Book Review Introduction to University Teaching by Richard Bale and Mary Seabrook

Abstract

The Postgraduate Pedagogies editorial team were invited to review this new guide to teaching and learning in Higher Education (HE), which is aimed specifically at early career academics, Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs), and postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers. In line with the journal’s aim to offer GTAs a first occasion to publish their reflections on their teaching practice, we saw this too as an excellent opportunity for GTAs to explore the literature around teaching and learning, and to gain experience of academic book reviewing.

We invited interested reviewers to contact us and were delighted that two GTAs with very different backgrounds and experiences expressed their interest in the task. They agreed to write the review as a collaborative ‘conversation piece’, focusing on how the book is relevant to them in their roles as GTAs and how others in their position might also find it of interest.