Abstract
This chapter offers an overview of the promises and challenges of teaching and learning in today’s universities. It presents an account of the relationship between prevailing market forces and an increasingly diverse student body,
and of the special role university teachers can play in helping their students develop the knowledge, language and skills to become active and successful participants in their academic studies. By drawing on case studies of current university lecturers and students, as well as research findings, the chapter looks at the many ways teaching and learning in universities have changed in recent times and also at how students themselves have changed. Both these
changes have profound implications for the experience and practice of teaching in the modern university.
and of the special role university teachers can play in helping their students develop the knowledge, language and skills to become active and successful participants in their academic studies. By drawing on case studies of current university lecturers and students, as well as research findings, the chapter looks at the many ways teaching and learning in universities have changed in recent times and also at how students themselves have changed. Both these
changes have profound implications for the experience and practice of teaching in the modern university.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Successful university teaching in times of diversity |
| Editors | Nicola Rolls, Andrew Northedge, Ellie Chambers |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Chapter | 1 |
| Pages | 3-23 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 1137536683 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1137536691 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Publication series
| Name | Palgrave teaching and learning |
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| Publisher | Palgrave |