RLTPA: STUDY AREA 8

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Evaluation and Enhancement of Professional Practice

Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to ways of Thinking and Practising Within the Disciplines

Mayer, J. & R. Land (2003)

Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses: Report 4.

Understanding Action Research

Riel, M. (2010)

Center For Collaborative Action Research, Pepperdine University.

Enacting Metalearning Using Performance Based Research in conjunction with Meyer’s Reflections on Learning Inventory… etc.

Connolly, R. & S. C. Ward (2010)

London: Palatine, Higher Education Academy

From Minsk to Pinsk: why a scholarship of teaching & learning?

Shulman, L. S. (2000)

The Journal of Scholarship of Teaching & Learning 1.1, California State University East Bay.

Teaching for Transformation: From Learning Theory to Teaching Strategies

McGonigal, K. (2005)

Speaking of Teaching newsletter, 14.2, Centre for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University.

Notes for a contribution to a workshop on Perspectives in Spirituality.

Whitehead, J. (2003)

Graduate School of Education of the University of Bristol, 19th March, 2003.

Action Research for Professional Development: concise advice for new action researchers

McNiff, J. (2002)

Dorset: September Books, www.jeanmcniff.com.

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RLTPA: Study Area 8

Evaluation and Enhancement of Professional Practice

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