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Exploring Disciplinary Teaching Excellence in Higher Education

Student-Staff Partnerships for Research

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Editors:
  1. Marion Heron

    1. Surrey Institute of Education, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

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  2. Laura Barnett

    1. Surrey Institute of Education, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

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  3. Kieran Balloo

    1. Surrey Institute of Education, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

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  • Uses a student-staff partnership approach to focus on disciplinary perspectives of learning and teaching excellence
  • Presents practical examples of student-staff partnership projects
  • Provides a range of disciplinary research guides to support teachers in carrying out pedagogic research

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Exploring ‘Excellence’ in Disciplinary Contexts Through Student-Staff Partnerships

    • Sophie Williams, Malina Pricop, Marion Heron, Kieran Balloo, Laura Barnett
    Pages 1-20

  3. What Teaching Excellence Means to Undergraduate Students on a STEM Programme

    • Julia Matyjasiak, Alfred Thumser
    Pages 21-37

  4. Evaluating Teaching Excellence from a Disciplinary Perspective

    • Charlotte Foreman, Ali Musawi
    Pages 39-55

  5. Students as Co-creators of Visual Mnemonics Using LEGO®: An Evaluation of a Higher Education Revision Session Using an Adapted LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) Methodology

    • Debbie Gooch, Rachel Stead, Daisy Haywood, Lewis Jerrom
    Pages 57-74

  6. How Can Mandatory Elements of Moving and Handling Be Delivered to Enhance Student Engagement?

    • Orlando Caetano, Nicola Dallimore
    Pages 75-90

  7. Exploring ‘Teaching Excellence’ in Vocational Theatre Training: What Role Does It Play in Enabling Student Success?

    • Jo Franklin, Ryan Anstey
    Pages 91-107

  8. An Exploration into Student and Staff Perceptions on the Use of Audio-Visual Content as a Measure of Teaching Excellence

    • Lauren Regan, Iman Ezidy
    Pages 109-125

  9. Perceptions of Teaching Excellence and Satisfaction Amongst Chinese-Educated Students at a UK University

    • Xeina Ali, James Tatam, Jiayu Le, Kristy Yeung, Tom Bond
    Pages 127-143

  10. International Student Collaborations to Achieve Teaching Excellence in Higher Education

    • Ramsha Saleem, Alireza Behnejad, Nayar Cuitláhuac, Armin Mottaghi Rad
    Pages 145-162

  11. Co-Creating Teaching Excellence in Curriculum Design Through Leadership and Entrepreneurship

    • Jashim Khan, Tang Yuqing, Yuan Yue, Zhang Yuheng
    Pages 163-181

  12. Towards a Pedagogically Healthy University: The Essential Foundation for Excellence in Student-Staff Partnerships

    • Ian M. Kinchin
    Pages 183-197

  13. Creating ‘Excellent’ Partnerships: Reflections on Practice

    • Laura Barnett, Marion Heron, Kieran Balloo
    Pages 199-208
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About this book

This book explores disciplinary teaching excellence through a diverse range of student-staff partnership research projects. Despite being a highly contested term, ‘teaching excellence’ is something that universities aspire to and are expected to have. However, the editors and contributors argue that not only are definitions of excellence often broad and generic, but they lack nuanced understandings of disciplinary excellence in higher education. This book begins by unpacking some of these contested definitions of teaching excellence, followed by a series of co-authored chapters produced by students and staff who have undertaken research projects where they examine teaching excellence in their respective disciplinary areas. These chapters demonstrate that teaching excellence may be better understood as a process of becoming that is achieved through partnership between teachers and students. This book will be of interest and value to students, educators, and policy-makers concerned about teaching excellence, as well as scholars of student-staff partnerships.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Surrey Institute of Education, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

    Marion Heron, Laura Barnett, Kieran Balloo

About the editors

Laura Barnett is Lecturer in the Surrey Institute of Education, University of Surrey, UK. Her disciplinary background is in sociology and her research interests relate to everyday social experiences, inequalities and widening participation linked to learning and teaching in higher education. 



Kieran Balloo was Lecturer in the Surrey Institute of Education, University of Surrey, UK. His disciplinary background is in psychology and his current research broadly explores the impact of students’ backgrounds and the university environment on their experiences of higher education.



Marion Heron is Senior Lecturer in the Surrey Institute of Education, University of Surrey, UK. Her disciplinary background is applied linguistics and she currently researches in the area of educational linguistics. She has worked in a teacher education role in a variety of national and international contexts.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exploring Disciplinary Teaching Excellence in Higher Education

  • Book Subtitle: Student-Staff Partnerships for Research

  • Editors: Marion Heron, Laura Barnett, Kieran Balloo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69158-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69157-8Published: 14 August 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69160-8Published: 15 August 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69158-5Published: 13 August 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 208

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education, Research Methods in Education, Research Skills, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Learning & Instruction

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