Academic Development and its Practitioners

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• Publisher: Sun Press
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781991201676
• Edition: 0

The chapters in this collection are reflections of the intellectual, emotional and day-to-day experiences of professional staff engaged in academic development. They provide the reader with glimpses of how academic developers at one South African university are continuously shaping their identities through sense-making processes, how they creatively apply different theoretical approaches to both analysing and informing their work and what their views are of the practical and systemic challenges facing higher education. As such this book expands on as well as challenges the dominant ways of thinking about academic development and academic developers in higher education.

Table of contents

• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1: “We have wi nd in our sails”: Enablers that moved teaching and learning towards the centre of whatis valued at Stellenbosch University
• 2: Imperfect erasure: How does it feel to be an academic developer?
• 3: Journeys of being and becomingacademic developers at SU
• 4: Professional educational development of early career academics: Are we offering them what they need?
• 5: Can a professional development programme enhance the work of a teaching and learning centre?
• 6: Navigating a midway between using student feedback for evaluation and enhancing teaching practice at Stellenbosch University as a research-intensive university
• 7: Graduate attributes: Passe out of the impasse
• 8: Decolonial opportunities: Thrid spaces as a deconstructive site of learning for teachers @CTL @ SU
• 9:"Enlarging the space of the possible”: Re-conceptualising teaching excellence awards for the public good
• 10: A care-full approach to professional development in a science context
• 11: Enabling access to scholarly engineering education practices