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Learning and Teaching
The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences
Aims & Scope
Editors: Penny Welch, School of Law, Social Sciences and Communication, University of Wolverhampton and Susan Wright, Danish School of Education, University of Århus
Learning and Teaching (LATISS) is a peer-reviewed journal that uses the social sciences to reflect critically on learning and teaching in the changing context of higher education.
The journal invites students and staff to explore their education practices in the light of changes in their institutions, national higher education policies, the strategies of international agencies and developments associated with the so-called international knowledge economy.
The disciplines covered include politics and international relations, anthropology, sociology, criminology, social policy, cultural studies and educational studies. Recent topics include curriculum innovation, students’ academic writing, PhD research ethics, neo-liberalism and academic identity, and marketisation of higher education.
The readership spans practitioners, researchers and students. It includes undergraduates and postgraduates interested in analysing their experience at university, newly appointed staff taking a qualification in learning and teaching, staff of learning and teaching units, experienced teachers in higher education and researchers on university reform.
Subjects: Education, Social Sciences
Current Issue
Volume 5, Issue 1, 2012
SPECIAL ISSUE
Towards an Anthropology of Anthropology: the socialisation of aspiring anthropologists
ARTICLES
Navigating doctoral socialisation in Anthropology
Katherine Nielsen and Eli Thorkelson
Choosing a field: how graduate students’ choice of field sites reflect different ideas of ‘real’ anthropology in Colombia and the United States
Laura Macía
Constructing Anthropologists: culture learning and culture making in U.S. doctoral education
Laura Bathurst
Regulating emotions and aiming for a Ph.D.: Excerpts from Anthropology Matters
Ingie Hovland
Interview with Les Back on the Online Publication of His Academic Diary
An interview with Les Back, professor of sociology at Goldsmith's College by his colleague in the department, Kate Nash, on the online publication of Academic Diary, his collection of essays reflecting on, often small, incidents in his daily life as an academic in relation to processes of change in higher education in Britain. In a wide-ranging conversation, Les and Kate touch upon the relationship between the form and content of the diary, the changing environment of British academia, the diary as an example of the "sociological imagination" as an attempt to join conversations about what universities are and may become, and the present and future of the university.
Part 1- Form and Content of the Diary