Product Description: This is a ‘problem-focused’ book, dealing with significantly changing aspects of higher education – including professional identities, academic values, pedagogies, and quality assurance – and exploring the effects of these changes upon professional life in universities...read more

Product Description: The post-compulsory sector is complex and multifaceted, with highly diverse and sometimes challenging learner groups and subject to change from almost unending shifts in educational policy. Effective mentoring has a crucial role in the initial training of new teachers in the post-compulsory sector offering them the guidance and practical support they need to respond to these challenges...read more

Product Description: Some of the key issues in professional life in education are: how does a teacher define him or herself; how does she/he learn as a professional; and what impact current changes and challenges are having on the nature of professional work...read more