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Ryan, Mary; Carmichael, Mary-Ann – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
In our complex and incongruous professional worlds, where there is no blueprint for dealing with unpredictable people and events, it is imperative that individuals develop reflexive approaches to professional identity building. Notwithstanding the importance of disciplinary knowledge and skills, higher education has a crucial role to play in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Case Studies, Professional Identity, Longitudinal Studies
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Brooke, Mark; Monbec, Laetitia; Tilakaratna, Namala – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
This paper comprises findings from three parallel case studies within the broad framework of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). These provide results from classroom-based action research conducted over two years working with Semantics, Specialisation and axiological cosmologies from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). Each author shares how one or…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Badenhorst, Cecile; Moloney, Cecilia; Rosales, Janna; Dyer, Jennifer; Ru, Lina – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Graduate writing is receiving increasing attention, particularly in contexts of diverse student bodies and widening access to universities. In many of these contexts, writing is seen as "a problem" in need of fixing. Often, the problem and the solution are perceived as being solely located in notions of deficit in individuals and not in…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing (Composition), Case Studies, Masters Programs
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Belluigi, Dina Zoe – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
This paper considers the influences of curricula content on the nuances of teaching and learning practices, and the ways in such influences are complicated by the contexts within which they are situated. Generated data from within the particularity of two fine art schools, one operating from the developed world in the global "north" and…
Descriptors: Fine Arts, Studio Art, Communities of Practice, Developed Nations
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Stewart, Anissa Ryan; Reid, Jacqueline Marie; Stewart, Jeffrey C. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
This study examined discursive choices made by the instructor of a Black Studies course in constructing what counted as blogging and the history of jazz; how students showed evidence of meeting the course requirements, and how particular students engaged with issues of race and diversity in their blogs. The instructor required blogging to enable…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Educational History, Electronic Publishing
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Kapp, Rochelle; Bangeni, Bongi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2009
This paper is drawn from a longitudinal case study in which the authors have tracked the progress of 20 Social Science students over the course of their undergraduate degrees at a historically "white" South African university. The students are all from disadvantaged educational backgrounds and/or speakers of English as a second language.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Social Sciences, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies
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Hughes, Gwyneth – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
It is often assumed that online collaborative learning is inclusive of diversity. In this exploratory paper, I challenge this notion by developing a theory which proposes that inclusion occurs through congruence between learners' social identities and the identities implicitly supported through the interactions in a particular community. To build…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Web Based Instruction, Student Diversity, Diversity (Faculty)