Theorising Learning to Teach in Higher Education provides both lecturers embarking on a career in higher education and established members of staff with the capacity to improve their teaching‎.‎ The process of learning to teach‎,‎ and the associated field of professional academic development for teaching‎,‎ is absolutely central to higher education‎.‎ Offering innovative alternatives to some of the dominant work on teaching theory‎,‎ this volume explores three significant approaches in detail‎:‎ critical and social realist‎,‎ social practice and sociomaterial approaches‎,‎ which are divided into four sections‎:‎ * Sociomaterialism * Practice theories * Critical and social realism * Crossover perspectives‎.‎ Readers will benefit from discussions on the role and place of theory in the process of learning to teach‎,‎ whilst international case studies demonstrate the kinds of insights and recommendations that could emanate from the three approaches examined‎,‎ drawing together contributions from Europe‎,‎ Africa and Australasia‎.‎Both challenging and enlightening‎,‎ this book argues the need for theory in order to advance scholarship in the field and achieve goals related to social justice in higher education systems across the world‎.‎ It draws attention to newly emerging theoretical perspectives and relatively underused perspectives to demonstrate the need for theory in relation to learning to teach‎.‎ This book will appeal to academics interested in how they come to learn to teach‎,‎ to administrators and academic developers responsible for professional development strategies at universities and masters and PhD level students researching professional development in higher education‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Brenda Leibowitz‎,‎ Vivienne Bozalek
• Puplisher‎:‎ Routledge
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781138677272