 July 2014
- Volume 4 Issue 1 March 2014
- Volume 3 Issue 3 November 2013
- Volume 3 Issue 2 July 2013
- Volume 3 Issue 1 March 2013
- Volume 2 Issue 3 November 2012
- Volume 2 Issue 2 July 2012
- Volume 2 Issue 1 March 2012
- Volume 1 Issue 2 November 2011
- Volume 1 Issue 1 July 2011
- Instructions to authors
- Volume 8 Issue 3 November 2018
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- The Idea of a Teacher: Paradigms of Change
- Zen and the Art of Classroom Identity Formation
- Book review: The Librarians’ Book on Teaching through Games and Play
- Moving from Learning Developers to Learning Development Practitioners
- Book review: The Mini Book of Teaching Tips for Librarians, 2nd Edition
- Academics’ International Teaching Journeys: Personal Narratives of Transition in Higher Education
- The Impact of Employability on Technology Acceptance in Students: Findings from Coventry University London
- Book review: Academics’ International Teaching Journeys: Personal Narratives of Transition in Higher Education
- Holistic Midwifery Education for Holistic Midwives: Reflecting on Personal Educational Philosophy and Pedagogy
- ‘In the Real World….’ Listening to ‘Practitioner Lecturer’ Perspectives of the Relevance in the Business School Curriculum
- “We don’t need to write to learn computer sciences”: Writing Instruction and the Question of First year, Later or Not at all
- Puppets and Pedagogy in Foreign Language Education: The Use of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to Model Hispanic Puppet Theatre as an Integrated Learning Platform
- Volume 8 Issue 2 July 2018
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- Book Reviews
- Why Do People Become Academics?
- Teaching Online (Book excerpt from a work in progress)
- Does a ‘Flipped Classroom’ Approach Add Learning Value?
- Lecture Capture: Reflections on Pedagogy vs. Perception
- Peer Review Activity and a Search Engine based Corpus System
- A Truly ‘Transformative’ MBA: Executive Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Developing Live Projects as Part of an Assessment Regime Within a Dispersed Campus Model
- The Nurse Associate Trainee Deserves a HOTSHOT Education: A Reflective Signature Pedagogical Approach
- Lessons etc
- Article 2
- Contents
- Volume 8, Issue 1 March 2018
- Volume 7, Issue 3 November 2017
- Volume 7, Issue 2 July 2017
- Volume 7, Issue 1 March 2017
- Volume 6, Issue 3 November 2016
- Volume 6, Issue 2 July 2016
- Volume 5 Issue 3 November 2015
- Volume 5 Issue 2 July 2015
- Volume 5 Issue 1 March 2015
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- A Dictionary of Research Concepts and Issues
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- The Architecture of Productive Learning Networks
- Teaching Programming with Computational and Informational Thinking
- Writing in Social Spaces: A social processes approach to academic writing
- ‘So, you want us to do the marking?!’ – peer review and feedback to promote assessment as learning
- Telling timber tales in Higher Education: A reflection on my journey with digital storytelling
- The learning approaches of A Level History and Geography students analysed: a Report from a Sixth Form College
- I am not a superhero but I do have secret weapons! Using technology in Higher Education teaching to redress the power balance
- Open Futures: An enquiry and skills based educational programme developed for primary education and its use in tertiary education
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Jean Baudrillard
- Lo‐tech Tools as Episteme: Rethinking Student Engagement in the Writing Process and Beyond1
- Raising Awareness of Diversity and Social (In)justice Issues in Undergraduate Research Writing: Understanding Students and their Lives via Connecting Teaching and Research
- Volume 4 Issue 3
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- Book reviews
- The Imperial University
- Success in Academic Writing
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers Dave Cormier
- Language Centre Online (and beyond)
- No Nonsense Guide to Training in Libraries
- English and Reflective Writing Skills in Medicine
- Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
- Internationalisation and curriculum development: why and how?
- Harkness Learning: Principles of a Radical American Pedagogy
- Growing Environmental Education and Sustainability Within Universities
- Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age (3rd Edition)
- Preventing Too Little Too Late: A Novel Process of Continuous Curriculum Evaluation
- Peer Review of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: International Perspectives
- Helping Students Connect: Architecting Learning Spaces for Experiential and Transactional Reflection
- A methodology for enhancing student writing in the discipline through complementary and collaborative working between central and school based writing development provision
- Volume 4 Issue 2 July 2014
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- A Pedagogic Trinity – Exploring the Art, Craft and Science of Teaching
- In Conversation with… Zoë Readhead, Principal of Summerhill School, Leiston, Suffolk
- Teaching with Infographics: Practicing New Digital Competencies and Visual Literacies
- WAC in FYW: Building Bridges and Teachers as Architects
- A personal journey of discoveries through a DIY open course development for professional development of teachers in Higher Education
- Materialities, Textures and Pedagogies
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers Anton Makarenko
- The Complexities of Teaching 'Inclusion' in Higher Education
- Research Methods in Information (2nd edition)
- Chasing Literacy: Reading and Writing in an Age of Acceleration
- Threshold Concepts: From Personal Practice to Communities of Practice
- Book reviews
- Volume 4 Issue 1 March 2014
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- Peer Tutoring
- Education and Immigration
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Sigmund Freud
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Vivien Hodgson
- Developing Employability for Business
- Assessment for Learning in Higher Education
- International Students Negotiating Higher Education
- A Handbook for Deterring Plagiarism in Higher Education
- University Teaching in Focus: A Learning Centred Approach
- Augmented didactics in Kindergarten12: An Italian Case History
- What constitutes 'peer support' within peer supported development?
- The Good Paper – A Handbook for Writing Papers in Higher Education
- Effective feedback: An indispensable tool for improvement in quality of medical education
- Writing in the Disciplines: Building Supportive Cultures for Student Writing in UK Higher Education
- A consideration of peer support and peer mentoring within the Professional Teaching Scheme (PTS) at the 台湾六合彩开奖记录
- Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Social Technologies: Facebook, E portfolios and Other Social Networking Services
- Developing a Strategy based Instruction Approach to Teaching and Learning Modern Languages to train ab initio Primary PGCE Trainees
- Book Reviews
- The complexities and challenges of introducing electronic Ongoing Achievement Records in the pre registration nursing course using PebblePad and hand held tablets
- Volume 3 Issue 3 November 2013
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- Book reviews
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: R.J. Harris
- Transforming lives and 'the measure of their states'
- An Investigation into Students' Perceptions of Group Assignments
- Peer Support for Technology Enhanced Learning: developing a community of learners
- Developing Digital Literacy in Construction Management Education: A Design Thinking Led Approach
- Self Directed Learning in Osteopathic Education: identifying and enhancing independent student learning
- Challenges of developing pedagogy through diversity and equity within the new Early Years Foundation (EYFS) curriculum
- Classroom Based Action Research: Revisiting the Process as Customizable and Meaningful Professional Development for Educators
- Fly on the Wall: Can students' learning be enhanced by allowing them to witness their own summative assessment and feedback event?
- Information and Communication Technologies as means for self improvement at remote universities: the example of Urgench State University, Uzbekistan
- Volume 3 Issue 2 July 2013
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- PAL at UoB!
- Book reviews
- PAL Experience
- Guest Editorial
- Celebrate Citation: Flipping the Pedagogy of Plagiarism in Qatar
- PAL Leader Training at Bournemouth University: 12 years on and still evolving
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Paul Natorp
- Electracy: The Internet as Fifth Estate
- Facilitators and Barriers to the Development of PASS at the University of Brighton
- Pedagogical Inspiration through Martial Arts Instruction
- In response to ‘Celebrate Citation: Flipping the Pedagogy of Plagiarism in Qatar’
- Stress levels and their risk/protective factors among MSc Public Health students
- Citation Matters: Two Essays on the Student Journey of Citation and How Google Scholar and the Principle of Least Effort Can Affect Academic Writing
- Volume 3 Issue 1 March 2013
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- Book reviews
- Guest Editorial
- A multi dimensional approach to principalship
- Cross cultural collaboration with China
- Teachers and Research: What they value and what they do
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas
- Resilience in Adult Learners: some pedagogical implications
- Volunteer tourism and architecture students: What motivates and can best prepare them?
- Enhancing learner knowledge and the application of that knowledge via computer based assessment
- The Impact of an In service Professional Development Course on Writing Teacher Attitudes and Pedagogy
- Reflecting on Professional Practice: The Importance of Motivating Adolescent Girls in Physical Education
- Teachers' views on the introduction and implementation of literacy tasks in the Year 7 Science scheme of learning
- Reflecting on Professional Practice: The Importance of Motivating Adolescent Girls in Physical Education
- Volume 2 Issue 3 November 2012
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- Editorial
- Book reviews
- Transition Trauma
- Improving Course Related Information of Computing Degree Courses for Enhancing Learner Development
- Different Ways of Knowing
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Paulo Friere
- Ethical Issues in Pedagogical Research
- The Future For Primary Physical Education
- A Year on the Frontline Despatches from New FE Teachers
- Nurturing the independent thinking practitioner: using threshold concepts to transform undergraduate learning
- Volume 2 Issue 2 July 2012
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- Book Review
- Editorial The First Year
- HE in FE past, present and future
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Michael Wesch
- Crossing the boundaries of film and architectural pedagogy
- The CLE Writing Retreat 2012: 'Lifting the Mask of the Imposter'
- Simulation in Clinical Education: A Reflective and Critical Account
- Guest Editorial A Harmonics of Teaching and Learning: An Editorial in Three Voices
- VLE segregation or integration? How should distance learning and taught modes be treated?
- Reflecting on the Transition from Practice to Education The Journey to Becoming an Effective Teacher in Higher Education
- Volume 2 Issue 1 March 2012
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- Editorial
- Book Reviews
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Jaques Lacan
- Evaluation of a Global MBA programme
- Peer Assisted Learning: Project Update
- Student engagement and the role of feedback in learning
- Will health students engage with a health information blog
- Learning and Teaching in Business Through Rich and Varied Information Sources
- Thriving as an International Student: Personal responses and the trajectories they create
- Embedding a curriculum based information literacy programme at the 台湾六合彩开奖记录
- Learning Beyond Compliance: A comparative analysis of two cohorts undertaking a first year social work module
- Volume 1 Issue 2 November 2011
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- Editorial
- Book reviews
- Moving Online
- The Gift of Dyslexia
- Open Educational Resources: Shared Solutions for Higher Education
- Information literacy and Web 2.0: developing a modern media curriculum using social bookmarking and social networking tools
- Reading Students' Expectations: a talking point
- Standing Up For Teaching: The 'Crime' of Striving for Excellence
- Can 'Quality Marking' be used to provide effective feedback within Higher Education?
- Scenario Based Evaluation of an Ethical Framework for the Use of Digital Media in Learning and Teaching
- Volume 1 Issue 1 July 2011
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- Editorial
- Book reviews
- I get by with a little help from my friends Peer Assisted Learning
- Research project: Effective academic posters and poster exhibitions
- Brands and movie making: Using storyboards to develop spatial design students' understanding of narrative
- Learning to chat: Developing a pedagogical framework for facilitating online synchronous tutorial discussion
- The role of perception in divergent approaches to teaching and learning through the transition from foundation to bachelor degree: a preliminary exploration
The Imperial University
By Piya Chatterjee & Sunaina Maira (Eds.)
University of Minnesota Press (2014)
Review by Ian McDonald
At the start of this review it is important to note that this is not an academic book in the true sense of the term, but rather a somewhat incoherent collection of ramblings from militant 'scholar-activists' (as they like to style themselves). Less charitable readers may wish to describe them as professional middle-class intellectual agitators.
The term 'scholar-activist' is an interesting one, and one which rather smacks of self-indulgence and selfishness on the part of the authors. This term, as well as the book's opening, does lead me to reflect on the fact that perhaps the authors should be diverting the majority of their time into learning and teaching and research instead of effectively acting as full-time agitators and part-time academics. I wonder what their students would make of their, apparent, priorities. I fully support academics being involved in political activities - I am a trade union representative myself - but such activities must surely be carried out in addition to someone's paid work, whereas some of those writing in his book appear to think they are paid to protest. Demonstrations and sit-ins may appear 'sexy', but they often turn violent with innocent people getting caught up in the middle. This certainly appeared to be the case with the demonstrations at the University of Birmingham earlier in the year.
'The Imperial University' seeks to examine and ruthlessly critique the concept of the 'Imperial University', which the editors argue is the correct description for the US academy as US higher education is used to defend and further America's neo-liberal and militaristic policies. The seventeen contributors examine various aspects relating to the concept of 'The Imperial University' in fourteen chapters on issues ranging from 'Militarizing Education' to 'Decolonizing Chicano Studies', and from 'Faculty Governance' to 'Black Feminist Pedagogy'.
The volume seeks to demonstrate how the authors believe scholarly dissent has been repressed in America, a phenomenon which they argue increased markedly after the atrocities of 9/11 and has led to an increase in criticism of academics who are perceived to be 'anti-America'. They cite examples such as moves by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) and other neoconservative groups who have called for a greater attention on, and scrutiny of, academics who challenge the concept of America's dominance in the world. Any attempt to curtail academic freedom, whether actual or merely conceived, must be taken seriously and I fully understand that American academics are extra-sensitive to this due to the way in which their predecessors were treated under McCarthyism. However, I feel at times the writers are themselves guilty of intolerance to those who share differing views to their own, for example, in the introduction both 'Neo-Nazis' and 'anti-abortion activists' are dismissed in the same sentence, clearly emphasising this intolerance and a failure to accept that anti-abortion activists often have genuine and heartfelt beliefs for taking the position they do. To dismiss the two groups in the same sentence shows a shocking degree of ignorance.
Through all the angry rhetoric and poorly reasoned arguments, there are some issues of genuine concern which manage to shine through. Chapter two shows a worrying link between the US military and higher education, where there is relentless targeting of ethnic minority students as potential military and secret service recruits. On the face of it the increased diversification of these services is laudable, but the chapter's author (Roberto Gonzalez) argues well that this can go too far and become coercive. He argues that society could be better served if such aggressive recruitment tactics were used by peaceful professions, such as education and medicine, whilst Victor Bascara's chapter entitled 'New Empire, Same Old University?' gives an interesting and well written account of the linkages and diversities in the histories of three overseas universities all founded in countries which were, at the time of the foundation of the universities, in America's 'possession.'
Whilst many of the issues examined in this publication are distinctly American, there are some which will resonate with British readers. Laura Pulido, in a chapter on 'Faculty Governance at the University of Southern California', discusses academic rankings, changing tenure standards and writes, in tones which will be familiar to all involved in the Research Excellence Framework (REF2014), of '鈥lder faculty who would not, by the new standards, be considered academically competitive.' The increasingly target driven culture in higher education is an issue which is felt by academics on both sides of the Atlantic.
Whilst this publication is certainly thought-provoking, it is not one which I will be rushing to read again. Some interesting and helpful arguments are advanced, but to find them a reader will have to search through a large amount of overly aggressive and, at times rather nasty, ranting.address
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