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Beard, Colin; Humberstone, Barbara; Clayton, Ben – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
This paper challenges the practical and conceptual understanding of the role of emotions in higher education from the twin perspectives of transition and transformation. Focusing on the neglected area of positive emotions, exploratory data reveal a rich, low-level milieu of undergraduate emotional awareness in students chiefly attributed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Response, Affective Behavior, Positive Attitudes
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MacKenzie, Jane; Bell, Sheena; Bohan, Jason; Brown, Andrea; Burke, Joanne; Cogdell, Barbara; Jamieson, Susan; McAdam, Julie; McKerlie, Robert; Morrow, Lorna; Paschke, Beth; Rea, Paul; Tierney, Anne – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
Increasing numbers of "teaching-only" staff are being appointed in higher education institutions in the UK. At one research-intensive university, a new category of academic staff was recently introduced: University Teachers, who are required to engage in scholarly activity as part of their conditions of employment. For many this…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Capital, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
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Lin, Lin; Cranton, Patricia – Teaching in Higher Education, 2005
The purpose of this paper is to explore the journey of the scholarship student as he or she becomes a responsible scholar. We present three narratives, each one providing a different lens through which we view the journey of the scholarship student. We use transformative learning (as expounded by Mezirow) as a framework to discuss this transition,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Scholarship, Student Motivation, Higher Education