Higher education has changed enormously in recent years. For instance, it now serves a more diverse range of students and is under closer government scrutiny and control. There is consequently a significant number of academics who are uneasy with current values and practices and who work with them reluctantly. Universities may speak publicly of efficiency and effectiveness but they cannot function successfully if their academic staff are disillusioned. Changing Academic Work explores the competing tensions in contemporary work: the need to balance individualism with collaboration; accountability with reward; a valuing of the past with preparation for the future. The aim is to help staff build a contemporary university which is as much a learning organization as an organization about learning. Elaine Martin develops a set of simple but sound principles to guide academic work and, through case study material, she provides engaging and convincing illustrations of these principles in action. She offers insight and guidance for academic staff at all levels who wish to make their working environment more satisfying and productive.
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"This book provides essential reading for all those that lead and manage educational institutions." - Mike Cook Nurse Education Today 20030429
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Elaine Martin is Professor and Head of the Curriculum and Academic Development Unit, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. She has worked and researched in the area of tertiary teaching and academic staff development in both the UK and Australia for twenty years.
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All of us involved in university life know that higher education has had to change in recent times and while we might acknowledge that some of that change has been necessary, and even praiseworthy, most of us would recognize that change has come at a price. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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All of us involved in university life know that higher education has had to change in recent times and while we might acknowledge that some of that change has been necessary, and even praiseworthy, most of us would recognize that change has come at a price. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new combined department, student learning literature, learning organization literature, merging departments, academic staff, subject coordinator, teaching portfolio, two tutors, deep approaches Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Experience of Learning Pb by Morton F. Houns in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Experience of Learning by F. Marton in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Collins Business Essentials) by Thomas J. Peters on page 50, and Back Matter
- Changing University (Society for Research into Higher Education) by Schuller in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge on page 49, and Back Matter
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- Mediating Science Learning through Information and Communications Technology by Richard Holliman on page 137
- Being a Teacher in Higher Education (Copublished With the Society F) by Peter Knight in Back Matter
- UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP (Co-Published With the Society) by BARGH on page 169
- The Higher Education Manager's Handbook: Effective Leadership and Management in Universities and Colleges by Peter McCaffery in Back Matter
- Being A Teacher In Higher Education by Peter Knight in Back Matter
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