Challenging the Teaching Excellence Framework: Diversity Deficits in Higher Education Evaluations

✍ Scribed by Kate Carruthers Thomas (editor), Amanda French (editor)

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Great Debates in Higher Education
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) s aims, implementation and effect on the English higher education sector remains a controversial and often contested subject. This text offers a stimulating and wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of the implications of the TEF on the UK s fast-moving policy environment, and increasingly neoliberal higher education sector.

Questioning the basic premise of the TEF, the authors tease out how students and staff are affected in different and often unfair ways by its implementation. Whilst acknowledging that the TEF has focused management attention on ways in which a diverse student population is, or is not, supported in their learning, this book highlights how it remains problematically silent on other kinds of diversity in the system such as specialised courses, diverse teaching styles, and varying institution sizes.

Offering readers ways of rethinking and resisting teaching excellence , this book provides a timely examination of how, in various ways, the TEF, treated as an exclusionary quality assurance system, is likely to reinforce extant structural inequalities and competitive hierarchies in the sector.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
CHALLENGING THE TEACHING EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK
Series Page
CHALLENGING THE TEACHING EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK: Diversity Deficits in Higher Education Evaluations
Copyright
CONTENTS
Preface: Teaching Excellence as ‘Institutional Polishing’?
Introduction
Let's Get Etymological
The Performativity of Excellence
Teaching Excellence and Diversity Deficits (Book Title)
Teaching Excellence as ‘Institutional Polishing’?
References
1. Elusive and Elastic, and ‘Incorrigibly Plural’: Definitions and Conceptualisations of Teaching Excellence
Abstract
Introduction
Defining and Conceptualising Teaching Excellence
Ground Clearing
Teaching Excellence
Conceptualisations of Teaching Excellence at Different Levels
Conclusion
References
2. Operationalising Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: From ‘Sheep-dipping’ to ‘Virtuous Practice’
Abstract
Introduction
Building Capability and Supporting Excellence
Recognition and Reward
Teaching Excellence Awards
Scholarship and the Research-teaching Nexus
Disciplinary Dimensions
Individual Teaching Excellence: Checklists and Comparisons
Conclusion
References
3. ‘Wishing Won't Make It So’: Deliverology, TEF and the Wicked Problem of Inclusive Teaching Excellence
Abstract
Emergence
‘We Care’ – Target Setting and Social Mobility
TEF: A Mutant Deliverology?
Structural Complexity
Metric Complexity
TEF as a Policy Lever
Complexity and ‘Wickidity’ at the Level of Individual Metrics
Strategic Ambiguity
References
4. Rapport and Relationships: The Student Perspective on Teaching Excellence
Abstract
Introduction
Interpersonal Relationships
Student Perspectives on Teaching Excellence: Rapport
Leanne Hunt: Rapport and Relationships at the University of Bradford
Hollie Shaw: Student-Centred Teaching and Interpersonal Relationships at the University Centre, North Lindsey College
Barriers to Building Interpersonal Relationships in the HE Classroom
Structural Impediments, Personal Boundaries and Identity
Diversity and Difference
Jenny Lawrence and Donovan Synmoie: Unconscious Bias in Teaching Evaluations
Jenny Lawrence: Transcending Difference and Diversity in Pursuit of Teaching Excellence
A Partnership Approach
Leanne Hunt: Students and Teachers Building Rapport
Hollie Shaw: Students and Teachers Understanding Each Other's Working Context
Jenny Lawrence, Hollie Shaw and Leanne Hunt: Students and Teachers United in the Will to Evidence Excellent Teaching
Acknowledgements
References
5. ‘It's not what Gets Taught, or How Well It may Be Taught, but who Is Doing the Teaching’: Can Student Evaluations Ever D ...
Abstract
References
6. Queering the TEF
Abstract
Introduction
Queer Theory?
Scrutinising the TEF
The TEF – Cementing Consumerist Machismo
‘TEFfects’ of the Macho Monolith
Moving Forward with a Queer Eye
References
7. Diversity Deficits: Resisting the TEF
Abstract
Strategies and Places
Tactics and Spaces
Creative Subversion
References
Postscript
References
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX