Academic Practice Reading

Volume 17, Issue 2 (2020) Becoming Well Read: Charting the complexities of academic reading and navigating the reading journeys of undergraduate and postgraduate students Editorial - Becoming Well Read: Charting the complexities of academic reading and navigating the reading journeys of undergraduate and postgraduate students Angela Rhead and Christopher Little PDF Book Review: Reading at University: How to Improve Your Focus and Be More Critical. Jamie Q Roberts and Caitlin Hamilton Georgina Spencer PDF Framing the text: understanding emotional barriers to academic reading Emma Kimberley and Mark Thursby PDF “It’s not a waste of time!” Academics’ views on the role and function of academic reading: A thematic analysis Kirsty Miller and Hannah Merdian PDF Towards the co-identification of threshold concepts in academic reading Craig Morley PDF Reading to Be: The role of academic reading in emergent academic an...

A part of the  Berghahn Open Anthro  Collection! The first Open Access issue of  Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences has published!   Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal. Editors:  Penny Welch,  Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton   Susan Wright,  Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus Volume 13, Issue 1 Editorial Penny Welch and Susan Wright ...

We are delighted to announce that we have just launched our brand spanking new JLDHE website! We hope you will find its refreshing and modern look more welcoming and easy to navigate. Please check it out and look around, we'll be thrilled to see you there https://journal.aldinhe.ac.uk   On behalf of the JLDHE editors, and with best wishes to all,   Alicja   _____________________________________________________ Dr Alicja Syska, FHEA ,  CeLP Learning Development Advisor for Arts & Humanities  Associate Lecturer in History  Co-Lead Editor at the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education University of Plymouth  Web:  www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/asyska 

UCL Press is delighted to announce a new open access book that is likely to be of interest to list subscribers: Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Education and the Struggle for Social Justice, edited by Andrew Brown and Emma Wisby. Download it free from: https://bit.ly/39SfqOG ********************************** Book title: Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Education and the Struggle for Social Justice: Essays Inspired by the Work of Geoff Whitty Author: Andrew Brown and Emma Wisby Download free: https://bit.ly/39SfqOG ********************************** For 50 years, educator and sociologist Geoff Whitty resolutely pursued social justice through education, first as a classroom teacher and ultimately as the Director of the Institute of Education in London. The essays in this volume - written by some of the most influential authors in the sociology of education and critical policy studies - take Whitty's work as the starting point from whi...

Published: Media Practice and Education vol 21 issue 1.   This is a special issue, in collaboration with Screenworks on the theme of Practice Pedagogies .   Prof Julian McDougall, PFHEA Centre for Excellence in Media Practice Bournemouth University Editor: Media Practice and Education   To unsubscribe from the SEDA list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=SEDA&A=1

Higher Education Quarterly Early View Online Version of Record before inclusion in an issue ARTICLES Blended professionals, technology and online learning: Identifying a socio‐technical third space in higher education Steven White, Su White, Kate Borthwick Version of Record online: 10 February 2020 ARTICLES Justice through higher education: Revisiting White Paper 3 of 1997 Siseko H. Kumalo Version of Record online: 10 February 2020

Dear All I am delighted to share with you the latest issue of PESTLHE .  We have now established a permanent web hosting service so hurrah -and at last. Onwards and upwards. We are now in our 14th year of publication and want to thank all our reviewers and authors for their contributions and support. We look forward to working with you all and welcoming and working with new (and 'old') authors and reviewers to the journal - see the sign up options if you opt to register with the journal - note you don't have to register to view the journal issues.  The latest issues can be found here and we are receiving papers for April/May and October/November 2020.  Thank you for all our reviewers over  Kind regards Jane  (Editor-in-Chief PESTLHE) -- Dr Jane Pritchard Principal Lecturer Educational Development National Teaching Fellow, Senior Fellow HEA Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development  (OCSLD) Wheatley Campus, Oxford +44 01865 48 5774