Pedagogy in Higher Education

A Cultural Historical Approach

Gordon Wells, Anne Edwards

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781107014657
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107596054
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Psychology

What can Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) contribute to the solution of the problems facing higher education today? This edited volume brings together the work of an international group of scholars and researchers to address this important question. Drawing on contemporary interpretations of CHAT, the contributors take on a wide range of issues, ranging from pedagogy to administration and from teacher preparation to university outreach. An introduction presents the key principles of CHAT. Subsequent chapters address such issues as effective ways of teaching large undergraduate classes, providing support for struggling writers or for students with disabilities, opening up opportunities for students from historically underserved communities, preparing students for the professions, and building bridges between higher education and the wider community. Readers with an interest in higher education will encounter ideas in these chapters that will prompt them to rethink their role in preparing today's students for tomorrow's challenges.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Pedagogy in Higher Education
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Author Biographies
• 1 Introduction: The Changing Face of Higher Education
• 2 Goal Formation and Identity Formation in Higher Education
• 3 Using a Cultural Historical Approach to Understand Educational Change in Introductory Physics Classrooms
• 4 Taking Responsibility for Learning: CHAT in a Large Undergraduate Class
• 5 CHAT and Student Writing
• 6 Assessment in Higher Education: A CHAT Perspective
• 7 The Agency of the Learner in the Networked University: An Expansive Approach
• 8 Supporting Access to Science and Engineering through Scientific Argumentation
• 9 Using CHAT to Understand Systems to Support Disabled Students In Higher Education
• 10 Internship: Navigating the Practices of an Investment Bank
• 11 Identity Change in the Context of Higher Education Institutions
• 12 Developing Skills for Collaborative, Relational Research in Higher Education: A Cultural Historical Analysis
• 13 Teacher Education in the Public University: The Challenge of Democratising Knowledge Production
• 14 What Does “Transformation of Participation” Mean in a University Classroom? Exploring University Pedagogy with the Tools of
• 15 Gentle Partnerships: Learning from the Fifth Dimension
• Index