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Exploring University Teaching and Learning

Experience and Context

  • Exploring University Teaching and Learning has a focus on teaching which complements and extends the focus on learning in the highly cited, classic text, Understanding Learning and Teaching first published in 1999

  • In describing a 30-year project, the book provides teachers with a research-informed understanding of university teaching and learning and support for engagement in scholarly teaching

  • In the concluding chapter, a series of principles of practice for teaching and learning is summarised in the form of nine implications for good classroom university teaching and learning

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Exploring Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

    • Keith Trigwell, Michael Prosser
    Pages 1-13
  3. Students’ Experiences of Learning

    • Keith Trigwell, Michael Prosser
    Pages 15-36
  4. Teachers’ Experiences of Teaching

    • Keith Trigwell, Michael Prosser
    Pages 37-61
  5. Teachers’ Experiences of their Subject Matter and of Research

    • Keith Trigwell, Michael Prosser
    Pages 63-83
  6. Leadership of Teaching and Learning

    • Keith Trigwell, Michael Prosser
    Pages 85-98
  7. Changing and Developing Teachers’ Approaches to Teaching

    • Keith Trigwell, Michael Prosser
    Pages 99-110
  8. Summary and Conclusions

    • Keith Trigwell, Michael Prosser
    Pages 111-118
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 119-128

About this book

This book focuses on university teachers’ experience of teaching and learning. Following on from the 1999 volume Understanding Learning and Teaching, which focused on student experiences of teaching and learning, this book provides guidance on how teachers’ experiences can be understood in ways which can support the continued enhancement of student learning experiences and learning outcomes. Drawing on the outcomes of a 30-year research project, this comprehensive volume discusses the qualitative variation in approaches to university teaching, the factors associated with that variation, and how different ways of teaching are related to differences in student experiences of teaching and learning. The authors extend the discussions of teaching into new areas, including emotions in teaching, leadership of teaching, growth as a university teacher and the contentious field of relations between teaching and research.

“This important book offers an accessible, research-informed guide to understanding student learning and university teaching. Written by two world-leading experts in the field, it provides rich insights and practical responses to the challenges faced by those who care deeply about teaching and learning in higher education.”

Professor Paul Ashwin, Lancaster University, UK 

"Enhancing discipline-specific evidence-based development of the quality of teaching and learning in higher education has been my strategy during my whole career. Therefore and with great pleasure I read the book by Trigwell and Prosser which distills their teaching and learning research into a guide for those seeking to better understand their teaching environment. Building on their discovery of relations between the ways of teaching and the ways of learning, they expand on what is known about variation in teaching and how it links to course design, to research and to academic development. This book will be a valuable resource for many academics."​

Professor​ Sari Lindblom, University of Helsinki, Finland

“In an international higher education context going through much change and uncertainty, Trigwell and Prosser have produced a scholarly, timely, evidence-based, view of teaching and learning suitable for universities world-wide. The experience, quality and satisfaction of university leaders, researchers, teachers and students will benefit enormously from the ideas in this addition to their first book.”

Professor Robert A. Ellis, Griffith University, Australia



Reviews

“This important book offers an accessible, research-informed guide to understanding student learning and university teaching. Written by two world-leading experts in the field, it provides rich insights and practical responses to the challenges faced by those who care deeply about teaching and learning in higher education.”

Professor Paul Ashwin, Lancaster University, UK 

"Enhancing discipline-specific evidence-based development of the quality of teaching and learning in higher education has been my strategy during my whole career. Therefore and with great pleasure I read the book by Trigwell and Prosser which distills their teaching and learning research into a guide for those seeking to better understand their teaching environment. Building on their discovery of relations between the ways of teaching and the ways of learning, they expand on what is known about variation in teaching and how it links to course design, to research and to academic development. This book will be a valuable resource for many academics."​

Professor​ Sari Lindblom, University of Helsinki, Finland

“In an international higher education context going through much change and uncertainty, Trigwell and Prosser have produced a scholarly, timely, evidence-based, view of teaching and learning suitable for universities world-wide. The experience, quality and satisfaction of university leaders, researchers, teachers and students will benefit enormously from the ideas in this addition to their first book.”

Professor Robert A. Ellis, Griffith University, Australia

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Keith Trigwell

  • Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Michael Prosser

About the authors

Keith Trigwell is an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests include investigating qualitative differences in university teaching and students learning and the scholarship of teaching, including co-development of the Approaches to Teaching Inventory. He has been awarded life-time achievement awards by national and international organisations. 

Michael Prosser is a professorial member of the University of Melbourne and the University of Tasmania, Australia, and recipient of life-time achievement awards from national and international organisations. He has a career in supporting and researching teaching and learning in higher education, including co-development of the Approaches to Teaching Inventory.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exploring University Teaching and Learning

  • Book Subtitle: Experience and Context

  • Authors: Keith Trigwell, Michael Prosser

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50830-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50829-6Published: 01 October 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50832-6Published: 02 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50830-2Published: 30 September 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 128

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Learning & Instruction

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eBook USD 54.99
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Softcover Book USD 69.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 69.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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