In this essay, I undertake a philosophical investigation into the nature of "graduateness" based on two distinct ideas on the educational purposes of universities. One draws on European existentialism emphasising how human being is affected and deals with the various challenges of being in the world; the other is grounded in the North…

Recent literature in higher and adult education has identified "authenticity" in teaching as a significant yet under-researched phenomenon lacking a straight-forward definition. By exploring how academic teachers and their students, next to educational theorists and philosophers, understand the notion of authenticity in teaching we offer this…

While research on self-regulated learning has been proliferating over the past decade, also within higher education settings, only very few studies apply the notion of self-regulated learning to teaching. We offer this exploratory study as a contribution to our understanding of the role of self-regulated learning in university instructors' growth…

Discusses why experiential learning is often implemented incompletely in higher education and asserts that the case study approach is an effective way to involve students in all four phases of Kolb's experiential learning cycle. Drawing on previous studies, proposes that experiential learning fosters higher-level learning, such as critical…

A repertory grid based on personal construct theory was administered to 58 teaching award winners at Canadian universities with the goal of identifying their implicit conceptualizations of academic work. Individual grids were aggregated to form a consensus grid that examined the relationship between the processes and products of academic work and…

Assessed the outcomes of a university course on learning to teach in higher education based on a model of teaching-scholarship. Found that after completing the course, participants' thinking about teaching demonstrated greater integration of various aspects of teaching-scholarship. (EV)