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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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Malcolm, Mary – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
A concern to ensure that the distinctive quality of teaching and learning in higher education is sustained and recognised has recently reinvigorated debate about the links between research and teaching. Currently, that debate focuses on substantiating research-teaching links and confirming broad frameworks for categorising associated academic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Supervisors, Student Research, Business Administration Education
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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
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Harland, Tony; Spronken-Smith, Rachel A.; Dickinson, Katharine J. M.; Pickering, Neil – Teaching in Higher Education, 2006
This article aims to stimulate debate about the nature of field courses in higher education. We use a colloquium format that allows each of us to reflect on the philosophy of field course teaching and our writing endeavours to establish a dialogue between the authors and leave the reader with a sense of curiosity. It starts with a position paper…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Higher Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Baderin, Mashood A. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2005
As part of continual efforts towards improving learning and teaching in the faculty, lecturers in the law faculty of the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol debated the question of students' attendance and quality of tutorials in a recent email discussion amongst themselves. At the end of the debate the need for further research on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes
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Barrington, Ernie – Teaching in Higher Education, 2004
Although Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligence was conceived in the 1980s and has been put into practice by some primary and secondary schools, it has received scant attention in higher education, apart from debates on whether or not the theory can be applied to students in tertiary education. In this paper, I want to ask why this is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Diversity, Learning Strategies, Multiple Intelligences