Teaching in Europe: a comparison of university classroom experience in Britain and Germany

Searle, DA

Abstract

Comparing educational experience, culture and academic practice within
Europe can often be an interesting and rewarding exercise. The observations
in this article are based on the author’s experience of six and half years’
teaching at two universities in Bavaria, the completion of a doctorate at the
Free University Berlin, two degrees at the University of Edinburgh (one in
history, the other in social sciences), and, most recently, two years’ teaching
in the Politics and Contemporary History Subject Group at the University of
Salford in the United Kingdom. The aim is to reflect on the experience of
teaching in two different European academic systems, with a view tomaking
some comparisons as well as observations on the changes which have taken
place in the UKh igher education system over the last two decades.

Citation

Searle, D. (2007). Teaching in Europe: a comparison of university classroom experience in Britain and Germany. European Political Science, 6(3), 322-331. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.eps.2210146

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2007
• Deposit Date: Jun 24, 2009
• Journal: European Political Science
• Print ISSN: 1680-4333
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 322-331
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.eps.2210146
• Keywords: Teaching, training, Germany, United Kingdom, habilitation,; educational research, mobility, ERASMUS
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.eps.2210146
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