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    Values in higher education teaching / Tony Harland and Neil Pickering.

    By: Harland, Tony, 1955-Contributor(s): Pickering, NeilMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011Description: x, 127 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415589215 (hardback); 0415589215 (hardback); 9780415589222 (pbk.); 0415589223 (pbk.); 9780203842003 (ebook); 0203842006 (ebook)Subject(s): College teachers -- Training of -- Case studies | Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- Case studies | Education, Higher -- Case studies | Curriculum enrichment -- Case studiesDDC classification: 378/.014 LOC classification: LB1738 | .H27 2011
    Contents:
    1. Values : What are values? ; Values in teaching ; Values in higher education ; Values narrative: 'Eddie' -- 2. Understanding values in practice : What's worth knowing? ; What's worth learning? ; Valuing academic practice ; Values narrative: 'East of Kinshasa' -- 3. Teaching values : What's worth teaching? ; Six challenges for the values teacher ; Values narrative: 'An old teacher, an old friend' -- 4. Valuing higher education : New values for old ; A variety of purposes ; Shifting (or shifty?) values ; Values narrative: 'No more than an image' -- 5. Foundational values : The public academic ; Capitulation and resistance ; Values narrative: 'The goodbye letters' -- Conclusion: Values narrative: 'The goodbye letters'.
    Summary: 'Values in Higher Education Teaching' explores the way in which teaching, research, learning and higher education are a values enterprise and that an exploration of values is necessary to work out the full purposes of a higher education to guide practices and help academics understand academic work.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-123) and index.

    'Values in Higher Education Teaching' explores the way in which teaching, research, learning and higher education are a values enterprise and that an exploration of values is necessary to work out the full purposes of a higher education to guide practices and help academics understand academic work.

    1. Values : What are values? ; Values in teaching ; Values in higher education ; Values narrative: 'Eddie' -- 2. Understanding values in practice : What's worth knowing? ; What's worth learning? ; Valuing academic practice ; Values narrative: 'East of Kinshasa' -- 3. Teaching values : What's worth teaching? ; Six challenges for the values teacher ; Values narrative: 'An old teacher, an old friend' -- 4. Valuing higher education : New values for old ; A variety of purposes ; Shifting (or shifty?) values ; Values narrative: 'No more than an image' -- 5. Foundational values : The public academic ; Capitulation and resistance ; Values narrative: 'The goodbye letters' -- Conclusion: Values narrative: 'The goodbye letters'.

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