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Exploring Learning & Teaching in Higher Education

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  • Provides a practical guide for teachers and researchers in higher education
  • Based on long-time teaching and researching experience
  • Represents the latest work and innovative concepts
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: New Frontiers of Educational Research (NFER)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Subjectivity Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Refreshing Lecturing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
  4. Learning Through Transaction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
    2. Peer Mentoring and Tutoring in Higher Education

      • Janet W. Colvin
      Pages 207-229
  5. Transformative Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
    2. Learning and Transformation

      • Sabra E. Brock
      Pages 233-250
  6. Using Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 287-287

About this book

The focus of this book is on exploring effective strategies in higher education that promote meaningful learning and go beyond discipline boundaries, with a special emphasis on Subjectivity Learning, Refreshing Lecturing, Learning through Construction, Learning through Transaction, Transformative Learning, Using Technology, and Assessment for Learning and Teaching in particular. The research collected in this book is all based on empirical studies and includes research methods and findings that will be of great interest to teachers and researchers in the area of higher education. The main benefit readers will derive from this book is a meaningful insight into what other teachers around the world are doing in higher education and what lessons they have learned, which will support them in their own teaching.    

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, Institute of Educational Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Mang Li

  • Educational Methodology, Policy & Leadership, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

    Yong Zhao

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exploring Learning & Teaching in Higher Education

  • Editors: Mang Li, Yong Zhao

  • Series Title: New Frontiers of Educational Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55352-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-55351-6Published: 08 October 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51486-3Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-55352-3Published: 24 September 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2195-3473

  • Series E-ISSN: 2195-349X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 410

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Higher Education

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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