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Wang, Chenyu – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2021
Using the autoethnographic case study method, this article examines how my positionality as a foreign-born faculty member intersects with the institutional rhetoric of diversity and inclusion present in many predominantly White institutions. My vignettes show that foreign-born faculty, although contributing to the representation of diversity…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Case Studies, Ethnography, Vignettes
Dixit, Priya – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2021
This article examines (im)obility in the global visa regime through the experiences of a Global South academic working in the Global North. Drawing on an autoethnographic account of a visa application, this article outlines the ways in which the global visa regime negatively affects a Global South academic's life. Visa regulations constitute a…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Public Policy, College Faculty, Ethnography
Beuving, Joost; de Vries, Geert – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2020
This article discusses how the teaching of qualitative research in higher education is threatened by the effects of new public management, by academic culture wars and by a growing belief in big data. The controversy over Alice Goffman's book "On the Run" presents one recent example of this. In an effort to counterbalance these…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Qualitative Research, Higher Education, Social Science Research
Stewart, Saran; Haynes, Chayla; Deal, Kristin – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2020
This article explores how three doctoral candidates enrolled in the discipline of Higher Education gained an understanding of social justice, equity-mindedness and diversity in the academy. Prior to the admission of these three students, two faculty members had reformed the doctoral programme to align it with the principles of inclusive pedagogy.…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Higher Education, Social Justice, Equal Education
Bönisch-Brednich, Brigitte – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2018
This article examines what it means to be an academic in the knowledge economy, using auto-ethnographic writing or storytelling as its starting point. Although academic mobility has been researched for about a decade, deep listening and deep reading in the context of ethnography have not been utilised in analysing what it means to move in this…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Academic Discourse, Ethnography, Story Telling
Baker, Sally; Stirling, Eve – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2016
As technological developments accelerate, and neoliberal ideologies shift the ways that universities "do business," higher education is facing radical changes. Within this context, students' need to 'succeed' at university is more important than ever. Consequently, understanding students' transitions within this shifting higher education…
Descriptors: Social Media, Higher Education, Technological Advancement, Ethnography
Vonderau, Asta – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2015
Drawing upon ethnographic data, this article investigates the effects of a new online campus management system in one of the largest universities in Germany. It shows the various ways in which this technological innovation influenced students', teachers' and administrative personnel's relations and everyday working practices and how it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Management Systems, Integrated Learning Systems
Mifsud, Dione – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2015
This article explores the decision by two universities, the University of Malta and the University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A., to create a dual master's degree in transcultural counselling. The difficulties encountered by the two universities in creating a harmonised system encompassing tuition, assessment, accreditation and regulatory…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Masters Degrees, International Programs, Intercollegiate Cooperation
Trahar, Sheila – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2015
Transnational higher education is the term that is most commonly used to describe programmes that allow students to obtain a degree from an overseas university in their local context. Such programmes are often marketed on their similarity with those offered at home by the overseas university. Perhaps as a consequence, the related literature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, International Educational Exchange, Delivery Systems
Hose, Linda; Ford, E. J. – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2014
Based on personal experiences garnered through years of adjunct instruction, the authors explore the challenges associated with working in academia without the guarantees of a long-term contract or tenure. Further, adjuncts are desperate to accept any position that is remunerative and this willingness undermines contract negotiation leverage of…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Ethnography, Neoliberalism, Commercialization
Long, David E. – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2014
In an ethnographic study set within a biology department of a public university in the United States, incongruity between the ideals and practice of science education are investigated. Against the background of religious conservative students' complaints about evolution in the curriculum, biology faculty describe their political intents for…
Descriptors: Biology, Departments, Science Careers, Ethnography
Beyond Pedagogy: Community Feeling, Educational Development and Power in a U.S. Liberal Arts College
Willett, Gudrun – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2013
In a three-year ethnographic study of a selective U.S. liberal arts college, it was found that educational development efforts contributed not only to changes in teaching but also to cross-college collaboration and the development of a sense of community. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the college created a learning centre and new educational…
Descriptors: Colleges, Liberal Arts, Ethnography, Educational Development
Somerville, Siobhan B. – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2013
This article offers a first-person account of the author's experience teaching an undergraduate course on local queer culture, using her own campus as the site for primary research. The course asks how students might understand the role of Midwestern public universities in the production of queer culture. And how might such knowledge revise…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Universities, Ethnography, Archives
Kwon, Soo Ah – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2013
Drawing on existing literature and student ethnographic projects, this article examines Asian American undergraduates' overwhelming focus on individual racial identity and practices of racial segregation in their ethnographic research about the University of Illinois. The author examines how such racial segregation is described and analysed as a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Racial Segregation
Ramos, Teresa – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2013
The Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI) joins a long history of critique, challenge and transformation of higher education. EUI courses are an important site for the creation of non-traditional narratives in which students challenge "business-as-usual" in higher education. For under-represented students, this includes inquiry…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Ethnography, Higher Education
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