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Grant, Barbara; Barrow, Mark – International Journal for Academic Development, 2013
For 40 years, the "staff teaching seminar" has aimed to prepare academics to meet the complex demands of university teaching. In Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ), as elsewhere, the seminar emerged in the late 1960s-early 1970s, and preceded centrally funded academic development (AD) centres. Targeting new academics, the programme typically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, College Instruction, College Faculty
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Grant, Barbara – International Journal for Academic Development, 2013
Towards the end of his characteristically straightforward account of the landscape of educational development, Graham Gibbs announced: "I am skeptical about the value of the rush to scholasticism". Gibbs goes on to explain that he sees his most influential contribution to university teachers in his "practical manuals and…
Descriptors: Scholarship, College Faculty, Educational Development, Educational Change
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Grant, Barbara; Lee, Alison; Clegg, Sue; Manathunga, Catherine; Barrow, Mark; Kandlbinder, Peter; Brailsford, Ian; Gosling, David; Hicks, Margaret – International Journal for Academic Development, 2009
More than 40 years after its beginnings, academic development stands uncertainly on the threshold of becoming a profession or discipline in its own right. While it remains marginal to the dominant stories of the university, it has become central to the institution's contemporary business. This Research Note describes an enquiry that uses a…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Intellectual Disciplines, Epistemology, Inquiry