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This module extends further your development as a skilled, reflective practitioner in teaching and/or supporting learning in higher education, in alignment with the United Kingdom Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF). It supports your ongoing practice and development as a pedagogical scholar and education communicator. The module explores what it means to engage with and contribute to pedagogical scholarship and introduces you to the breadth of methodologies available to you as a practice-based educational researcher.

You will also explore and critically engage with a range of key topics, including (but not limited to), a) the broader, global contexts in which higher education operates including internationalisation of HE, b) equality, diversity and inclusion, c) widening participation, d) ethical teaching, e) student wellbeing and belonging, f) scholarship of teaching and learning, g) the key debates, initiatives and policies influencing learning and teaching, and h) the value of peer observation of teaching practice. Additionally, you will be introduced to other topics as introduced by your peers through their scholarship work.

1. Critically engage in an investigation into your own teaching practice identifying appropriate areas of enquiry.
2. Demonstrate extensive, detailed knowledge and understanding of and critical engagement with pedagogical scholarship relevant to your own practice.
3. Exemplify critical knowledge and understanding of the contexts HE is situated within and key debates.
4. Engage collaboratively in, and critically reflect on, the process of reciprocal peer observation of practice.
5. Align your practice to relevant dimensions for UKPSF descriptor 2.