Teaching in higher Education - call for papers

CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE on “Purposes, knowledge and identities”

There is a growing international consensus about the purposes of higher education which has not been sufficiently challenged and debated in the public domain. Fundamental shifts are taking place in what counts as knowledge, how and where it is created and accessed, and what purposes it serves. This has implications for what needs to be known, and ways of knowing and learning, which affect what it means to be a teacher and a learner in higher education.
We welcome contributions which explore knowledge, identities and teaching in relation to the purposes of higher education.

Questions might include:

• What kinds of knowledge are brought into play in teaching?
• What do we need to know in order to understand teaching?
• In what ways are teaching and the conditions of teaching being critically re-imagined and transformed?
• What sorts of identities are brought into play in teaching and what alternative identities are possible?
• How are teachers' roles and sense of self changing?
• What might be the broader purposes of higher education?
• How do the purposes of higher education relate to wider processes of social change, the needs of employers, social inclusion and economic competitiveness?
• Are these relationships changing and should they be challenged?

We encourage contributions from a wide range of perspectives and different ways of giving voice to the lived realities of teaching in higher education including critically reflective accounts of practice and what it is to be a teacher.

Contributions might explore:

• What a teacher needs to know
• The perception that forms of knowledge are less stable both within and without the university
• The relationships between disciplinary and personal, public, and professional knowledge
• The social, economic and political contexts of teaching
• Whether teaching expertise and scholarship are being reframed
• Changing relationships between universities and other providers of higher education and their communities and contexts

Articles, together with an abstract of 150/200 words, should be forwarded by email to: Professor Sue Clegg, Editor, c/o Alison Stanton, Teaching in Higher Education, a.stanton@leedsmet.ac.uk on or before 31st August 2008.

You have received this email because you are registered to receive alerts for related publications and we believe this may be of interest to you.
Should you wish to stop receiving these emails, please go to: http://www.informaworld.com, sign in and update your account preferences accordingly.

The email address you are subscribed with is: dcotton@plymouth.ac.uk

Please do not reply to this email. To ensure that you receive alerts and information from informaworld^TM please add 'alerts@informaworld.com' and 'info@informaworld.com' to your safe senders list.

 

 

Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research

We have now published the second issue of Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research – see www.warwick.ac.uk/go/reinventionjournal

 

Volume 1 Issue 1 of the journal has proved to be a big success. We have had nearly 600 readers of Vol 1 Iss 1 in the first two months alone and our site has now had 25,000 hits and around three and a half thousand individual visitors. We are now undertaking research to discover how the publishing experience has affected students, including how students' understanding of their area of interest might have been altered. We are also developing training opportunities for students who want to get involved with peer review or want to submit a paper for publication.

 

Building on our success we are now opening the journal up to submissions from all undergraduate students, rather than just those based at Warwick and Oxford Brookes. This will be an exciting development and any ideas you might have on how we can spread the word of the journal to institutions around the UK and internationally will be gratefully received. Opening up to all students has meant that we have already experienced an increase in submissions for our October 2008 issue - it seems there is a real demand for a publication such as ours and undergraduates are extremely keen to develop their work for publication.

 

Call for Contributions

 

An academic journal for the publication of undergraduate research

Peer-reviewed

Online

Published twice a year

Run collaboratively by staff and students at the

University of Warwick and Oxford Brookes University

Welcomes submissions from ALL subject areas and ALL undergraduate students

Launch issue and Volume 1, Issue 1 available online

 

Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research

Reinvention is a new, online, peer-reviewed journal, dedicated to the publication of

high-quality undergraduate student research from all disciplines and all students.

The Reinvention Centre

The journal is funded by the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research, a

collaborative Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at the

University of Warwick and Oxford Brookes University. The Reinvention Centre

promotes research-based learning.

Undergraduate Authors

Reinvention publishes papers based on research carried out by undergraduate

students. The journal is now open to submissions from all undergraduate students in

the UK and overseas.

Multi-disciplinary

Reinvention welcomes submissions from all academic disciplines and aims to

illustrate the range of research currently being conducted by undergraduate

students.

Peer-reviewed

All papers accepted by Reinvention are subject to double-blind peer review. The

journal aims to provide a supportive environment in which students can learn more

about writing for publication and as such reviewers give substantial and constructive

feedback. Training will be provided to enable students to become peer reviewers.

Collaboration

Reinvention is produced, edited and managed by students and staff at Oxford

Brookes University and the University of Warwick. It is published bi-annually in April

and October.

Online

Reinvention is hosted electronically on its own dedicated website:

www.warwick.ac.uk/go/reinventionjournal . The website is fully interactive and allows

photographs, diagrams, URLs and film clips to be embedded into papers.