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Lasse X. Jensen; Margaret Bearman; David Boud – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Understanding how students engage with feedback is often reduced to a study of feedback messages that sheds little light on effects. Using the emerging notion of feedback encounters as an analytical lens, this study examines what characterizes productive feedback encounters when learning online. Drawing from a cross-national digital ethnographic…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Nordentoft, Helle Merete; Olesen, Birgitte Ravn – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
Forum theatre is a dialogic method with the potential to bridge the gap between practice-based and academic learning in higher education by enabling postgraduate students to act out and critically reflect on everyday dilemmas. In previous research, little attention is placed on the crucial role of the facilitator and the implications of her…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Reflection, Acting, Theater Arts
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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
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Jeyaraj, Joanna Joseph; Wald, Navé – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
This paper explores barriers to realising the social purposes of higher education within a context of dominant hierarchical socio-cultural norms. Those norms are examined to reveal how they hinder students and teachers from engaging with critical thought and social justice issues in Malaysian higher education. The impact of these norms is examined…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Reflection, Barriers, Critical Thinking
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McCann, Michael – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
The typical approach to student-centred learning in Economics has focused on innovation within the classroom, with little thought given to how this complements teaching and learning and, crucially, assessment. This paper reflects on the implementation of constructive alignment in a final year managerial economics course. It demonstrates how it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alignment (Education), Economics Education, Student Centered Learning
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Power, John B. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
This paper documents the ongoing development of a framework for reflection for undergraduate learners new to the reflective process. Motivated by the gap between students' abilities and experience of reflection and the expectations of them at undergraduate level, the author experimented with a variety of approaches over a number of years. After…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reflection, Journal Writing, Guidelines
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Swanwick, Ruth; Kitchen, Ruth; Jarvis, Joy; McCracken, Wendy; O'Neil, Rachel; Powers, Steve – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
This paper presents a flexible framework of principles for teaching critical thinking and reflective practice skills at the postgraduate level. It reports on a collaborative project between four UK institutions providing postgraduate programmes in deaf education. Through a critical review of current theories of critical thinking and reflective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Critical Thinking, Reflection
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Chen, Joseph C. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
As the USA experiences rapid growth of nontraditional adult students in higher education, educators and institutions will increasingly need to look beyond the traditional youth-centric educational models to better address adult learning needs. To date, no research has been conducted examining the learning experiences of adult students enrolled in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, Adult Learning
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Smith, Elizabeth – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
Despite long-standing commitment to the notion of critical reflection across the healthcare professions it is unusual for critical theory and practice to be taught as explicit subjects in healthcare higher education. There is evidence to show that reflective techniques such as critical portfolios and reflective diaries can help students to…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Social Systems, Diaries, Reflection