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Schwartz, Barry – Journal of Moral Education, 2022
Many thinkers are accustomed to separating facts and values--knowledge and morality. They believe that morality enters into the choices scientists and scholars make about what is worth studying, but after that, the cold logic of evidence assessment takes over. This sells science and scholarship short. I will suggest that science and scholarship,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ethics, Well Being, Moral Values
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Shannon Watkins; Jenna Robinson – Academic Questions, 2024
All learning, particularly higher learning, is premised on the notion that there is such a thing as truth and that it is eminently worth pursuing. All serious inquiries into the various branches of human knowledge have the discovery and dissemination of truth as their end goals. The humanities are no exception. In the last several decades,…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Humanities Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Pang, Haishao; Wang, Qing; Bao, Rui – Higher Education Forum, 2021
From the perspective of "suzhi" education, this study analyses the historical development of the undergraduate educational model at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). It could be argued that BIT's talent-cultivating system's transformations from 1940 to 2020 echo Chinese higher education's reform and development. This study concludes…
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Zen Parry – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Within the last decades, education has undergone multiple transformations including offering preset syllabi and technology-based modes of presentation to learners. Parallel to these changes has been the emergence of efforts addressing diversity, equity and inclusion, leading to critical discussions on issues within higher education and aligned…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Course Descriptions, Inclusion, Educational Environment
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Arnoldo Cantú – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2025
There has been a significant change in the cultural zeitgeist as of late. It has been especially noticeable in the academy over the past several years with the discipline of social work being no exception. In this essay, I will situate myself in a vulnerable position and will write about my disillusionment in the discipline I was proud to join a…
Descriptors: Social Work, Humanism, Cultural Context, Social Attitudes
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Buhl, Mie; Andreasen, Lars Birch; Pushpanadham, Karanam – International Review of Education, 2018
The proliferation and expansion of massive open online courses (MOOCs) prompts a need to revisit classical pedagogical questions. In what ways will MOOCs facilitate and promote new e-learning pedagogies? Is current learning design adequate for the "massiveness" and "openness" of MOOCs? This article discusses the ways in which…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Instructional Design, Teacher Role, Higher Education
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Fert, Marion – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
While the number of refugees in tertiary education remains small in comparison to the total number of refugee youths, with 1% of university-students worldwide, their social, economic and political impact in refugee societies is believed to be significant. Yet, the role of higher education in their socialisation, the way humanitarian actors invest…
Descriptors: Refugees, College Students, Socialization, Role of Education
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Taylor, Rebecca M.; Kuntz, Ashley Floyd – Harvard Educational Review, 2019
In this essay, Rebecca M. Taylor and Ashley Floyd Kuntz explore the higher education aims of advancing truth, respecting speech, and fostering inclusive learning environments in the context of controversial invited speakers on college campuses. They consider the case of Charles Murray's visit to Middlebury College in 2017. They argue that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Freedom of Speech, Activism, Bias
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Macfarlane, Bruce – Higher Education Quarterly, 2015
Dualisms pervade the language of higher education research providing an over-simplified roadmap to the field. However, the lazy logic of their popular appeal supports the perpetuation of erroneous and often outdated assumptions about the nature of modern higher education. This paper explores nine commonly occurring dualisms:…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Research Design, Collegiality
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Nikolaevskaya, Olga – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
The paper considers the modern higher education system that forms the intellectual potential of the nation. It is shown that the most promising way is to develop creating, searching and navigating thinking. It is concluded that it is these aspects that allow applying a systemic approach to the development of the managerial potential. [For the…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Higher Education, Systems Approach, Educational Administration
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Holligan, Chris; Shah, Qasir – Power and Education, 2017
Neo-liberal capitalism is a representation of values that are detrimental to intellectual inquiry. Market deregulation and consumer choice are relentless in their erosion of academic autonomy and traditions of independent scholarship. Education as a 'positional good' may be weakened more in the post-1992 higher education sector, where…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Global Approach, Social Systems
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van Balen, Barbara; van Arensbergen, Pleun; van der Weijden, Inge; van den Besselaar, Peter – Higher Education Policy, 2012
The competition for top positions in university rankings has put a stronger emphasis on the quality of university staff. Recruitment of excellent scholars is a core activity for university HRM. In this study, we compare the careers of pairs of similar researchers that were considered as very talented in their early careers. Of every pair, one has…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Researchers, Reputation
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Terras, Melody M.; Ramsay, Judith – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer an exciting range of opportunities to widen access and participation in education. The massive and open nature of MOOCs places the control of learning at the discretion of the learner. Therefore, it is essential to understand learner behaviour. This paper examines the psychological considerations inherent…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Open Education, Performance Factors, Barriers
Elizabeth Losh – MIT Press, 2014
Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plagiarism-detection software. In the seats are the students, armed with smartphones, laptops, tablets, music players, and social networking. Although these two forces seem poised to do battle with each…
Descriptors: MOOCs, College Faculty, Learning Management Systems, Educational Technology
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Pascarella, Ernest T.; Blaich, Charles; Martin, Georgianna L.; Hanson, Jana M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
The publication of Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's influential new book, "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses," the findings of which were summarized in an article by the same authors in the March/April "Change," has caused a national furor centering around their multi-institutional findings that the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Postsecondary Education, College Students, Campuses
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