ABSTRACT
This is a book about teachers. It is about teachers who typically think of themselves as something more or something different, as academics or lecturers, as engineers, nurses, geographers, personnel managers, chemists, designers, philosophers or chefs. They teach and deliver courses (or parts of courses) that may be full-time or part-time, distance or attendance, virtual, credit based, modular, work or classroom based. These courses may be professional and interdisciplinary; they may be academic. The staff are based in colleges and universities but may teach also in prisons or in the workplace. They may be teaching in teams or quite independently of others. They may be teaching small groups of students or individual students in tutorials; they may be teaching groups of several hundred. They teach basic skills, such as literacy or numeracy; they also teach doctoral students.
