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Carmen Elena Jijón de la Torre – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
This article presents the artistic process employed by a group of young women in an academic setting at the Central University of Ecuador, as they wrote four documentary plays. These students, belonging to the first generation to have access to a dramaturgy class in a public university in the country, utilized an innovative to develop their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Females, Drama
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Bjørn Stensaker; Jens Jungblut; Georgiana Mihut – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Numerous universities throughout the world have established top-level advisory boards -- informal bodies and councils that the institutional leadership may consult on issues perceived as important. Through a series of qualitative interviews with members of such entities as well as representatives of the institutions appointing them, the article…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College Administration, Governance, Universities
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Naja Morell Hjortshøj – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2025
This article examines how the mandatory subjects of innovation and entrepreneurship are taught in Chinese universities and how they are taken up by learners. Innovation and entrepreneurship education are part of the policy to promote 'Quality Education' through more experiential learning aimed to foster independent, creative and well-rounded…
Descriptors: Universities, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods
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Daniel Weston – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
This article explores how candidates discuss cultural topics that overlap with their sociocultural background during the Cambridge undergraduate admissions interviews, an academic gatekeeping encounter. On the one hand, discussion of this kind can be a source of epistemic authority for these candidates. On the other hand, such an affordance does…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Admission, Interviews, Sociocultural Patterns
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Yvonne Earnshaw; Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif – Online Learning, 2025
This study used critical discourse analysis to examine how contingent faculty teaching in online programs talk about the support they need through the lens of organizational socialization theory. We interviewed 10 online contingent faculty across the United States from a variety of Carnegie-classified institutions using semi-structured interview…
Descriptors: Online Courses, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Anita Louise Wheeldon; Stephen Jonathan Whitty; Bronte van der Hoorn – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025
This study examines the historical role preparation experiences of professional staff and academics in a managerialised university field. Semi-structured interviews were used to identify the impact of these experiences on the individual's ability to 'play the game' of the managerialised university field. The Bourdieusian concepts of habitus, doxa…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Personnel, College Faculty, Experience
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Keri L. Carter; John L. Carter – Writing Center Journal, 2025
The position of writing center assistant director resides in the middle of the often blurry lines of hierarchy. While many writing centers advocate for team leadership, the fact remains that universities are steeped in bureaucratic tradition familiar to university leaders, students, and tutors. Assistant directors accomplish tasks that keep the…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Administrators, Power Structure
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Kun Wang; Calvin King Lam Chung; Jiang Xu; Alan Chi Keung Cheung – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Emerging studies on university stratification have often attributed the developmental gaps between universities to the popularization of new public management in contexts where market mechanisms prevail in higher education governance. However, less attention has been paid to how state powers continue to mediate university stratification alongside…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Power Structure, Administrative Organization
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Leonard Taylor – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
The fullness of Black students' experiences in college has yet to be archived. The same can be said of Black people broadly, whose existence has long been reduced by and to what is observable, by systems of power and those at the helm. This is perhaps due to the structural and structural limitations of data collection efforts, or not of interest…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Power Structure, Success
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Mark Birtles – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
This study explores the production, dissemination, and reception of the discourse of educational excellence and internationalisation in Japan's Designated National University Corporation System. The study frames the policy initiative within the longstanding goals of the Japanese government and demonstrates how the work of Michel Foucault helps…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Power Structure, Global Approach
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F. Melis Cin; Markus Roos Breines; Parvati Raghuram; Ashley Gunter – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
This paper explores the concept of homeplace, examining how it serves as a nexus for learning, reproductive labour, and internationalisation while problematising the gendered and depoliticised nature of international distance education. Drawing on 60 interviews with international distance students at a South African university, the research…
Descriptors: Feminism, Global Approach, Distance Education, Gender Issues
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Natchee Blu Barnd – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2025
In this essay, I argue that Ethnic Studies-based approaches to racism and colonialism can improve student learning during study abroad. These approaches can further extend learning impact beyond that of diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. I outline how every host site can support attention to race and colonialism, explain the dangers of…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Study Abroad, Racism, Colonialism
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Aylin Kirisci-Sarikaya; Halim Guner – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
With the global increase in refugees, understanding and improving the educational experiences of refugees has received more attention in academic research. This study aims to investigate the perspective of preservice teachers (PSTs) towards Syrian refugees, who are one of the largest groups of refugees in Turkey. The study explores the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Preservice Teachers, Social Bias
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Toy, Hakki – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
It can be said that there is a large literature on the metamorphosis in the direction of marketization brought about by capitalist globalization in the academic field. In the aforementioned literature, it is stated that the academy operates more and more with the rules of the capitalist market and therefore academic study, education and training…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Self Concept, Ideology, Power Structure
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Robinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
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