Meeting the Challenges of Change in Postgrad Education

This is a text that might be of interest to PhD supervisors and course coordinators in the School. Meeting the Challenges of Change in Postgraduate Education is an edited collection by Trevor Kerry and claims to take a radical look at the nature of adult learning in the postgraduate context and the implications of this for universities and their courses. Schools have had to undergo major re-assessments about how learning is developed into the curriculum, how learning is delivered to students, and how that learning is assessed. Universities has remained very largely detached from these pedagogical/andragogical issues.

However, the circumstances of higher education provision have changed. There is also real pressure now from vocationalism. Meeting the Challenges of Change in Postgraduate Education places these movements in both a UK and a wider context, examines the nature of learning and teaching in postgraduate education and opens up the debate for rethinking university provision. Trevor Kerry is Professor of Education Leadership at the Centre for Educational Research and Development at Lincoln University, UK. The book will be released June 2010 by Continuum.