Includes bibliographical references and index.

<p><b> </b>Introduction <b>PART ONE: BECOMING A LEARNING DEVELOPER: IDEAS AND IDENTITY 1 Theory in LD</b> 1 We are All Players 2 Conceptual Foundations in Learning Development 3 The Mess We’re in: LD Pedagogies and the Question of Student Agency 4 The Development of Expertise and Identity within a Community of Practice: A Networking Model 5 Hybrid Learning Developers: Between the Discipline and the Third Space <b>PART 2: BEING A LEARNING DEVELOPER: PRAXIS</b> 6 A Day in the Life: What the Learning Developer Does 7 Diversity in our Expertise: Empowering Neurodivergent Students within Learning Development 8 Teaching Writing in LD 9 Empowering and Enabling: Leveraging Technology for a Student-Centred Future 10 Transformative Social Learning Spaces 11 The View From Over Here: What the students think about Learning Development <b>PART THREE: REFLECTING IN LEARNING DEVELOPMENT: CULTIVATING CRITICALITY</b> 12 Critical Self-Reflection in Learning Development 13 Practice vs Policy: Learning Development’s Role in Supporting, Developing, and Challenging Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Higher Education Sector 14 Closing the Gap: Learning Development and Race 15 Decolonisation in Learning Development 16 Learning Development In, Against, and Beyond the Neoliberal University: Critical Learning Development and Critical Academic Literacies <b>PART FOUR: MAKING KNOWLEDGE: LEARNING DEVELOPERS AS RESEARCHERS</b> 17 Research and Scholarship in Learning Development 18 Methodologies for Research in Learning Development 19 Learning Developers as Writers: The Four Tendencies Framework to Get Writing 20 Publishing in Learning Development: A Primer for New(ish) Authors <b>PART FIVE: BECOMING ESTABLISHED IN LEARNING DEVELOPMENT: THE POTENTIAL IN AND FOR LD </b>21 Succeeding at Learning Development, Sonia Hood 22 The Impact of Learning Development 23 Leadership in Learning Development: A Networked Approach 24 Professional Development and Recognition in LD 25 Raising the Profile of Learning Development in Higher Education: Institutional and Sector Perspectives 26 The Future of Learning Development: Two Visions. Opening.</p>

Filled with practical guidance for those working in and interested in the emergent field of Learning Development, this must-read book encapsulates what it means to be a Learning Developer.