Pursuing Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: Towards an Inclusive Perspective

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Margaret Wood (York St John University, UK) Feng Su (Liverpool Hope University, UK)

Pursuing Teaching Excellence in Higher Education

Towards an Inclusive Perspective

Margaret Wood (York St John University, UK), Feng Su (Liverpool Hope University, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
20 April 2023

Colleges of higher education

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.

By: Margaret Wood (York St John University UK), Feng Su (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350216693
ISBN 10: 1350216690
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 20 April 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Preface 1. Discourses of Teaching Excellence in Higher Education 2. Institutions’ Perspectives on Teaching Excellence 3. Academics’ Perspectives on Teaching Excellence 4. Students’ Perspectives on Teaching Excellence 5. Employers’ Perspectives on Teaching Excellence 6. Parents’ Perspectives on Teaching Excellence 7. Towards an Inclusive Perspective on Teaching Excellence Coda: Teaching Excellence in Challenging Times References Index

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

Reviews for Pursuing Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: Towards an Inclusive Perspective

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 *