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Andrea Vaughans; Jobila Sy – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
This chapter describes the implementation and impact of a remediation program in the health sciences. Lessons learned are explored based on common academic difficulties students experience in remediation programs with an emphasis on self-regulated learning outcomes.
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Health Sciences, Self Management, Independent Study
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Sarah Schiffecker; Joanna Abdallah – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This duoethnographical study explores the experiences of the two authors, Joanna and Sarah, as international students in the United States that do not quite fully fit in any of the categories described in research literature. Using a Borderland theoretical approach, the authors explore the in-between spaces at the intersections of their identities…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Self Concept, Ethnography, Study Abroad
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Merita Berisha; Laura Cruz; Amina Kaja – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
This article presents a case study of the integration of the scholarship of teaching and learning at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Prishtina in Kosovo. We discuss the challenges and opportunities inherent in bringing together a specific cultural, economic, and political context with the beliefs and practices of SoTL in the health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Medical Schools, Educational Improvement
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Michaela M. Dengg – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This scholarly personal narrative offers insight into the everyday lived experience of a white international student from Germany living and studying in the United States. In this narrative, she explores her life between discrimination in the form of anti-German sentiment and white privilege. The narrative focuses on discrimination from a systemic…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Personal Narratives, White Students, Educational Experience
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Milad Mohebali; Elmira Jangjou – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This critical duoethnography takes silence in classroom discussions as a sociocultural artifact that reveals the norms of the society that upholds it. In this research, we made visible and explored the content of silence we experienced as international graduate students. We found that repeated patterns of silence in classroom discussions acted to…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Classroom Communication
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Kriti Gopal – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This contribution focuses on the experience of an emerging scholar practitioner within higher education who also identifies as an Indian international doctoral student. By using a scholarly personal narrative, the author has described their life experiences and negotiations as a part of their study abroad journey from India to the United States.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Indians, Student Attitudes, Foreign Students
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Xiao Yun Sim; Yuan Zhou – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This study examined lived experiences of two international student affairs professionals in the United States. Through a series of interviews, the dialogues unfold rich narratives that explore the multifaceted journey from academic preparation to career placement in the field of higher education student affairs (HESA). It also underscores the…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Student Attitudes, Personal Narratives
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Melissa Miner; Brandi Peachey; Michael Evans; Raymonde Brown – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
This chapter uses a descriptive methodology that focuses on how the undergraduate team at a large multi-campus research university located in a mid-Atlantic state advocates and provides support for the scholarship of teaching and learning for non-tenure nursing teaching faculty from a variety of perspectives.
Descriptors: Nontenured Faculty, Undergraduate Study, Nursing Education, Teacher Attitudes