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Little, Deandra; Green, David A.; Hoption, Colette – International Journal for Academic Development, 2018
Can research on disciplinary socialization and imprinting help us understand the extent to which educational developers bring aspects of their disciplinary training to their educational development research? In this paper, we explore the relationship between the research approaches developers associate with their original disciplinary training and…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Socialization, Educational Research, Research Methodology
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Green, David A.; Little, Deandra – International Journal for Academic Development, 2016
Educational development (also called academic or faculty development) has been described as fragmented, disconnected, and a "family of strangers," due mostly to the different academic backgrounds of its members. In this paper, the authors report on a survey of over 1000 educational developers from 38 countries on six continents. To help…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Profiles, Comparative Education, Demography
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Little, Deandra; Green, David A. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2012
Previously, the authors developed a theoretical framework drawing on an early sociological study of migration to explore how marginality--being between cultures--might account for academic developers' "hybrid" academic identities and help them navigate institutional power dynamics. Based on data from semi-structured interviews, this…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Change, Semi Structured Interviews, Cross Cultural Studies
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Green, David A. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2010
Language can provide an entree into an academic discipline, but can also serve as a barrier to exclude newcomers. How does this apply to academic developers trying to promote teaching and learning on their campuses? Using an online survey, academics at two institutions in the UK and USA were asked to describe their typical and ideal reading in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disciplines, Academic Discourse, Jargon
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Green, David A. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2009
Seventy-seven new academics--59 at a large, public university in the UK and 18 at a medium-sized, private comprehensive university in the USA--were asked to read an extract of an article on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and mark the text according to categories of difficulty or dislike. Analysis of the data revealed six main…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Figurative Language, Literary Styles, College Faculty