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Nokukhanya Ndlovu; Nosipho Mbatha; Vusi Msiza – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Academic development is a mammoth undertaking that requires collective effort from all stakeholders, extending beyond academic developers alone. As early career academics, we explore our experiences of academic development within our community of practice. Through a collaborative self-study, we reveal how our community of practice has bolstered…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Beginning Teachers, Communities of Practice, College Faculty
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Nicholas Munro; Heidi Matisonn; Nisha Nadesan-Reddy; Fatima Suleman; Douglas Wassenaar; Suvira Ramlall; Mosa Moshabela; Petra Brysiewicz – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Mentoring (healthcare) research from low-to-middle-income countries is critical for developing evidence-based healthcare solutions. This paper presents findings from a study of the mentoring and supervisory relationships embedded in a South African fellowship program for early career healthcare researchers. The findings demonstrate how, rather…
Descriptors: Novices, Faculty, Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Ndlovu, Nokukhanya; Msiza, Vusi; Mbatha, Nosipho – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
Early career academics (ECAs) face multiple academic challenges as many assume their duties with little or no experience of the work employed. Formal organizational structures within the university space may set programs to assimilate and assert them into their responsibilities gradually. However, where do ECAs retreat to when the hierarchical and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Faculty Development, Dialogs (Language), Foreign Countries
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Gachago, Daniela; Cruz, Laura; Belford, Cheryl; Livingston, Candice; Morkel, Jolanda; Patnaik, Sweta; Swartz, Bronwyn – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
Research on communities of practice suggests that such groups can be used to support academic staff development, especially during times of crisis. We explore how a group of South African women academics and 'eLearning champions' engaged in a mobile community of practice under COVID-19 conditions. Our analysis of WhatsApp chat histories and focus…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, COVID-19, Pandemics, Computer Mediated Communication
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Stoltenkamp, Juliet; van de Heyde, Valentino; Siebrits, AndrĂ© – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
A Science Teaching Assistant (TA) Programme, at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), focused on preparing promising lecturers. A key component of this programme was the contribution by the Centre for Innovative Education and Communication Technologies (CIECT), which promoted the pedagogical adoption of eTools to assist development of Science…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Reflection, Teaching Assistants, Science Instruction
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Quinn, Lynn; Behari-Leak, Kasturi; Ganas, Rieta; Olsen, Anne-Mart; Vorster, Jo-Anne – International Journal for Academic Development, 2019
Using participatory research strategies we critically reflect on how, in a formal course for academic developers, feedback supports the induction of participants into the field. We investigated how feedback processes contribute to participants' explorations of new ways of knowing, being, and acting as academic developers in their contexts. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Epistemology, Student Evaluation
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Behari-Leak, Kasturi; Mokou, Goitsione – International Journal for Academic Development, 2019
New voices emerging in the global South are contesting the academy's elitist and exclusionary ethos by disrupting the normalcy of coloniality. Concerns raised by the student protests of 2015 and 2016 have challenged the higher education sector to rethink its traditional teaching, learning, and assessment practices in response to student calls for…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Equal Education
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van Schalkwyk, Susan; Cilliers, Francois; Adendorff, Hanelie; Cattell, Karin; Herman, Nicoline – International Journal for Academic Development, 2013
This article foregrounds the iterative journey of a group of educational development (ED) practitioners at a research-led university towards an enhanced understanding of the ED opportunities we offer. Reflecting on the intention of our interventions to facilitate academics' professional learning, we developed a framework within which the range of…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Professional Development, Intervention, Foreign Countries
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Leibowitz, Brenda; Cilliers, Francois; du Plessis, Jacob; Kafaar, Zuhayr; Van der Merwe, Antoinette; Viljoen, Shaun; Young, Gert – International Journal for Academic Development, 2011
This study reports on a collaborative teaching enhancement project at a research-led university, within the context of a focus on the first-year experience. It demonstrates the kind of influence which a combination of managerial and collegial approaches can have on the collaboration. It illustrates the importance of working with a conscious…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Change, Cultural Influences, Team Teaching
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Cilliers, Francois J.; Herman, Nicoline – International Journal for Academic Development, 2010
Evidence of the impact of educational development (ED) programmes on faculty is often not gathered beyond ascertaining the immediate reactions of participants. This paper reports the results of a study to determine what level of impact an ED programme at a university has had on academics' teaching practice over time. Kirkpatrick's framework…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Interviews, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
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Clifford, Valerie Anne – International Journal for Academic Development, 2009
The claim by universities to be "international" has spread world-wide over the last two decades and this has been largely interpreted to mean the recruitment and support of international students. Little attention has been paid to what this means for curriculum development. This study was carried out to explore disciplinary…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Intellectual Disciplines, Foreign Countries, Transcripts (Written Records)