Teachers’ Emotions in a Mandated Curriculum Reform: A Chinese Perspective

Abstract

This book examines current trends in higher education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. It introduces readers to pedagogical strategies that instruc- tors worldwide are using to overcome some of the challenges they face in higher education. To maximize their students’ learning, this book argues that institutions are compelled to innovate their policies and instructors must be collaborative and creative in their practices in response to students’ growing demands and needs, challenges to their learning, and the shifting terrain of a rapidly globalizing world. The text explores the idiosyncrasies and challenges that drive innovation across par- ticular cultures, disciplines and institutions. It suggests that the responses to these drivers offer some universal and compatible lessons that not only optimize teaching and learning, but also transgress institutional, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries in higher education.