Understanding Teaching Excellence in Higher Education Towards a Critical Approach

Part 1: Beginnings  1. Introduction  2. A Critical Framework  Part 2: Familiar Faces  3. Awards for Teachers  4. Institutions and Teaching Excellence  5. The Contribution of Subject Disciplines  Part 3: Alternative Explorations  6. Local Knowledge: 'Ordinary' Teacher and Student Perceptions  7. Internationalisation and Inter-Cultural Learning  8. Seduced by Glitz and Glamour: Press Reporting of Teaching  9. Excellence  10. Professional Development and Teaching Excellence  Part 4: Future Horizons  11. Lost in the Translation?  12. Research into Teaching Excellence in Higher Education

Biography

Alan Skelton

'Skelton writes with an engaging critical zeal, and his book will certainly help many talented, competent, and hardworking teachers in higher education in UK to understand why, and how, a few members of their profession become mysteriously singled out for recognition and reward as “excellent”, whilst they themselves do not.'

'Here we have a bold and original book that cruelly exposes some of the myth-making mechanisms that politicians and their handservants have clumsily sought to impose upon contemporary HE. Extremely well written and a model of clear organisation.'

- British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 38 No 1 2007