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Nuraan Davids; Yusef Waghid – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Students, through teaching and learning, must reflect on what they do not know. It is only when they recognise what they know, and what they do not, that they will awaken to their own curiosity. The more they can open themselves to others and their epistemologies, the deeper their own self-reflection in relation to others. In this way, engendering…
Descriptors: African Culture, Higher Education, Transformative Learning, Decolonization
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Cole, David R. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Study abroad programs at university are supported as a means to expand university operations beyond the study walls of the institution, and to help students become aware of and cope with the demands of an increasingly interconnected and globalised world. This paper questions the assumptions that underlie the tendencies in contemporary study abroad…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, College Students, Educational Benefits
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Leask, Betty – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
In this essay, I argue that the disruption to 'business as usual' caused by COVID-19 should be embraced as an opportunity to address some of the pernicious and inequitable, albeit unintentional, consequences of existing approaches to internationalization.
Descriptors: International Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Equal Education
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McDowall, Ailie – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
University disciplines are grappling with how best to incorporate Indigenous content and frameworks for practice into their teaching to better prepare graduates to work with Indigenous communities. Yet the pedagogical approaches that can best engage students in Indigenous Studies as a field of critical study are still being debated. This article…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Indigenous Knowledge, Teacher Student Relationship, College Students
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Bullen, Jonathan; Flavell, Helen – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
This paper is drawn from our collective experience coordinating, and teaching in, a large common inter-professional unit on Indigenous cultures and health at an Australian university. Specifically, we use our lived experiences as Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal academics working interculturally to inform a theoretical discussion about how…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Health, Higher Education, College Faculty
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Mowbray, Susan; Halse, Christine – Higher Education Research and Development, 2010
In the past decade there has been a marked push for the development of employability skills to be part of the PhD process. This push is generally by stakeholders from above and outside the PhD process, i.e. government and industry, who view skills as a "summative product" of the PhD. In contrast, our study interviewed stakeholders inside…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Degrees, Outcomes of Education