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

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

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

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

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781787695368
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date: 08/06/2020
Series: Great Debates in Higher Education
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x (d)

About the Author

Amanda French is Head of Professional Development, Research and Enterprise at Birmingham City University’s School of Education and Social Work, UK. She is interested in higher education policy and social justice in education. 


Kate Carruthers Thomas is Senior Research Fellow in Social Sciences at Birmingham City University, UK. She specialises in interdisciplinary enquiry into contemporary higher education, inequalities and gender.

Table of Contents

Preface: Teaching Excellence as 'Institutional Polishing'? Kate Carruthers Thomas Amanda French 1

1 Elusive and Elastic, and 'Incorrigibly Plural': Definitions and Conceptualisations of Teaching Excellence John Sanders Joanne Moore Anna Mountford-Zimdars 11

2 Operationalising Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: From 'Sheep-dipping' to 'Virtuous Practice' John Sanders Joanne Moore Anna Mountford-Zimdars 47

3 'Wishing Won't Make It So': Deliverology, TEF and the Wicked Problem of Inclusive Teaching Excellence Julian Crockford 95

4 Rapport and Relationships: The Student Perspective on Teaching Excellence Jenny Lawrence Hollie Shaw Leanne Hunt Donovan Synmoie 129

5 'It's not what Gets Taught, or How Well It may Be Taught, but who Is Doing the Teaching': Can Student Evaluations Ever Deliver a Fair Assessment on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education? Amanda French 151

6 Queering The TEF Brendan Bartram 179

7 Diversity Deficits: Resisting the TEF Andrew Brogan 201

Postscript Amanda French Kate Carruthers Thomas 227

About the Contributors 233

Index 237

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