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Academics Responding To Change: New Higher Education Frameworks And Academic Cultures
Author: Trowler, Paul
Paperback; References, Index
192 pages
Published: May 1998
Open University Press
ISBN: 0335199348
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Paul Trowler take a close look inside one British university to explore how academic staff at the ground level respond to changes in higher education. During the period of this study there was a remarkably rapid expansion in student numbers and, at the same time, a shrinking unit of resource. Meanwhile new systems and structures were being put in place, particularly those associated with the 'credit framework': the constellation of features associated with the assignment of credit value to assessed learning, including modularity, franchising and the accreditation of prior learning. The book explores the nature and effects of academics' responses to these changes and develops a framework for explaining these responses. It offers a valuable insight into change in higher education aPaul Trowler takes a closer look inside one British university to explore how academic staff at the ground level respond to changes in higher education. The text explores the nature and effects of academics' responses to these changes and develops a framework for explaining such.


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