-Addresses the issue of teaching excellence and teaching expertise in higher education
-Offers practical, implementable ideas based on experience and scholarship
-Considers the characteristics of teaching expertise and how this translates to teaching excellence
Helen King is Deputy Director and Professor of Academic Practice at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Part I: Perspectives on expertise for teaching in higher education 1. The characteristics of expertise for teaching in higher education 2. Critical reflection as a tool to develop expertise in teaching in higher education 3. Zhuangzi and the phenomenology of expertise: implications for educators 4. A whole-university approach to building expertise in higher education teaching 5. The importance of collaboration: valuing the expertise of disabled people through social confluence 6. Supportive woman, engaging man: gendered differences in student perceptions of teaching excellence Part II: Pedagogical content knowledge 7. Exploring and developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge in higher education 8. Professional identity in clinical legal education, re-enacting the disciplinary concept of 'thinking like a lawyer' 9. Reflective practice as a threshold concept in the development of Pedagogical Content 10. Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge through the integration of education research and practice in higher education Part III: Professional learning for higher education teaching 11. Professional learning for higher education teaching: an expertise perspective 12. Educative case-making: a learner-centred approach to supporting the development of pedagogical expertise in higher education 13. Collaboration and mentoring to enhance professional learning in higher education Part IV: The artistry of teaching 14. Developing adaptive expertise: what can we learn from improvisation and the performing arts? 15. Developing the improvising teacher: implications for professionalism and the development of expertise 16. Emotion work and the artistry of teaching