This article, based on narrative inquiry, explores how academics with/out formal leadership positions experience and understand themselves as leaders in their everyday working contexts. A single case of a fixed-term academic was chosen to illustrate how different analytical lenses -- "plot analysis" and "discourse analysis" -- can unpack the…

Despite considerable research on teaching and learning in higher education, the relationship between university teachers' and students' understandings of the same teaching-learning events has not been a focus. This exploratory qualitative study used individual interviews to investigate the role of conceptions of teaching, learning and knowledge in…

Critical thinking is said to be a defining characteristic of a university graduate. In literature on critical thinking, conceptions range from a focus on generic skills to a notion of person as critical being. However, there is little research on university students' experiences of critical thinking. Experiences of undergraduate students, enrolled…