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Scager, Karin; Akkerman, Sanne F.; Pilot, Albert; Wubbels, Theo – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
Students need to be challenged to stimulate their learning. Applying challenge in practice however is not straightforward. Challenging students may conflict with other teacher responsibilities, creating potential dilemmas for teachers. This study discloses dilemmas teachers encounter when challenging students as well as the considerations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, Higher Education
Neve, Hilary; Lloyd, Helen; Collett, Tracey – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
Professionalism is a core element of curricula in many disciplines but can be difficult to teach and learn. This study used audio-diary methodology to identify professionalism threshold concepts in a small group learning setting in undergraduate medicine and to understand factors that might facilitate students to "get" such concepts.…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Professional Identity, Diaries, Student Experience
Solbrekke, Tone Dyrdal; Helstad, Kristin – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Teaching in higher education encompasses more than merely helping students develop knowledge and skills. It entails engaging students in their own formation as persons, professionals and citizens. From this perspective, this article investigates how approaches to teaching academic writing contribute to formation. By analysing a case from initial…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Development, Academic Discourse, Preservice Teacher Education
Collins, Bethan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Supervision is an essential part of doctoral study, consisting of relationship and process aspects, underpinned by a range of values. To date there has been limited research specifically about disabled doctoral students' experiences of supervision. This paper draws on qualitative, narrative interviews about doctoral supervision with disabled…
Descriptors: Reflection, Doctoral Programs, Supervision, Special Needs Students
McAlpine, Lynn – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
While achieving research independence by becoming a principal investigator (PI) is a key aspiration for many postdocs, little is known of the trajectory from PhD graduation to first PI grant. This interview-based study examined how 16 PIs in science, technology engineering, mathematics or medicine, in the UK and continental Europe, prepared for…
Descriptors: Researchers, Graduates, Interviews, STEM Education
Aitchison, Claire; Mowbray, Susan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
This paper explores the experiences of women doctoral students and the role of emotion during doctoral candidature. The paper draws on the concept of emotional labour to examine the two sites of emotional investment students experienced and managed during their studies: writing and family relationships. Emotion is perceived by many dominant…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Womens Education, Females, Graduate Students
Holmén, Magnus; Ljungberg, Daniel – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
In this paper, we investigate the perception of academics regarding how their experiences from societal interaction (third mission) inform their teaching and vice versa. We report on a phone survey of Swedish academics in three engineering-related disciplines. The findings show that there is a perceived positive and bidirectional relationship…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Investigations, Teacher Attitudes, Social Cognition
Storrie, Kim; Ahern, Kathy; Tuckett, Anthony – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
There is evidence that the number of university students with mental health problems has increased over the past few years. The literature also suggests that the number and effect of troubled health science students create significant problems in the clinical practicum. However, there are gaps in the literature as to how clinical teachers actually…
Descriptors: Practicums, Emotional Problems, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Naude, Luzelle; Bezuidenhout, Hannemarie – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
The focus of this article is on the experiences of staff members involved in a student support programme. The experiential, social, and student-centred approaches incorporated in this programme provided not only students, but also academics with pathways to lifelong learning. Functioning in a community of practice (CoP) (with students and also…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Academic Support Services, Experiential Learning, Student Centered Curriculum
Naidoo, Devika – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Against the background of vast changes in doctoral education and the emergence of non-traditional doctoral programmes, this paper investigates the habitus of non-traditional PhD students at a South African university. Bourdieu's conceptual tool of habitus informed the study. In-depth and open-ended interviews were conducted with 10 non-traditional…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Graduate Students, Interviews, Social Capital
Lee, Cynthia – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
This paper reports on some factors that influence a student's choice, perception and motivation to use computer technology for a speaking and a writing consultation service, based on interviews and student-teacher online discourse patterns. It also discusses the motivation behind the choices with reference to Deci and Ryan's self-determination…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Computers, Psychological Needs, Student Attitudes
Akerlind, Gerlese S. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
Academics' development as teachers is traditionally considered independently from their development in other aspects of their work, or from their development as an academic holistically. Through the analysis of two previous phenomenographic studies of academics' experiences of: (1) their growth and development as an academic holistically; and (2)…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teaching (Occupation), Phenomenology, Correlation
Wang, Yi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
Built from data collected through three-phase in-depth interviews, this study explores from cultural and social perspectives why Chinese students may initially be termed silent participants when they first commence group work with western students; and then examines the impact of cultural interaction through group work on their adjustment.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Learning Experience, Interviews
Hurlock, Debb; Barlow, Constance; Phelan, Anne; Myrick, Florence; Sawa, Russell; Rogers, Gayla – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
This article is situated within an experience of conflict for Tina, a social work student, who is caught between her beliefs about the virtues of social work practice, and her disillusioning encounter with the school's administration. In this paper, we interpret Tina's experience of conflict by drawing on the central concepts of liminality and…
Descriptors: Conflict, Student College Relationship, Social Work, Professional Education
McDowell, Liz – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
Existing research identifies that students' approaches to assignments are related to their general approaches to study. It is suggested that students need to better understand the requirements of assignments and acquire new concepts such as "argument". This fine-grained study proposes four qualitatively distinct assignment pathways: gathering,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Theory Practice Relationship, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
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