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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Akerlind, Gerlese S. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
Academics' development as teachers is traditionally considered independently from their development in other aspects of their work, or from their development as an academic holistically. Through the analysis of two previous phenomenographic studies of academics' experiences of: (1) their growth and development as an academic holistically; and (2)…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teaching (Occupation), Phenomenology, Correlation
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Akerlind, Gerlese S. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
Phenomenography is best known as an empirical research approach for investigating variation in conceptions of different educational phenomena--including learning, teaching and particular disciplinary concepts such as price in economics and motion in physics. It is less well-known for its theoretical basis, in terms of its epistemological and…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Epistemology
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Akerlind, Gerlese S. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2004
This paper reports the outcomes of a study, undertaken from a phenomenographic perspective, of academics' ways of experiencing or understanding being a university teacher. A range of understandings was found, representing in particular a varying focus on the experience of teaching as a: teacher transmission focused experience; teacher-student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship