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Based on nearly two decades of research and direct observations of university teaching by the author, this book aims to offer a scholarly account of teacher development. It focusses on elements that will be of immediate utility to academics who want to develop their teaching to a level of adaptive experts, offering them greater autonomy in their role and a powerful understanding of teaching to escape the repressive routines of the traditional classroom.
Rather than providing a comprehensive review of educational research, this book provides a route through selected theories that can be explored in practice by university teachers on their own or in groups. The book will help academics to identify the nature of powerful knowledge within their disciplines and consider ways that this may be used by students to become active and engaged learners through the manipulation and transformation of knowledge, and so become expert students.
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Book Title: Visualising Powerful Knowledge to Develop the Expert Student
Book Subtitle: A Knowledge Structures Perspective on Teaching and Learning at University
Authors: Ian M. Kinchin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-627-9
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-627-9Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 134
Topics: Education, general