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McCowan, Tristan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
The planetary crisis facing humanity makes essential the incorporation of learning about climate change and sustainability in the university curriculum. Yet the ooting of climate change in values, knowledge systems and societal structures means that this incorporation must be more than just addition of knowledge content into a pre-existing…
Descriptors: Climate, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Epistemology
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Heading, David; Loughlin, Eleanor – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
Threshold concepts are a widely used idea, particularly in curriculum design and evaluation of student learning. However they can be criticised as being hard to identify, vague and teacher imposed. Using the cognitive theory of Bernard Lonergan we argue that his epistemology enables us to reframe threshold concepts by adding a learner focussed…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Learning Processes, Epistemology, Comprehension
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Clarence, Sherran – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Teaching and learning is a growing field of research and practice globally, and increasing investments are being made in developing academics as teachers. An inability to adequately account for disciplinary knowledge can lead to academic development inputs that are unable to fully address the needs of students, educators, or disciplines…
Descriptors: Semantics, Intellectual Disciplines, Teaching Methods, College Faculty
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Barnes, Meghan E.; Caprino, Kathryn – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Reflection is an increasingly essential component of experience-based learning in higher education to encourage students to draw connections between theoretical and practical knowledge and experiences. This qualitative study examines the reflections of undergraduate students in a service-learning course for secondary English teacher candidates.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Reflection, Taxonomy, Experiential Learning
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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
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Chang, Peichin; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
Taking an effective authorial stance in research argumentation has been designated as both vitally important and challenging. The study investigated English as a foreign language (EFL) doctoral students' conceptions of authorial stance, the role of domains in affecting their conceptions, and the ties of the conceptions to the participants'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes