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Discerning Student Thinking: A Practical Theoretical Framework for Recognising or Informally Assessing Different Ways of Thinking
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Golding, Clinton – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
We expect our students to learn different ways of thinking, such as historical empathy or scientific reasoning, reflection, critical analysis, or clinical reasoning. But how do we discern if they have learned these ways of thinking when thinking is often abstract, tacit and seemingly invisible? In this conceptual and theoretical article, I argue…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Reflection, Metacognition
Learning through Inquiry: A Global Health Hackathon
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Kienzler, Hanna; Fontanesi, Carolyn – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
This article offers a description and critical evaluation of a novel method for inquiry-based learning (IBL) directed at undergraduate students: a Global Health Hackathon. The hackathon was piloted as part of an "Introduction to Global Health" undergraduate course in order to enable students to gain "and" create knowledge about…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
Students' Reflective Essays as Insights into Student Centred-Pedagogies within the Undergraduate Research Methods Curriculum
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Hosein, Anesa; Rao, Namrata – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
In higher education, despite the emphasis on student-centred pedagogical approaches, undergraduate research methods pedagogy remains surprisingly teacher-directed. Consequently, it may lead to research methods students assuming that becoming a researcher involves gathering information rather than it being a continuous developmental process. To…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Undergraduate Students, Research Methodology, Essays
Exploring Teachers' Inquiry-Based Attitude
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Meijer, Marie-Jeanne; Geijsel, Femke; Kuijpers, Marinka; Boei, Fer; Vrieling, Emmy – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Having a well-founded insight into the characteristics of teachers inquiry-based attitude (IA) supports operationalising IA as a learning goal in teacher education (TE). The aim of this study is to refine the notion of IA from an ill-defined global concept into something with reliable and valid characteristics. To do so, data were gathered on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Inquiry, Cohort Analysis
Supporting Students' Pedagogical Working Life Horizon in Higher Education
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Penttinen, Leena; Skaniakos, Terhi; Lairio, Marjatta – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
In this article, we introduce a model of a pedagogical working life horizon. It encompasses questions posed by individual students concerning their future and incorporates the idea of a working life orientation to the pedagogical possibilities within education. Working life orientation consists of three elements: individual relationship, knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Career Education, Career Guidance
Perception of Democracy in Computer-Mediated Communication: Participation, Responsibility, Collaboration, and Reflection
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Gallego-Arrufat, Maria-Jesus; Gutiérrez-Santiuste, Elba – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
We present a case study to analyze how higher education students attending a Spanish University (N = 100) democratize the virtual classroom by assuming responsibility for their learning and that of the other members of the class; participate actively in social, cognitive, and teaching issues; and collaborate by creating a learning community and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Democracy, Reflection, Case Studies