Pursuing Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: Towards an Inclusive Perspecti

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Teaching excellence is a topic of international significance, having importance for higher education worldwide, yet is generally considered to be poorly defined and understood. The current discourse of teaching excellence is narrowly framed, instrumental and performative, with an onus on measurement and quantification. Wood and Su investigate and rethink excellence in higher education, connecting this to the understanding of the role and purpose of higher education. Stakeholder perspectives on teaching excellence are explored, and the authors argue that it is through engaging with higher education constituencies, to examine teaching excellence from different angles and stances, that more inclusive understandings may be built. These stakeholder perspectives, which form the central chapters of the book, include higher education institutions, academics, students, employers and parents. The importance of a commitment to engaging with understandings situated in the diverse experiences and contexts of stakeholders for an 'inclusive perspective' on teaching excellence is affirmed. At the close of the book, the Coda examines some of the implications of the responses to the COVID-19 global pandemic for inclusive perspectives on teaching excellence in higher education.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Author Biography

Margaret Wood is Senior Lecturer at York St John University, UK.Feng Su is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsList of AcronymsPreface1. Discourses of Teaching Excellence in Higher Education2. Institutions' Perspectives on Teaching Excellence3. Academics' Perspectives on Teaching Excellence4. Students' Perspectives on Teaching Excellence5. Employers' Perspectives on Teaching Excellence6. Parents' Perspectives on Teaching Excellence7. Towards an Inclusive Perspective on Teaching ExcellenceCoda: Teaching Excellence in Challenging TimesReferencesIndex

Review

In this thought provoking, contemporary and persuasive book, Margaret Wood and Feng Su call for a renewal of the promise of higher education as a public good and open up debates on the importance of more inclusive and pedagogically informed discourses and practices of teaching excellence. * Tanya Fitzgerald, Professor of Higher Education, The University of Western Australia, Australia *This book advances a convincing argument for an inclusive notion of excellence that recognizes the diversity of stakeholder perspectives and rejects the imposition of a single bureaucratically defined framework of outcome measures. * Jon Nixon, Visiting Professor, Middlesex University, UK *Through gathering perspectives on excellence from members of several stakeholder groups — higher education institutions, academics, students, employers and parents — Margaret Wood and Feng Su encourage us to wrestle with what excellence means not only according to members of these groups but also, importantly, at the intersections of their multiple perspectives. * Alison Cook-Sather, Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor of Education, Bryn Mawr College, USA *

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Provides an international perspective on teaching excellence drawing together different stakeholders' perspectives and offering suggestions for nurturing and developing a more inclusive notion of teaching excellence.

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"In this thought provoking, contemporary and persuasive book, Margaret Wood and Feng Su call for a renewal of the promise of higher education as a public good and open up debates on the importance of more inclusive and pedagogically informed discourses and practices of teaching excellence." -- Tanya Fitzgerald, Professor of Higher Education, The University of Western Australia, Australia "This book advances a convincing argument for an inclusive notion of excellence that recognizes the diversity of stakeholder perspectives and rejects the imposition of a single bureaucratically defined framework of outcome measures." -- Jon Nixon, Visiting Professor, Middlesex University, UK "Through gathering perspectives on excellence from members of several stakeholder groups - higher education institutions, academics, students, employers and parents - Margaret Wood and Feng Su encourage us to wrestle with what excellence means not only according to members of these groups but also, importantly, at the intersections of their multiple perspectives." -- Alison Cook-Sather, Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor of Education, Bryn Mawr College, USA

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Provides an international perspective on teaching excellence drawing together different stakeholders' perspectives and offering suggestions for nurturing and developing a more inclusive notion of teaching excellence.

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Provides an international perspective on teaching excellence with a specific focus on the UK higher education context

Details ISBN1350216690 Author Feng Su Short Title Pursuing Teaching Excellence in Higher Education Pages 192 Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1350216690 ISBN-13 9781350216693 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-04-20 Subtitle Towards an Inclusive Perspective DEWEY 378.125 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2023-04-20 UK Release Date 2023-04-20 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2023-04-19 We've got this

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