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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453864203321

Autore

Ashwin Paul <1970->

Titolo

Analysing teaching-learning interactions in higher education [[electronic resource] ] : accounting for structure and agency / / Paul Ashwin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2009

ISBN

1-282-13662-3

9786612136627

0-8264-3239-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in education

Disciplina

378.125

Soggetti

College teaching

Teacher-student relationships

Interaction analysis in education

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-162) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Conceptualizing structure and agency in relation to teaching-learning interactions; 3 Current ways of analysing the relations between structural-agentic processes and teaching-learning interactions; 4 Analysing the relations between teaching-learning environments and teaching-learning interactions; 5 Analysing the relations between student and academic identities and teaching-learning interactions; 6 Analysing the relations between disciplinary knowledge practices and teaching-learning interactions

7 Analysing the relations between institutional cultures and teaching-learning interactions8 Implications for researching teaching-learning interactions; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Whilst current research into teaching and learning offers many insights into the experiences of academics and students in higher education, it has two significant shortcomings. It does not highlight the dynamic ways in which students and academics impact on each other in teaching-learning interactions or the ways in which these interactions



are shaped by wider social processes. This book offers critical insight into existing perspectives on researching teaching and learning in higher education and argues that alternative perspectives are required in order to account for structure and agency in