Towards Teaching in Public Reshaping the Modern University [Hardcover]

Towards Teaching in Public: Reshaping the Modern University explores how the contested relationships between policy, curriculum and pedagogy are reshaping the modern university and examines the impact of conceptualisations of teaching in public on this debate in this age of academic capitalism.?It traces the emergence of strategies for open access, with particular reference to the contribution of technology and e-learning, to the emergence of teaching in public as a critique of current educational policy.?The contributors combine policy analysis with a consideration of pedagogical issues and an exploration of the student experience.

This collection draws together chapters by experienced scholars and practitioners within the field of teaching and learning in higher education.

Mike Neary is Professor and Dean of Teaching and Learning at Lincoln University, UK, where he is Director of the Centre for Educational Research and Development. He is the Founding Director of the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research, a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at Warwick and Oxford Brookes Universities, and is a National Teaching Fellow.
Les Bell is Emeritus Professor of Educational Management at the School of Education, University of Leicester, UK, and Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Lincoln, UK. Before his retirement in July 2006, he was a member of the Centre for Educational Leadership and Management and Director of the Doctorate in Education programme at the University of Leicester, UK.

Notes on Contributors \ Foreword Mary Stuart \ Acknowledgements\ Part I: Education as a Public Good (Editor: Les Bell) \ 1. Teaching in Public: Reshaping the University Mike Neary and Aileen Morris \ 2. Teaching in Public: Revolution as Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Higher Education Angela Thody \ 3. Teaching in Public: Participation and Access in Twentieth-Century Higher Education Les Bell \ Part II: The Student/lÃñ