Learning Development in Higher Education: Crisis, Practice, and Power in the 21st Century University

This book examines the experiences of Learning Development as a pedagogic practice in higher education. Taking a philosophical approach, the book uses the perspective of a fictionalised Learning Developer to investigate the nature of power relations within the university, and how and why they lead to an ongoing sense of 'crisis' in higher education teaching practice.

Although Learning Developers and other teachers in higher education are subject to the constraints of power relations within ...