Teacher Thinking, Beliefs and Knowledge in Higher Education

Research on teacher thinking, beliefs and knowledge in higher education Increasingly serious attention is being paid to the quality of learning and teaching in higher education. This is a global concern, associated with calls for greater accountability and efficiency, increases in the size and diver...

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Other Authors: Hativa, N. (Editor), Goodyear, Jeffrey (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Introduction: Research on teacher thinking, beliefs and knowled ge in higher education
  • I: Strategic alertness and expanded awareness within sophisticated concepti ons of teaching
  • 2: Novice and award-winning teachers’ concepts and beliefs about teaching in higher education: Effectiveness, efficacy and evaluation
  • 3: Reflection: Issues related to improving professors' teaching and students' learning
  • 4: Teaching online
  • 5: What university teachers teach and how they teach it
  • 6: Planning introductory college courses: Content, context and form
  • 7: (Thinking about) faculty thinking about teacher and course evaluation results
  • 8: Teaching self-concept in higher education: Reflecting on multiple dimen sions of teaching effectiveness
  • 9: Lecturers’ approaches to teaching and their relationship to conceptions of good teaching
  • 10: Views of learning, teaching practices and conceptions of problem solving in science
  • 11: Learning to teach: Changes in technical college teachers’ beliefs about learning and teaching over a two-year teacher education program
  • 12: Becoming a better teacher: A case of changing the pedagogical knowledge and beliefs of law professors
  • 13: Use of multiple methods in research on college teachers
  • 14: Research on teacher thinking, beliefs, and knowledge in higher education: foundations, status and prospects