Front cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Part I Setting the scene -- Chapter 01 Rethinking strategic sta. development -- Chapter 02 Academic roles and relationships -- Chapter 03 The challenge of lifelong learning -- Chapter 04 Promoting entrepreneurship in higher education -- Part II Extra-institutional in.uences -- Chapter 05 Disciplines and the development of a scholarship of teaching and learning1 Mary Taylor Huber -- Chapter 06 Developing the subject dimension to sta. development -- Chapter 07 A new approach to professionalizing teaching and accrediting training: -- Chapter 08 Just another initiative? -- Chapter 09 Leadership and management development: an overview -- Part III Intra-institutional matters -- Chapter 10 Developing departments -- Chapter 11 Research and teaching: making the link -- Chapter 12 Embedding e-learning practices -- Chapter 13 Career development for research sta. -- Part IV Case studies -- Chapter 14 Creating a local research culture -- Chapter 15 'The best hundred pounds': -- Chapter 16 Using a student-focused learning perspective -- References -- Index -- Back cover.

This book focuses on strategic staff development in higher education, a sector in which it has been largely viewed as an operational activity with little organizational relevance. The book demonstrates how staff development needs to be based on modern theories of 'organizational learning', aligning itself with institutional and departmental needs as well as the wants and needs of individual staff. The book takes a broad definition of staff development and seeks to cover all aspects of the academic role and the interests of all staff. The traditional focus on teaching and learning is covered but not to the exclusion of other aspects or the interface between different roles. In order to achieve a strategic focus, authors are drawn from a range of backgrounds, including senior staff with strategic leadership roles. The book is, therefore, directed to a wider readership than the community of staff development professionals and designed partly to challenge the dominant discourse and established priorities of staff developers. Towards Strategic Staff Development in Higher Education seeks to combine scholarly review of relevent literature with practical strategies and suggestions for the intended readership, principally senior staff, heads of department and staff development professionals.

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