For this activity it is suggested that you use the supplied 253 Ideas for your Teaching or identify a journal (or failing that a book) that addresses teaching and learning or educational issues within your own disciplinary area or your field of academic or professional interest.

If a journal, take a recent, representative sample of what it publishes - perhaps a complete year's Issues from within the last five years. [If no journal is available in your precise field, try to locate one in a reasonably similar or related field. Failing that, try the library catalogue for any text whatever that deals with teaching and learning in your area. Failing that, look through some recent years of the HERDSA publications: the journal (Higher Education Research and Development) and the annual conference proceedings (Research and Development in Higher Education); scan the contents pages and try to locate any articles at all that refer to teaching or learning within your area or an area close to it.]

Your goal is to locate and critically read a few papers or chapters or sections that appear, from their titles, to be likely to address, recommend, critique or evaluate, some method of teaching - or that take a particular method merely "for granted" without questioning its justifications.

Summarise what position the respective authors appear to take about teaching methods. Then make notes of your own in the form of the draft for a critical response to these articles, from a student learning perspective.