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Students as Scholars and the Scholarship of Student Learning
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Navé Wald; Tony Harland – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
We explore the idea that teaching students as "scholars" can change their education within a values discourse that promotes certain personal attributes, including being engaged members of their university and society. The idea partially opposes the dominant neoliberal framing of higher education but is not foreign to normal academic…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scholarship, College Students
High-Impact Educational Practices: Leveling the Playing Field or Perpetuating Inequity?
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Greenman, Sarah J.; Chepp, Valerie; Burton, Samantha – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
While most of the discourse surrounding high-impact educational practices is laudatory, the current manifestation of these practices is not above scrutiny. The benefits of integrating high-impact educational practices into the United States college experience are well-documented, especially for students from groups that have been historically…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Practices, Educational Benefits, Access to Education
" … but We Are Academics!" A Reflection on Using Arts-Based Research Activities with University Colleagues
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Burge, Amy; Godinho, Maria Grade; Knottenbelt, Miesbeth; Loads, Daphne – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Arts-based practices, although familiar in some areas of educational research have the capacity to surprise and to shock: they hold promise but also pose risks. In this essay we introduce arts-based research practices and in particular cut-up and collage. We invite readers to reflect on our experiences of arts-based educational research activities…
Descriptors: Reflection, Research Projects, Educational Research, Educational Practices
Supporting Academic Literacies: University Teachers in Collaboration for Change
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Bergman, Lotta – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
This article deals with an action research project, where a group of university teachers from different disciplines reflected on and gradually extended their knowledge about how to support students' academic literacy development. The project was conducted within a "research circle" [Bergman, L. 2014. "The Research Circle as a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Change Agents, Action Research, Research Projects
Examining the Implications of Learner and Supervisor Perceptions of Undergraduate Dissertation Research in Business and Management
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Malcolm, Mary – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
A concern to ensure that the distinctive quality of teaching and learning in higher education is sustained and recognised has recently reinvigorated debate about the links between research and teaching. Currently, that debate focuses on substantiating research-teaching links and confirming broad frameworks for categorising associated academic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Supervisors, Student Research, Business Administration Education
Feedback Practices and Signature Pedagogies: What Can the Liberal Arts Learn from the Design Critique?
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Schrand, Tom; Eliason, John – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
To examine the differences between feedback practices in liberal arts courses and in design courses, we surveyed 373 students with experiences of both. Our study found that students perceived the feedback they received in design courses as more effective in advancing their learning, and that the emotional effects of feedback presented verbally and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Learning Experience, Liberal Arts, Best Practices