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Marina Garcia-Morante; Montserrat Castelló; Anna Sala-Bubaré – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of PhDs pursuing careers at the boundaries between academic and non-academic sectors, particularly with multiple transitions and dual appointments. However, the professional links that PhD holders pursuing non-academic careers maintain with academia and how these relate to different…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Career Choice, College Faculty, Knowledge Level
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Muller, Johan; Young, Michael – Curriculum Journal, 2019
This article extends the authors' earlier work (Young & Muller 2013) exploring the concept of 'powerful knowledge'. It first examines some of the origins of the concept and goes on to a brief consideration of how sociology, political theory and economics have traditionally represented 'power' and 'knowledge'. Two key senses of power are…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Knowledge Level, Politics, Humanities
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Roy, Bidhan – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2016
What does it mean for a student to be critically literate in the Twenty First Century? How do we teach critical literacy within university humanities programs in the United States? And what are the implications of critical literacy for the conception and praxis of the global good? Using Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams' conceptions of critical…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Community Involvement, Teaching Methods, Humanities
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Martinucci, Kenneth P.; Stein, Daniel; Wittmann, Helen C.; Morote, Elsa-Sofia – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2015
We explored whether the knowledge of hybrid teaching (conceptions) or incorrect knowledge (misconceptions) or lack of knowledge differed among faculty from various teaching areas--education, social sciences, business, art and humanities, and math and sciences--in New York. One hundred twenty-eight faculty members responded to a test of their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Knowledge Level, Misconceptions, Statistical Analysis
Elzinga, Aant – 1983
Perspectives concerning "research about research" are summarized, based on symposia sponsored by the University of Goteborg in Sweden. It is noted that studies of science, technology, and society (STS) are prevalent in several countries during the 1970s. Based on visits to STS programs in the United States, it is suggested that there are…
Descriptors: College Programs, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Hartshorne, Nathaniel – 1981
Freshmen and seniors in four-year colleges and students in two-year institutions were surveyed nationally in 1980 to determine their understanding of the world and world issues. The survey, which was based on a sample of about 3,000 undergraduates at 185 institutions, included a test of global understanding and three questionnaires on students'…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, College Freshmen, College Second Language Programs, College Seniors