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Timmermans, Julie A.; Bruni, Carmen; Gorbet, Rob; Moffatt, Barbara; Stubley, Gordon; Williams, Diane; Holmes, Trevor – International Journal for Academic Development, 2018
In a multidisciplinary Faculty Learning Community focussed on exploring threshold concepts and bottlenecks in learning, care emerged as an unanticipated dimension to our work, transforming the ways we view teaching, learning, our disciplines, and educational development. In this piece, we reflect on the types of care that emerged and consider…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Development, Communities of Practice
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Holmes, Trevor; Dea, Shannon – International Journal for Academic Development, 2012
This article presents a humanistic dialogue between the authors that focuses on mapping place and identity in academic development. The authors chose this format in order to capture some of the important work that conversation among intellectual peers can do--work that forms the basis of much learning at conferences and in the corridors and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Discourse, Humanism, Self Concept
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Holmes, Trevor; Manathunga, Catherine; Potter, Michael K.; Wuetherick, Brad – International Journal for Academic Development, 2012
This paper responds to the occasionally stated imperative in some contexts to be neutral as part of being an academic development unit (ADU). For over a decade at separate professional meetings of developers, two of the authors have heard the refrain that they need to be--or at least be perceived to be--"the Switzerland" of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Science, Anthropology, Confidentiality