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

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Teaching in the disciplines
Interrogating practice
• Which roles support student learning in your educational programmes?
• How are people prepared for their roles?
• How does your role complement the role of others?
Organisations that support learning
The Higher Education Academy (2007) exists to help institutions, discipline groups
and higher education staff in the UK to provide the best possible learning experience for
their students. It has a particularly relevant subject centre for nursing and midwifery
educators: the Centre for Health Sciences and Practice (2007). It also links together the
work of 74 Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs, 2007). There are
several health-related CETLs, including some that focus on interprofessional learning,
e-learning or professionalism. For those interested in researching their educational
practice, useful information and contacts may be obtained from the British Educational
Research Association (BERA, 2007). BERA contains a number of special interest groups
(SIGs), including one for learning in the professions. Interprofessional learning has a
particular champion in CAIPE (UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional
Education, 2007).
OVERVIEW
This chapter has discussed key aspects of teaching, learning and assessment in nursing
and midwifery. It considered the context of education, the required knowledge, skills and
attitudes, strategies used to develop professional expertise and the range of roles that
support learning. In a single chapter it is not possible to provide more than a glimpse of
these issues; those who are interested are invited to follow up some of the references and
suggestions for further reading.
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Barr, H, Hammick, M, Freeth, D, Koppel, I and Reeves, S (2000) Evaluations of Interprofessional
Education: A United Kingdom Review for Health and Social Care, London: CAIPE/BERA.
Barr, H, Koppel, I, Reeves, S, Hammick, M and Freeth, D (2005) Effective Interprofessional
Education: Argument, Assumption and Evidence, Oxford: Blackwell.