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Jeremy P. Reich – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2025
This essay discusses the impact of a diversity and social justice course on the assessment philosophy and practice of an early-career higher education assessment professional. The author, who directs institutional assessment practices at a public 4-year institution in the northeastern United States and is pursuing an online doctorate in higher…
Descriptors: Diversity, Social Justice, Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes
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Vaudrin-Charette, Julie – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2019
In this chapter, the author draws on personal experiences as pedagogical advisor and as a doctoral student, to consider how recognizing voice, family, and vulnerabilities may assist in developing a sense of accountability in academia. Reflecting on the Canadian context of reconciliation, the author considers how moving from an intercultural to an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
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López-Íñiguez, Guadalupe; Burnard, Pamela – Research Studies in Music Education, 2022
Making sense of musicians' professional learning pathways is of crucial importance to understanding their career progressions, their routes into creative employment, and the relevance of various policies to their professional lives. However, this is a far cry from understanding how critical reflection catalyzes diverse learning routes, especially…
Descriptors: Musicians, Music Education, Career Development, Graduate Students
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Philpott, Carey – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2015
Timely completion has recently been an important focus of academic literature on supervising Doctoral students. This paper is a reflection on the academic literature on timely doctoral completion by a former Doctoral student who has been a serial non-completer. This reflection explores whether academics' constructions, reported in the research…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Ethnography
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Halvorsen, Torill Aagot – International Review of Education, 2018
A white person from the Global North, referred to in Kiswahili as a mzungu, can hardly conduct research anonymously, observe unnoticed or merge with staff and students in the context of African university classrooms. This article builds on the author's six years of research at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) in Tanzania, examining staff and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Whites
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Coffman, Karie; Putman, Paul; Adkisson, Anthony; Kriner, Bridget; Monaghan, Catherine – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2016
This qualitative study examined the identity of doctoral students in their quest to become scholars. The research question asked: What impact did a Community of Practice have on the doctoral students? The findings illustrated that on the journey the participants struggled to integrate multiple identities and roles. They also refined their…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Communities of Practice, Expertise
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Lussier-Ley, Chantale – Qualitative Report, 2010
This article emerges from a self-study (Baird, 2004; Bergum, 2003; Grumet, 1990; Ham & Kane, 2004; Kitchen, 2005a, 2005b; Loughran, 2004) conducted as a requirement for a doctoral class at the University of Ottawa in the Faculty of Education. In this study, I reflected on my embodied experiences and the role of the body in my consulting…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Therapy, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries
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Bryan, Michelle L.; Wilson, Brandy S.; Lewis, Ashlee A.; Wills, Lisa E. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2012
The purpose of this investigation was to explore doctoral students' experiences engaging in conversations about the role of race and racism in education during their programs. We conducted focus groups with graduate students in a School of Education at a predominantly White institution in the South. Our findings support the notion that creating…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), African American Students, Race, Classroom Communication
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King, Laura H.; Aguinaga, Nancy; O'Brien, Christopher; Young, Willette; Zgonc, Kimberly – American Annals of the Deaf, 2010
Leadership in education, particularly special education, implies both knowledge and application of professional behaviors, decisions, and ethics within the field. University students look for best practices in education to be modeled by faculty; this, in turn, underscores a fundamental belief in inclusionary principles. Such modeling is important…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Disabilities, Position Papers, Special Education