Gender Teaching and Research in Higher Education

Gender, Teaching and Research in Higher Education presents new insights and research into contemporary problems, practical solutions, and the complex roles of teaching and learning in the international academy. Drawing together new research from contributors spanning a range of international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book discusses topics of particular importance in the UK, USA, Australasia and South Africa, including: curriculum, boundary disciplines and research assessments, the Higher Education institution, educational practice, authority and authorization, teaching and counselling. Discussion of quality audits, curriculum modifications, teaching certificates and other key topics, add to this book's value in informing current debate and providing valuable research aids for education into the 21st Century. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Women in higher education: Gender audit, Erica Halvorsen; Transcending boundaries: women, research and teaching in the Academy, Sue Jackson; Equal opportunities without ’equality’: redeeming the irredeemable, Val Walsh; Against the odds? Reflections on women academics’ research opportunities, Barbara Bagilhole; Models of higher education: Institutional discrimination and the 'cloistered' academic ideal, Gillian Howie and Ashley Tauchert; Teaching as hospitality: the gendered ’gift’ and teaching style, Alan Bleakley; Lifelong yearning: feminist pedagogy in the learning society, Louise Morley; Pedagogies of, and for, resistance, Christina Hughes; Feminist Pedagogies: Feminist pedagogy and power in the Academy, Penny Welch; Feminist pedagogy and personal engagement in higher education, Barbara Körner; Offensive and defensive: student support and higher education evaluation, Jen Marchbank and Gayle Letherby; Assessment and evaluation: Creative risk-taking: feminist pedagogy and assessment criteria, Zoë Bennett Moore; Gendered patterns in writing and degree award, Becky Francis, Jocelyn Robson and Barbara Read; The sea of possibilities: the learning journal as pedagogy of the unconscious, Jennifer FitzGerald; Overseas Perspectives: Assessment of caring: a feminist curricular transformation, Mary S. Erickson; Feminist pedagogy and international studies, Karen J. Vogel; Queer theory and lesbian politics in the community college, Allison Green; A feminist, collaborative process of academic development, Valerie A. Clifford; Women’s executive development in Australian higher education, Colleen Chesterman; The troublesome concept of merit, Sandra Harding; Index.