Sustainable Practices in research-integrated education in HE: Towards an accepted development pedagogy

Abstract

Teaching ever so diverse cohorts of students requires educators to keep abreast of their professional learning and to acquire an open mindset towards their practice. With HE policy placing growing emphasis on teaching excellence, questions arise about how to measure teaching quality and about whether or not educators from across the board of disciplines are supported in doing so. How can lecturers devise evidence-based, valid and reliable measures for evaluating the quality of their teaching? The following piece conceptualises the relationship between education research and teaching practice through discussing their sustainable integration. The overarching aim of this study is to discuss the potential for action research to help educators to measure the quality of their teaching to improve students' outcomes and moving from this, to gauge how sustainable such practices can be in a fast-paced HE sector.