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le Roux, Kate; Taylor, Dale L.; Kloot, Bruce; Allie, Saalih – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
This paper offers a perspective on the relationship between communities that conduct research on teaching and learning in higher education, focusing on Higher Education Studies (HES) and science Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER). The paper responds to HES debates about the strength of its epistemological base and who belongs to that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines
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Friedrich, Philipp E.; Prøitz, Tine S.; Stensaker, Bjørn – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Qualification frameworks are spreading rapidly, not least in Europe following the introduction of the European Qualification Framework. The impact of such frameworks are contested, and the article contributes to this debate by analyzing how a selected group of different study programs in Norwegian higher education is adapting to the newly launched…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Models, Outcomes of Education
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Buyl, Ernst – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
As an emerging field within higher education, academic development remains fragmented, both as a field of theory and practice. In the vibrant, on-going debate about the theoretical foundations and directions of academic development as a nascent field, some relatively wide-ranging claims which have been made seem to be lacking in supporting…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Epistemology, Educational Development, Semi Structured Interviews
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Millar, Victoria – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
In response to the current demands and trends within education, the disciplines as one of the core long-standing organizing structures within knowledge production and transmission are questioning and shifting what and how they teach. Universities are increasingly offering interdisciplinary subjects and programmes as an alternative to or alongside…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Mckendry, Stephanie; McKay, Gayle; Boyd, Vic; Andrew, Nicola – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
Nursing and the construction industry arguably enjoy uneasy membership of the academy. As both move closer towards university-based learning, debates remain about where discipline-specific training should best be provided and the importance of softer, graduate skills for the professions. This paper contextualises that debate by describing both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Nursing, Intellectual Disciplines
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McLean, Monica; Barker, Hannah – Teaching in Higher Education, 2004
The paper draws on an extensive literature search about the 'research-teaching nexus', insights from interviewing twelve university history lecturers about student progress in undergraduate degrees, and ideas about the role of disciplines in student learning to argue (i) that the educational goal for students of 'becoming a practising historian'…
Descriptors: College Faculty, History, Educational Objectives, Teacher Attitudes