Towards Strategic Staff Development in Higher Education 1st Edition by Richard Blackwell,Paul Blackmore ISBN 0335212093 978-0335212095

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ISBN 10: 0335212093

ISBN 13:  978-0335212095

Author: Richard Blackwell, Paul Blackmore

 This book focuses on strategic staff development in higher education, a sector in which it has been largely viewed as an operational activity with little organizational relevance. The book demonstrates how staff development needs to be based on modern theories of ‘organizational learning’, aligning itself with institutional and departmental needs as well as the wants and needs of individual staff. The book takes a broad definition of staff development and seeks to cover all aspects of the academic role and the interests of all staff. The traditional focus on teaching and learning is covered but not to the exclusion of other aspects or the interface between different roles.

In order to achieve a strategic focus, authors are drawn from a range of backgrounds, including senior staff with strategic leadership roles. The book is, therefore, directed to a wider readership than the community of staff development professionals and designed partly to challenge the dominant discourse and established priorities of staff developers. Towards Strategic Staff Development in Higher Education seeks to combine scholarly review of relevent literature with practical strategies and suggestions for the intended readership, principally senior staff, heads of department and staff development professionals.

Table of contents:

 

List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Preface

Part I: Setting the scene

1. Rethinking strategic staff development
2. Academic roles and relationships
3. The challenge of lifelong learning
4. Promoting entrepreneurship in higher education

Part II: Extra-institutional influences

5. Disciplines and the development of a scholarship of teaching and learning
6. Developing the subject dimension to staff development
7. A new approach to professionalizing teaching and accrediting training: The Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
8. Just another initiative? Investors in People in higher education
9. Leadership and management development: an overview

Part III: Intra-institutional matters

10. Developing departments
11. Research and teaching: making the link
12. Embedding e-learning practices
13. Career development for research staff

Part IV: Case studies

14. Creating a local research culture
15. ‘The best hundred pounds’: Learning Works in the University of Glasgow
16. Using a student-focused learning perspective to align academic development with institutional quality assurance

References
Index

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