- Journal of Pedagogic Development
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- Instructions to authors
- Volume 8 Issue 3 November 2018
- Volume 8 Issue 2 July 2018
- Volume 8, Issue 1 March 2018
- Volume 7, Issue 3 November 2017
- Volume 7, Issue 2 July 2017
- Volume 7, Issue 1 March 2017
- Volume 6, Issue 3 November 2016
- Volume 6, Issue 2 July 2016
- Volume 5 Issue 3 November 2015
- Volume 5 Issue 2 July 2015
- Volume 5 Issue 1 March 2015
- Volume 4 Issue 3
- Volume 4 Issue 2 July 2014
- Volume 4 Issue 1 March 2014
- Volume 3 Issue 3 November 2013
- Volume 3 Issue 2 July 2013
- Volume 3 Issue 1 March 2013
- Volume 2 Issue 3 November 2012
- Volume 2 Issue 2 July 2012
- Volume 2 Issue 1 March 2012
- Volume 1 Issue 2 November 2011
- Volume 1 Issue 1 July 2011
- Instructions to authors
- Volume 8 Issue 3 November 2018
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- The Idea of a Teacher: Paradigms of Change
- Zen and the Art of Classroom Identity Formation
- Book review: The Librarians’ Book on Teaching through Games and Play
- Moving from Learning Developers to Learning Development Practitioners
- Book review: The Mini Book of Teaching Tips for Librarians, 2nd Edition
- Academics’ International Teaching Journeys: Personal Narratives of Transition in Higher Education
- The Impact of Employability on Technology Acceptance in Students: Findings from Coventry ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ London
- Book review: Academics’ International Teaching Journeys: Personal Narratives of Transition in Higher Education
- Holistic Midwifery Education for Holistic Midwives: Reflecting on Personal Educational Philosophy and Pedagogy
- ‘In the Real World….’ Listening to ‘Practitioner Lecturer’ Perspectives of the Relevance in the Business School Curriculum
- “We don’t need to write to learn computer sciences”: Writing Instruction and the Question of First year, Later or Not at all
- Puppets and Pedagogy in Foreign Language Education: The Use of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to Model Hispanic Puppet Theatre as an Integrated Learning Platform
- Volume 8 Issue 2 July 2018
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- Book Reviews
- Why Do People Become Academics?
- Teaching Online (Book excerpt from a work in progress)
- Does a ‘Flipped Classroom’ Approach Add Learning Value?
- Lecture Capture: Reflections on Pedagogy vs. Perception
- Peer Review Activity and a Search Engine based Corpus System
- A Truly ‘Transformative’ MBA: Executive Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Developing Live Projects as Part of an Assessment Regime Within a Dispersed Campus Model
- The Nurse Associate Trainee Deserves a HOTSHOT Education: A Reflective Signature Pedagogical Approach
- Lessons etc
- Article 2
- Contents
- Volume 8, Issue 1 March 2018
- Volume 7, Issue 3 November 2017
- Volume 7, Issue 2 July 2017
- Volume 7, Issue 1 March 2017
- Volume 6, Issue 3 November 2016
- Volume 6, Issue 2 July 2016
- Volume 5 Issue 3 November 2015
- Volume 5 Issue 2 July 2015
- Volume 5 Issue 1 March 2015
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- A Dictionary of Research Concepts and Issues
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- The Architecture of Productive Learning Networks
- Teaching Programming with Computational and Informational Thinking
- Writing in Social Spaces: A social processes approach to academic writing
- ‘So, you want us to do the marking?!’ – peer review and feedback to promote assessment as learning
- Telling timber tales in Higher Education: A reflection on my journey with digital storytelling
- The learning approaches of A Level History and Geography students analysed: a Report from a Sixth Form College
- I am not a superhero but I do have secret weapons! Using technology in Higher Education teaching to redress the power balance
- Open Futures: An enquiry and skills based educational programme developed for primary education and its use in tertiary education
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Jean Baudrillard
- Lo‐tech Tools as Episteme: Rethinking Student Engagement in the Writing Process and Beyond1
- Raising Awareness of Diversity and Social (In)justice Issues in Undergraduate Research Writing: Understanding Students and their Lives via Connecting Teaching and Research
- Volume 4 Issue 3
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- Book reviews
- The Imperial ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½
- Success in Academic Writing
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers Dave Cormier
- Language Centre Online (and beyond)
- No Nonsense Guide to Training in Libraries
- English and Reflective Writing Skills in Medicine
- Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
- Internationalisation and curriculum development: why and how?
- Harkness Learning: Principles of a Radical American Pedagogy
- Growing Environmental Education and Sustainability Within Universities
- Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age (3rd Edition)
- Preventing Too Little Too Late: A Novel Process of Continuous Curriculum Evaluation
- Peer Review of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: International Perspectives
- Helping Students Connect: Architecting Learning Spaces for Experiential and Transactional Reflection
- A methodology for enhancing student writing in the discipline through complementary and collaborative working between central and school based writing development provision
- Volume 4 Issue 2 July 2014
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- A Pedagogic Trinity – Exploring the Art, Craft and Science of Teaching
- In Conversation with… Zoë Readhead, Principal of Summerhill School, Leiston, Suffolk
- Teaching with Infographics: Practicing New Digital Competencies and Visual Literacies
- WAC in FYW: Building Bridges and Teachers as Architects
- A personal journey of discoveries through a DIY open course development for professional development of teachers in Higher Education
- Materialities, Textures and Pedagogies
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers Anton Makarenko
- The Complexities of Teaching 'Inclusion' in Higher Education
- Research Methods in Information (2nd edition)
- Chasing Literacy: Reading and Writing in an Age of Acceleration
- Threshold Concepts: From Personal Practice to Communities of Practice
- Book reviews
- Volume 4 Issue 1 March 2014
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- Peer Tutoring
- Education and Immigration
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Sigmund Freud
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Vivien Hodgson
- Developing Employability for Business
- Assessment for Learning in Higher Education
- International Students Negotiating Higher Education
- A Handbook for Deterring Plagiarism in Higher Education
- ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Teaching in Focus: A Learning Centred Approach
- Augmented didactics in Kindergarten12: An Italian Case History
- What constitutes 'peer support' within peer supported development?
- The Good Paper – A Handbook for Writing Papers in Higher Education
- Effective feedback: An indispensable tool for improvement in quality of medical education
- Writing in the Disciplines: Building Supportive Cultures for Student Writing in UK Higher Education
- A consideration of peer support and peer mentoring within the Professional Teaching Scheme (PTS) at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½
- Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Social Technologies: Facebook, E portfolios and Other Social Networking Services
- Developing a Strategy based Instruction Approach to Teaching and Learning Modern Languages to train ab initio Primary PGCE Trainees
- Book Reviews
- The complexities and challenges of introducing electronic Ongoing Achievement Records in the pre registration nursing course using PebblePad and hand held tablets
- Volume 3 Issue 3 November 2013
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- Book reviews
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: R.J. Harris
- Transforming lives and 'the measure of their states'
- An Investigation into Students' Perceptions of Group Assignments
- Peer Support for Technology Enhanced Learning: developing a community of learners
- Developing Digital Literacy in Construction Management Education: A Design Thinking Led Approach
- Self Directed Learning in Osteopathic Education: identifying and enhancing independent student learning
- Challenges of developing pedagogy through diversity and equity within the new Early Years Foundation (EYFS) curriculum
- Classroom Based Action Research: Revisiting the Process as Customizable and Meaningful Professional Development for Educators
- Fly on the Wall: Can students' learning be enhanced by allowing them to witness their own summative assessment and feedback event?
- Information and Communication Technologies as means for self improvement at remote universities: the example of Urgench State ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, Uzbekistan
- Volume 3 Issue 2 July 2013
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- PAL at UoB!
- Book reviews
- PAL Experience
- Guest Editorial
- Celebrate Citation: Flipping the Pedagogy of Plagiarism in Qatar
- PAL Leader Training at Bournemouth ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½: 12 years on and still evolving
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Paul Natorp
- Electracy: The Internet as Fifth Estate
- Facilitators and Barriers to the Development of PASS at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Brighton
- Pedagogical Inspiration through Martial Arts Instruction
- In response to ‘Celebrate Citation: Flipping the Pedagogy of Plagiarism in Qatar’
- Stress levels and their risk/protective factors among MSc Public Health students
- Citation Matters: Two Essays on the Student Journey of Citation and How Google Scholar and the Principle of Least Effort Can Affect Academic Writing
- Volume 3 Issue 1 March 2013
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- Book reviews
- Guest Editorial
- A multi dimensional approach to principalship
- Cross cultural collaboration with China
- Teachers and Research: What they value and what they do
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas
- Resilience in Adult Learners: some pedagogical implications
- Volunteer tourism and architecture students: What motivates and can best prepare them?
- Enhancing learner knowledge and the application of that knowledge via computer based assessment
- The Impact of an In service Professional Development Course on Writing Teacher Attitudes and Pedagogy
- Reflecting on Professional Practice: The Importance of Motivating Adolescent Girls in Physical Education
- Teachers' views on the introduction and implementation of literacy tasks in the Year 7 Science scheme of learning
- Reflecting on Professional Practice: The Importance of Motivating Adolescent Girls in Physical Education
- Volume 2 Issue 3 November 2012
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- Editorial
- Book reviews
- Transition Trauma
- Improving Course Related Information of Computing Degree Courses for Enhancing Learner Development
- Different Ways of Knowing
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Paulo Friere
- Ethical Issues in Pedagogical Research
- The Future For Primary Physical Education
- A Year on the Frontline Despatches from New FE Teachers
- Nurturing the independent thinking practitioner: using threshold concepts to transform undergraduate learning
- Volume 2 Issue 2 July 2012
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- Book Review
- Editorial The First Year
- HE in FE past, present and future
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Michael Wesch
- Crossing the boundaries of film and architectural pedagogy
- The CLE Writing Retreat 2012: 'Lifting the Mask of the Imposter'
- Simulation in Clinical Education: A Reflective and Critical Account
- Guest Editorial A Harmonics of Teaching and Learning: An Editorial in Three Voices
- VLE segregation or integration? How should distance learning and taught modes be treated?
- Reflecting on the Transition from Practice to Education The Journey to Becoming an Effective Teacher in Higher Education
- Volume 2 Issue 1 March 2012
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- Editorial
- Book Reviews
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Jaques Lacan
- Evaluation of a Global MBA programme
- Peer Assisted Learning: Project Update
- Student engagement and the role of feedback in learning
- Will health students engage with a health information blog
- Learning and Teaching in Business Through Rich and Varied Information Sources
- Thriving as an International Student: Personal responses and the trajectories they create
- Embedding a curriculum based information literacy programme at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½
- Learning Beyond Compliance: A comparative analysis of two cohorts undertaking a first year social work module
- Volume 1 Issue 2 November 2011
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- Editorial
- Book reviews
- Moving Online
- The Gift of Dyslexia
- Open Educational Resources: Shared Solutions for Higher Education
- Information literacy and Web 2.0: developing a modern media curriculum using social bookmarking and social networking tools
- Reading Students' Expectations: a talking point
- Standing Up For Teaching: The 'Crime' of Striving for Excellence
- Can 'Quality Marking' be used to provide effective feedback within Higher Education?
- Scenario Based Evaluation of an Ethical Framework for the Use of Digital Media in Learning and Teaching
- Volume 1 Issue 1 July 2011
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- Editorial
- Book reviews
- I get by with a little help from my friends Peer Assisted Learning
- Research project: Effective academic posters and poster exhibitions
- Brands and movie making: Using storyboards to develop spatial design students' understanding of narrative
- Learning to chat: Developing a pedagogical framework for facilitating online synchronous tutorial discussion
- The role of perception in divergent approaches to teaching and learning through the transition from foundation to bachelor degree: a preliminary exploration
International Students Negotiating Higher Education
By Silvia Sovic and Margo Blythman (Eds.)
Routledge (2013)
Review by John Beaumont Kerridge
It would appear that the origins of this text grew from a development of discussions that began just prior to 2006. This shows in the substance of the papers included. The book is divided into four parts – policy, teaching & learning, language and the counterbalance of home students abroad. The audience is intended to be Higher Education professionals, managers and academics both in the UK and internationally. In these respects, the book is well placed. The offerings of each of the contributing papers are well thought out and robust. There is a significant variety of research methods, as well as a wide range of issues which are addressed. It must be remembered also, however, discussing such a topic as international students and their experiences is going to be difficult when the debate of the basic concept, '…Is a student a customer?' in UK Higher Education has not been concluded.
Key issues are considered from a variety of perspectives. For example, the effect of culture shock for international students upon arrival at a Higher Education institution is considered from the viewpoint of their loss of their home country citizenship along with the rights and protections this affords. The regulatory frameworks of immigration can negate the feeling of freedom in terms of intellectual pursuit, a condition unlikely to affect a UK home student. This brings into contrast the ethical issues of care at a very subtle level which are the responsibility of all service agencies within a Higher Education institution. UK university management is questioned, raising the issue that the concept of internationalisation is not clearly defined and as such developed policies do not take account of the differences that will arise at a level of the student experience. This is both from the management of an institution as well as curriculum engagement.
The papers providing the investigations into the teaching & learning aspects bring into focus even more the cultural differences of international students with both their peers and tutors. Examples are provided where, at a grassroots level, informal segregation is permitted to occur within group work i.e. students being allowed to self-select group membership. On one level this disadvantages international students since they do not mix with other UK-based students, and also deprives them of one major objective of studying in the UK, that is to study with other UK students. The concept of Cosmopolitan learning is appropriately raised in this text and well discussed. It is however an evolving topic, so will no doubt feature in future investigations.
The issue of 'Western-style education' is questioned in terms of the student perspective when comparing teaching and learning approaches. Whilst this issue is not new, investigations provide a helpful understanding of the effect upon international students. For example, students feeling uncomfortable when asking questions of tutors, having no set text book, relatively long assignments and the continuing challenge of what is meant by 'critical evaluation'. What is helpful are the discussions which outline the process international students go through from their first arrival to completion of the course. Either directly or indirectly, evaluations evidence early stress levels, in contrast to those who are successful, exit with higher levels of confidence. Certainly the pedagogic approaches discussed allow the reader to realise much more is needed regarding engagement of student learning in addition to guidance. The balance of tutor intervention is critical in terms of providing an appropriate interactive environment. Student experiences are presented that show a good understanding is needed of an international student need to develop, both on a personal and academic level, and what can happen when the policy, design, or tutor activity are not appropriate or fit for purpose.
Two papers are offered with respect to the issues of language and international students. They present a useful insight into issues that are often overlooked. For example, the different meaning of words from their dictionary definition. The spectre of English for academic purposes is raised and the difficulties this presents. The discussion certainly offers consideration of a change that is needed for student support for this crucial area. This section could have probably benefited from more contributions, particularly for example of the importance of English for academic purposes since this has such a wide impact across so many subjects.
The final counterbalancing section on home students abroad gives a variety of experiences from the very positive to the very negative. This is a useful contrast to this very complex area, and helpful insights for those who are assisting students wanting to study overseas.
Overall this text raises some very useful discussions on internationalisation, offering some challenging views. If these were to be taken into the decision-making forums of Higher Education institutes, it could probably result in the improvement of the holistic experience for all students.
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