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Critical Practice in Higher Education

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This impactful series provides academics with a scholarly gateway into essential aspects of higher education practice. Perfect for those engaged in HE study, educational leadership roles, academic staff or anyone seeking to explore particular topics of interest. Delve into each text as it explores individual topics in depth connecting research, teaching, community engagement and leadership while developing confidence and authority.

10 Series Titles


Indicators of Teaching Excellence in Higher Education A Critical Approach

Indicators of Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: A Critical Approach

1st Edition

By Aneta Hayes, Nicholas Garnett
April 02, 2025

An innovative take on the controversial question of teaching excellence in Higher Education (HE). After critiquing the very idea of 'measuring' teaching excellence, Hayes and Garnett offer a critical approach to re-conceptualising and measuring teaching excellence and the controversies surrounding ...

Universal Design for Learning A Critical Approach

Universal Design for Learning: A Critical Approach

1st Edition

Edited By Nicola Martin, Mike Wray, Joanna Krupa
March 24, 2025

Critical Practice in Higher Education provides a scholarly and practical entry point for academics into key areas of higher education practice. Each book in the series explores an individual topic in depth, providing an overview in relation to current thinking and practice, informed by recent ...

Evidencing Teaching Achievements in Higher Education

Evidencing Teaching Achievements in Higher Education

1st Edition

By Marita Grimwood, Steve McHanwell
September 16, 2024

This book demonstrates how university lecturers can document their impactful teaching and evidence their teaching achievements in the contemporary HE landscape. It is an essential read for all lecturers who might need to evidence their achievements for academic development including job promotions ...

Transition into Higher Education

Transition into Higher Education

1st Edition

By Harriet Jones, Hilary Orpin, Gemma Mansi, Catherine Molesworth, Heather Monsey
January 16, 2023

This book will help all academic staff in higher education (HE) develop more informed teaching and better support students as they transition to university. It explores the organisations who advise students pre-university and uncovers the myths and misconceptions held by HE stakeholders. Induction ...

Bias-aware Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Bias-aware Teaching, Learning and Assessment

1st Edition

By Donna Hurford, Andrew Read
May 16, 2022

This book offers university teachers informed and practical strategies for raising awareness of bias in teaching, learning and assessment practices.  Conscious and unconscious biases influence judgements, perceptions, decision making and actions, and societal awareness has now turned the spotlight ...

Critical Approaches to Online Learning

Critical Approaches to Online Learning

1st Edition

By Julian McDougall
September 03, 2021

Online learning has become an increasing presence in higher education course design, with most courses combining physical real time engagement with asynchronous learning activity. Now, however, there is a greater need for this one-stop guide to critical practice in this area, as we rethink the role...

Enabling Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education

Enabling Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education

1st Edition

By Mike Seal, Alan Smith
September 03, 2021

An introduction to critical pedagogy for all those working within higher education. Critical Pedagogy is an approach that is fundamentally democratic, informal, non-hierarchical, determined by participants, privileges the oppressed and their perspectives and is committed to action. Higher education...

Conversations to Change Teaching

Conversations to Change Teaching

1st Edition

By Joy Jarvis, Karen Clark
May 01, 2020

This book highlights the importance of academic staff having focused conversations about teaching.  The emphasis is on using this approach to build individual and team capacity and to bring about institutional change. It emphasises the distributed nature of expertise in teaching which exists at all...

Co-creating Learning and Teaching Towards relational pedagogy in higher education

Co-creating Learning and Teaching: Towards relational pedagogy in higher education

1st Edition

By Catherine Bovill
April 20, 2020

Co-creation of learning and teaching, where students and staff collaborate to design curricula or elements of curricula, is an important pedagogical idea within higher education, key to meaningful learner engagement and building positive student-staff relationships. Drawing on literature from ...

Engaging in Transnational Education

Engaging in Transnational Education

1st Edition

By Karen Mpamhanga
April 20, 2020

This book offers a clear and concise introduction to transnational higher education. Drawing on research, current sector guidance and policy, it asks critical questions about the role and nature of transnational education, motivations for engaging in transnational education, how transnational ...

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