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Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter O; Sarah Glozer; Anica Zeyen – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The responses of higher education (HE) institutions towards the climate crisis and escalating social inequalities have been researched from either 'top-down' (i.e. institutionally-led) or 'bottom-up' (i.e. student-led) perspectives. As scholars call for enhanced insight into the space between these two poles, this paper provides an…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Climate, Doctoral Students, Student Research
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Forsman, Jonas; Linder, Cedric; Moll, Rachel; Fraser, Duncan; Andersson, Staffan – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
Complexity thinking is relatively new to education research and has rarely been used to examine complex issues in physics and engineering education. Issues in higher education such as student retention have been approached from a multiplicity of perspectives and are recognized as complex. The complex system of student retention modelling in higher…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Models, Higher Education, Systems Approach
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Fearon, Colm; Nachmias, Stefanos; McLaughlin, Heather; Jackson, Stephen – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
This study investigates the role of personal values as motivational antecedents for understanding higher education (HE) student career decidedness among university business school (UBS) students. We propose a new "protean"-informed HE student career decidedness model for theorizing how both personal values and social capital mediators…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Career Choice, Higher Education, Focus Groups
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Smit, Brigitte; Williamson, Charmaine; Padayachee, Anshumali – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
The article illustrates how the South Africa-Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD), a doctoral research preparation programme for candidates on the African continent, evolved from an aid programme to an exemplary model of innovation, namely SANTRUST, an ownership-driven partnership within the framework of…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Doctoral Programs, Partnerships in Education, Program Development
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Fox, Steve – Studies in Higher Education, 2005
The article provides an actor-network critique of ideas on community that are influential in higher education and draws implications for networked learning theory and practice. Networked learning is examined as an educational movement which contains alternative models of learning but which offers to create a sense of virtual community within the…
Descriptors: Models, Learning Theories, Higher Education, Criticism