What Do University Teachers Do All Day (and Often into the Night)?

Autor/in	Arnold, Josie
Titel	What Do University Teachers Do All Day (and Often into the Night)?
Quelle	In: Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 7 (2010) 1, Artikel 2 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1449-9789
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Student Experience; Personal Narratives; Teaching Methods; Teaching Experience; College Faculty; Creativity; School Business Relationship; College Administration; Educational Research; Teacher Researchers; Learning Activities; College Curriculum; Curriculum Development; College Instruction; Lifelong Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Studienerfahrung; Erlebniserzählung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Fakultät; Kreativität; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Lehrerforschung; Lernaktivität; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Hochschullehre; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen
Abstract	Teaching and the student experience are interlocked. This paper takes a personal look at the pleasures and pressures of teaching in contemporary higher education. In doing so it adds to the definition of teachers' work in higher education, surveys some of the creative and positive sides of University teaching and shines a light upon the impact of increased commercialisation and managerial approaches upon academic work. It focuses upon the teaching and learning activities that academics undertake in the service of the university, including the research that adds to and updates their own knowledge, and hence underpins their teaching, so as to enable and enrich the learning journeys of their students. This paper has been written as a personal narrative, as what I have come to call a "subjective academic narrative". The "subjective" refers to acknowledgement of the inevitability of the personal being an integral part of research; the "academic" refers to the analytical and the intellectual ambience in which university research takes place; and the "narrative" refers to the story, that is, the way in which we re-tell all of our research. Above all, this paper contributes to a sense of understanding some of the elements of teaching that are involved in student engagement. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	University of Wollongong. Available from: Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources. Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. Tel: +61-2-4221-3140; Fax: +61-2-4225-8312; e-mail: jutlp@uow.edu.au; Web site: http://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp
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Update	2017/4/10