Rich Pickings

Creative Professional Development Activities for University Lecturers
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-38994-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 65, 80 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

Reihe: Bold Visions in Educational Research

Rich Pickings: Creative Professional Development Activities for University Teachers offers both inspiration and practical advice for academics who want to develop their teaching in ways that go beyond the merely technical, and for the academic developers who support them. Advocating active engagement with literary and nonliterary texts as one way of prompting deep thinking about teaching practice and teacher identities, Daphne Loads shows how to read poems, stories, academic papers and policy documents in ways that stay with the physicality of words: how they sound, how they look on the page or the screen, how they feel in the mouth. She invites readers to bring into play associations, allusions, memories and insights, to examine their own ways of meaning making and to ask what all of this means for their development as teachers. Bringing together scholarship and experiential activities, the author challenges both academics and academic developers to reject narrowly instrumental approaches to professional development; bring teachers and teaching into view, in contrast with misguided interpretations of student-centredness that tend to erase them from the picture; claim back literary writings as a source of wisdom and insight; trust readers’ responses; and reintroduce beauty and joy into university teaching that has come to be perceived as bleak and unfulfilling.

This book does not attempt to construct a single, coherent argument but rather to indicate a range of good things to choose from. Readers are encouraged to explore the overlaps and the gaps.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loads, Daphne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung, lebenslanges Lernen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

J. L. Williams

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Poetry and Policy

Policy to Poetry

When Poetry’s the Policy

3 A Stupid Way to Eat a Peach

4 Close Reading

5 Slow Reading

6 What’s the Use of Literature?

7 What Do Academic Developers Do?

8 You Gotta Have Soul

9 Taming the Wild Profusion of Existing Things

10 “Ankle-Deep in Aviation Fuel” or “More than Violets Knee-Deep”?

11 How to Make a Dadaist Poem: Method of Tristan Tzara

12 Etymologies

13 Moon

14 artefact

15 The Possibilities of Human Misunderstanding

16 Random

17 Cut-up and Collage

18 Kintsugi

19 Trouble

20 Aleatory Poetry

21 Play at Work: On Arts-Enriched Reflection

22 Threshold Concepts and the Student-as-Vampire

Amy Burge

23 Revisiting Deep and Surface Reading

24 The Power of Anecdotes

25 A Symposium and a Song

26 Envoi

Über Autor(innen)

Daphne Loads, EdD, SFHE, is an academic developer in the Institute for Academic Development at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She writes on academic identities and arts-enriched academic development.