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The Theme Of The Book Is That The Drive For Quality In Britain And Elsewhere, And The Reform Of Teaching And Learning Processes Have Not Been Connected, Organizationally Or In Practice: Change Has Been Driven By The Search For Efficiency And By A Quest For Greater Bureaucratic Accountability. Harvey And Knight Argue That, Whatever The Merits Of These Developments, They Have Not Been Directly Concerned To Improve The Quality Of Student Learning. They Argue Not Just That Student Learning Ought To Be At The Centre Of Discussions About Quality Enhancement, But That The Goal Ought To Be Transformation: Transformation Of Universities With A View To Transforming Learners.--jacket. 1. Quality And Learning -- 2. Students And Staff -- 3. Employers -- 4. Policy And Accountability -- 5. External Quality Monitoring -- 6. Quality As Transformation -- 7. View Of Learning -- 8. Assessment For Learning -- 9. Teaching -- 10. Professional Development For Transformative Learning -- 11. Conclusions. Lee Harvey And Peter T. Knight. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Author

Lee Harvey and Peter T. Knight

Publisher

Open University Press, Taylor & Francis, 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007-1598; phone: 800-821-8312; fax: 215-785-5515 ($35.95)

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780335195909

Subjects

Education