Peer Review and Post-tenure Review

This essay focuses on four themes, which are post-tenure review as a summative moment in a cycle of formative occasions, the post-tenure period as characterized by flux and change, the post-tenure period as one of crisis in intellectual growth, and peer collaboration and review of teaching as appropriate modes of faculty development.     

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Books reviewed:
Ted Tapper and David Palfreyman (eds) (2005) Understanding Mass Higher Education, Comparative Perspectives on Access. Oxon: Routledge-Falmer. 269pp. ISBN 0-415-35491-9; hardback, £55. Reviewed by Eileen Trotter, University of Salford, UK     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Academic Tribes
Academic Tribes and Territm'es: Intellecrual Enquiry and the Cultures of Disciplines , Becher, Tony
Exploring English: Criticisnt, Them, Culture , Bergonzi, Bernard     

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Economics of education: positive and negative, An introduction to the economics of education M. BLAUG
The economics of educational costing. Inter-country and inter-regional comparisons, IIIA—Capital and returns in education . M. E. LEITE, P. LYNCH, K. NORRIS, J. SHEENAN, and J. VAIZEY     

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Scrutinising aesthetics
The Aesthetic Understanding
by Roger Scruton.     

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'The therapist must be humane' Mental Health and Human Conscience, The True and False Self, E. K. Ledermann     

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Evaluating Higher Education
Evaluating Higher Education , M. Kogan (ed)     

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Academics and War
War and the Image of Gennany: British Academics 1914–1918, Stuart Wallace     

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This essay offers a historical commentary on Turning Points: Preparing Youth for the 21st Century, the 1989 report on middle school education by the Carnegie Council's Task Force on Education of Young Adolescents, The report's opposition to tracking and its advocacy of teacher empowerment, initiatives that have been popular with school reformers of the 1980s, does distinguish Turning Points from earlier proposals for educational change. Most of the report, however, seems to recommend policies that bear a striking similarity to the kind of changes promoted by the advocates of efficiency oriented school reform earlier in the century. The essay examines the historical antecedents for two of these policy recommendations, curriculum integration and school‐based health services. In considering these earlier attempts at reform, this essay identifies flaws that may mitigate the effectiveness of the policies recommended in Turning Points but which the authors of the report fail to mention .     

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Chrestomathia, By Jeremy Bentham (Collected Works, Edited by M.J. Smith and W.H. Burston) Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983. £40.

Authenticity and Learning. By David E. Cooper. Pp. x, 161. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. £11.95.

Making Sense of Piaget ‐ The Philosophical Roots by Christine Atkinson. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983, £11.95.

Morality in the Making: Thought, Action, and the Social Context. Edited by Helen Weinreich‐Haste and Don Locke. Pp. xix, 251. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1983.

The Foundations of Morality. By Joel J. Kupperman. Pp. 162. London: Allen & Unwin, 1983.

Dialogues on Moral Education. By John Wilson and Barbara Cowell. Pp. v, 170. Birmingham, Alabama: Religious Education Press, 1983. $10.95.

Supervision in Teacher Education: A Counselling and Pedagogical Approach. Edgar Stones Pp. 163. London: Methuen 1984. £4.95 (paper); £11.50 (hardback).

Beyond Domination: An Essay in the Political Philosophy of Education. By Patricia White, pp. xii 183. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. £11.95 cloth.

Education as Social Policy, by Janet Finch, pp. ix, 284. London: Longman, 1984. £5.95 (paperback).

Theory and Practice in Education. By R.F. Dearden. Pp. xiii, 169. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. £11.95.

The Politics and Ethics of Evaluation Edited by Clem Adelman, pp 108. London: Croom Helm (1984), price £12.95.

The Education System since 1944. By Peter Gosden. Pp. x, 227. Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1983. £22.50.

Dance, Art and Education, by Betty Redfern. Pp. 131. London: Dance Books, 1983 £8.95

Countering Educational Design. By Ted Nunan. pp. 130. London and Canberra: Croom Helm. New York: Nichols Publishing Co. 1983. £11.95     

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Mr. Flood Page is Lecturer in Education at the University of Bradford. Small Group Instruction: Theory and Practice by J. A. Olmstead     

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Book Reviewed in This Article:
Hypertext Hands Onl. Ben Shneiderman and Greg Kearsley, Addison Wesley
The Society of Text: Hypertext, Hypemiedia and the Social Construction of Information, E Barrett
Educational Media and Technology Yearbook: 1989, Volume 15, Brenda Broadbent and R Kent Wood
LOGO Mathematics in the Classroom. Celia Hoyles and Rosamund Sutherland
Women in Engineering, Ruth Carter and Gill Kirkup
The Facilitators' handbook, John Heron
Simulation-gaming: On the Improvement of Competence in Dealing with Complexity, Uncertainty and Value Conflicts, J Klabbers
Simulation and Gaming: Pathways to Progress, Andrew Miller and David Crookall
Open and Flexible Learning Centres, W J Davies