A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Enhancing academic and Practice

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Teaching, supervising, learning
Ramsden, P (2003, 2nd edn) Learning to Teach in Higher Education, London: RoutledgeFalmer.
Richardson, K (1985) Personality, Development and Learning: Unit 8/9 Learning Theories, Milton
Keynes: Open University Press.
Schön, D (1987) Educating the Reflective Practitioner: Toward a New Design for Teaching and
Learning in the Professions, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Vygotsky, L (1978) Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes,
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Wolf, D M and Kolb, D A (1984) ‘Career development, personal growth and experiential
learning’, in D Kolb, I Rubin and J McIntyre (eds) Organisational Psychology: Readings on
Human Behaviour, 4th edn, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
FURTHER READING
Biggs, J and Tang, C (1999) Teaching for Quality Learning at University (3rd edn), Buckingham:
SRHE/Open University Press. A readable exploration of student learning and how to
constructively align this with teaching.
Merriam, S, Caffarella, R, Baumgartner, L (2006) Learning in Adulthood, San Francisco, CA:
Jossey-Bass. This ranges widely and provides an excellent synopsis of much that we know
about adult learning.
Perkins, D (2006) ‘Constructivism and troublesome knowledge’, in Meyer and Land (2006) as
above, pp. 33–47. A very lucid exposition of some key ideas in learning theory.
Ramsden, P (2003) As above. Much valuable discussion of student learning.
Rust, C (ed.) (2003) Improving Student Learning Theory and Practice – 10 Years on, Oxford: Oxford
Centre for Staff and Learning Development. Good mix of recent research and practice.