Learning and Teaching

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Editors: Penny Welch, School of Law, Social Sciences and Communication, University of Wolverhampton and Susan Wright, Danish School of Education, University of Århus

Learning and Teaching (LATISS) is a peer-reviewed journal that uses the social sciences to reflect critically on learning and teaching in the changing context of higher education.

The journal invites students and staff to explore their education practices in the light of changes in their institutions, national higher education policies, the strategies of international agencies and developments associated with the so-called international knowledge economy.

The disciplines covered include politics and international relations, anthropology, sociology, criminology, social policy, cultural studies and educational studies. Recent topics include curriculum innovation, students’ academic writing, PhD research ethics, neo-liberalism and academic identity, and marketisation of higher education.

The readership spans practitioners, researchers and students. It includes undergraduates and postgraduates interested in analysing their experience at university, newly appointed staff taking a qualification in learning and teaching, staff of learning and teaching units, experienced teachers in higher education and researchers on university reform.

Subjects: Education, Social Sciences

 

 

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Interview with Les Back on the Online Publication of His Academic Diary

 

An interview with Les Back, professor of sociology at Goldsmith's College by his colleague in the department, Kate Nash, on the online publication of Academic Diary, his collection of essays reflecting on, often small, incidents in his daily life as an academic in relation to processes of change in higher education in Britain. In a wide-ranging conversation, Les and Kate touch upon the relationship between the form and content of the diary, the changing environment of British academia, the diary as an example of the "sociological imagination" as an attempt to join conversations about what universities are and may become, and the present and future of the university.

 

 

Part 1- Form and Content of the Diary

Part 2- Losses and Gains of Academic Life

Part 3- Sociological Imagination

Part 4- New and Old Technologies of Writing

 

Forthcoming Issue, Winter 2011

Volume 4 • Issue 3 • 2011

EDITORIAL
Penny Welch and Susan Wright

ARTICLES

Cultures of learning and learning culture: Socratic and Confucian approaches to teaching and learning
Jonathan Gorry

A Public Secret: ‘education for quality’ and suicide among Chinese elite university students
Susanne Bregnbæk

COMMENTARIES

Sanford F. Schram, David Mills, Tim May, Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt, Peter Quiddington, Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich and Davydd Greenwood

BOOK REVIEWS

Myra H. Strober (2011) Interdisciplinary Conversations. Challenging Habits of Thought
Review by Silvia Rief

Gabriela Pleschová (ed.) (2010) IT in Action: Stimulating Quality Learning at Undergraduate Students
Review by John Craig

Les Back (2010-11) Academic Diary http://www.academic-diary.co.uk/ and Sally Fincher, Janet Finlay, Isobel Falconer, Helen Sharp and Josh Tenenberg (2008-11) The Share Project
Review by Dorothy Sheridan and Barry Stierer

Sabine Hikel (ed.) Leaving Academia: Offering Resources for Academic Leavers and Accounting for the Phenomenon of Brain Drain in Academia
Review by Gabriela Edlinger