Enhancing Learning And Teaching In Higher Education: Engaging With The Dimensions Of Practice by John Lea
This is not a book I would read for pleasure. I mostly read it to help me pass my second attempt at passing the PGCAP exam. The book was probably the best one I have read in which was written in
PGCAP style, but many things in the book annoyed me. Unlike other books, written by people who
believe the PGCAP world view, there were a few useful ideas in it.
One section annoyed me. The author wanted to show that the number of undergraduate students has grown by a huge amount. Rather, then the authors finding the information out, they proposed that the reader as an exercise should find it out and they subtly hinted that Wikipedia should be consulted. One od the reasons, I buy books is so that I am not reliant on Wikipedia. I can see that the author, thought that, this exercise of collecting student number in Universities as a function of time, would engage the readers. I just felt the author was being lazy. If they wrote the chapter, they should have found out the information and perhaps created a good graph.
This is one of the problems with some of the ideas of pushing more of the work to the students. Sometimes it makes the module leader lazy.
This is one of the problems with some of the ideas of pushing more of the work to the students. Sometimes it makes the module leader lazy.
