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Direct linkHarland, Tony – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
Learning about teaching through inquiry is a sound practice for professional development and the university teacher-as-researcher is now commonplace. With the proliferation of inquiry-based postgraduate programmes in university teaching, more academics from across the disciplines are learning new ways of doing research. In this paper, I draw on 10…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Higher Education, Case Studies, Research Methodology
Harland, Tony – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
In this article, I draw mainly on an analysis of my research experiences in science and higher education. My aim is to construct a conceptual argument that will help explain some of the evident complexity of the higher education field and inform future developments. I propose that the study of higher education is an open-access discipline with the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ecology, Science Education, Intellectual Disciplines
Wass, Rob; Harland, Tony; Mercer, Alison – Higher Education Research and Development, 2011
This paper explores student experiences of learning to think critically. Twenty-six zoology undergraduates took part in the study for three years of their degree at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Vygotsky's developmental model of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) provided a framework as we examined how critical thinking was developed.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Textbooks, Zoology, Foreign Countries
