Cultural oppositions or creative tensions?  A study of the preceptions of overseas colleagues of teaching and learning in British Higher Education.

R Bhanot and Glynis Cousins

Coventry University

This paper reports research into learning approaches of overseas colleagues enrolled on Coventry University's Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.  Evidence will be presented on culturally diverse responses towards the 'professionalisation' of teaching in higher education.  Discussion will centre on the potential dangers of Anglo-centricity in teacher development programmes and ways in which a sensitivity to diversity may need to be incorporated therein.