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Pauleen, David J.; Intezari, Ali – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2023
The success of tertiary teaching depends much on teachers' approach to teaching. Although the suitability of university teachers is often measured by teachers' qualifications, publications in the relevant discipline, and teaching experience, a teacher's understanding of the nature of what is taught in the classroom may more significantly influence…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Information Science Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Becker, Jonathan D.; Schad, Michael – Online Learning, 2022
Not all instructors in higher education enter the classroom with teaching experience, but all have observed teaching in higher education from the perspective of a student. This "apprenticeship of observation" that Lortie (1975) wrote about decades ago at least gives instructors the opportunity to empathize with their students, an…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Empathy, Online Courses, Phenomenology
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MacDonald, Ron – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
Deciphering teachers' paths to their disciplinary professional identities can make important elements of their tacit knowledge explicit and available to their students.
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teacher Characteristics, Intellectual Disciplines, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Jiang, Shuaipu – Commission for International Adult Education, 2022
Classroom instruction in China and in the United States have sharp differences. Typically, constructivist learning theory shapes American classroom instruction whereas Confucian educational culture shapes Chinese classroom instruction. Furthermore, typically, Chinese classrooms adopt a direct instructional approach whereas American classrooms…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Constructivism (Learning), Confucianism, Asian Culture
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Roberts, Ros – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
This article considers what might be taught to meet a widely held curriculum aim of students being able to understand research in a discipline. Expertise, which may appear as a "chain of practice," is widely held to be underpinned by networks of understanding. Scientific research expertise is considered from this perspective. Within…
Descriptors: Validity, Scientific Research, Evidence, Reliability
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Knudson, Duane – Quest, 2016
This article from the 35th Dudley Allen Sargent Lecture addresses the importance of senior faculty in kinesiology providing holistic guidance to tenure-track faculty to foster excellence in the field. The importance of holistic mentoring of all three faculty roles in higher education is illustrated using research on teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Kinetics, Biomechanics, Mentors, Holistic Approach
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Mandrikas, Achilleas; Parkosidis, Ioannis; Psomiadis, Ploutarchos; Stoumpa, Artemisia; Chalkidis, Anthimos; Mavrikaki, Evangelia; Skordoulis, Constantine – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2013
This paper describes the structure of the "Air Pollution Course", an environmental science laboratory course developed at the Science Education Laboratory of the Faculty of Primary Education, University of Athens, as well as the findings resulting from its implementation by pre-service elementary teachers. The course proposed in this…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Pollution, Foreign Countries, Misconceptions
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Loo, Sai Y. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2012
This article uses a conceptual approach to understand how qualified teachers in England with occupational experience use pedagogic and occupational knowledge and experiences in their teaching practices. The conceptual approach consists of two parts: (1.) "Putting Knowledge to Work" (PKtW), a generic concept which uses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experienced Teachers, Adult Education, Teaching Methods
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Metcalfe, J. Stanley – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2010
It is commonplace to say that the modern economy is knowledge based but a moment's reflection points to the vacuity of this notion. For all economies are knowledge based and could not be otherwise. The question is rather how is one kind of knowledge based economy to be distinguished from another? This essay proposes that the answer may lie in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, School Business Relationship, Partnerships in Education
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Nhalevilo, Emilia A. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2011
This article is a personal history of the Science and Mathematics Education Center (SMEC) in Perth, Australia, during my time there as a student. I make use of narratives to express what I see as the impact on my professional practice of having attended SMEC. I am grateful to SMEC, but what is being grateful really? In this paper I try to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Science Education
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Gopal, Anita – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2011
The need to effectively prepare faculty to teach in a cross-cultural environment has become imperative in the context of globalizing higher education (Deardorff, 2009; Verbik, 2007). Many higher education institutions around the world have internationalized their degrees and programs, and they have established foreign branch campuses to provide…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Change Strategies, Educational Strategies
Beatty, Alexandra – National Academies Press, 2012
Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems. Each additional ton of greenhouse gases emitted commits us to further change and greater risks. In the judgment of the Committee on America's Climate Choices, the environmental, economic, and…
Descriptors: Workshops, Climate, Educational Strategies, Evidence
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Green, Andrew – Perspectives in Education, 2008
This short discussion article outlines a range of theoretical issues underpinning the formation of subject knowledge for teaching. It suggests a number of practical needs that secondary school teachers of English may be seeking to address in the way of subject knowledge development and how this may relate to the provision made within the United…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Professional Continuing Education
Business-Higher Education Forum (NJ1), 2010
The Business-Higher Education Forum's (BHEF's) Securing America's Leadership in STEM Initiative has broken new ground in addressing one of the nation's most critical challenges--increasing the number of students who are interested in and pursue careers in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, the so-called "STEM" fields. The…
Descriptors: Careers, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Study, College Graduates
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Khir, Bustami M. S. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2007
Programmes of Islamic Studies have a longstanding status in a number of Western universities, yet the boundaries of the discipline, its institutional locale and its methodologies are still being questioned. This paper is an attempt to go beyond the discipline's "Eurocentric" settings and reflect on the provision of the subject within its origins…
Descriptors: Discipline, Islam, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Higher Education
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