Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Scholarly Approaches to Teaching

Professor Dan Pratt

The podcasts and vidcasts of Professor Pratt's lecture can be found at Guardian Life of the Caribbean Limited's websitehttp://www.gloc.biz/corporate-social-responsibility/education.html.

Dan Pratt is Professor of Adult & Higher Education in the Department of Educational Studies and the Acting Director of Clinical Educator Fellowships in Medical Education in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Over the past twenty years he has been conducting research on the teaching of adults in different contexts and cultures. He has been a visiting professor at universities within North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia and his research and publications are used in universities around the world.

In 1992 he received the highest award for teaching given by the University of British Columbia – the Killam Teaching Prize. In 1999 his book, Five Perspectives on Teaching in Adult and Higher Education, won the Cyril O. Houle Award for most outstanding literature in adult education and higher education.

He is co-author (with John Collins) of the Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPi), a freely available on-line instrument that has helped more than 60,000 educators from over one hundred countries explore their views of teaching and learning.

More on Dan Pratt and his work can be found at http://www.edst.educ.ubc.ca/pratt.html.

Date: Friday 28th September
Venue: Learning Resource Centre, UWI