Case Studies on Teaching in Higher Education Book

	Foreword	8
	Acknowledgements	10
	Introduction	11
	Simon Cartwright and Paul Wilkinson: Making known evaluation criteria for style and content; dealing with a 'difficult' student and admitting being wrong	19
	Just Desserts: Student-teacher interaction outside the classroom - handling 'an incident'	24
	Did She or Did She Not?: Plagiarism - establishing intent and how to deal with it	29
	Too Much 'Glasnost' in the Classroom?: Student-teacher communication and perceptions of the teaching/learning contract	36
	A Disgruntled Teacher ...?: Poor assignments and effective communication of what is required; dealing with student complaints	43
	Blue Moves: Responding to 'an incident' in class	49
	Goodies and Baddies: Introducing innovative teaching methods in an uncongenial environment	55
	The Unexpected Telephone Call: The role of teachers in counselling students	63
	The Discontented Student: The teaching/learning contract and differing expectations; choices on participation and their consequences	70
	Samuel's Seminars: A challenge to a teacher's authority and credibility by a senior colleague; the teacher's response and student reactions	76
	The 'A' versus 'D' Project: Making individual exceptions to general rules - when and in what circumstances	82
	Barry's Field Trip: Allowing individual expression and the implications for others	88
	The Late Assignments: Late assignment penalties - negotiation and implementation of a contract	94
	The Obesity Outburst: Student and teacher expectations of class sessions; dealing with a challenge	104
	A Case of Credibility: Teaching a mixed group with differing expectations; handling differences between taught material and textbooks	110
	The Median Marks Issue: Teachers' rights to introduce their own practices and colleagues' rights to question them	116
	Tokenism: Gender issues and credentials; difficulties of discussion in large, traditional lecture settings	123
	Animal Rights: Handling conscientious objections	130
	The Shared Course: Dealing with students' dissatisfaction with a colleague	134
	The Case of the Emotional Professor: Student-teacher rapport and accepting cultural and language differences	141
	Annotated Bibliography	146
	Appendix: The Use of Teaching Case Studies in Seminars for Staff Development	153
	Subject Index	160