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Choi, Min-Seok; Rhoades, Mindi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
The critique, central to teaching and learning in fine arts studios, allows expert teachers to apprentice novice art students into their professional community, through feedback and guidance. This article examines ways teachers' discursive practices during desk critiques, in particular, socially construct opportunities for students to learn what…
Descriptors: Art Education, Fine Arts, Discourse Analysis, Introductory Courses
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Arvaja, Maarit – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
The emergence of 'new managerialism' in academic institutions and professions has given rise to tensions between one's professional self and work context. Such tensions often originate from a misalignment between institutional and personal values. This study builds on a dialogical approach to identity and discusses the role of inner tensions and…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, College Faculty, Teacher Role, Researchers
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Jawitz, Jeff – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
The real and imagined racial differences and similarities between groups of students and staff have consequences in everyday experiences in South Africa. One aspect of engaging with the challenges facing higher education transformation post-Apartheid is through understanding how the racialized context interacts with the experience of teaching.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Differences, Higher Education, College Faculty
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van der Rijst, R. M.; Visser-Wijnveen, G. J.; Verloop, N.; van Driel, J. H. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
A broad communicative repertoire can help university lecturers to motivate and engage diverse student populations. The aim of this study is to develop and explore the usefulness and validity of a tool to identify patterns in lecturers' verbal repertoire. Speech act theory is presented as a framework to study lecturers' verbal…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Academic Discourse, College Students, Student Motivation
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Chang, Peichin; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
Taking an effective authorial stance in research argumentation has been designated as both vitally important and challenging. The study investigated English as a foreign language (EFL) doctoral students' conceptions of authorial stance, the role of domains in affecting their conceptions, and the ties of the conceptions to the participants'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Harman, Kerry; McDowell, Liz – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
This paper is based on an empirical study of assessment practices currently being undertaken in a post-1992 university in the UK. Our broad interest is in examining assessment practices in context in order to explore why lecturers assess in the ways that they do. The Assessment Environments and Cultures project aims to illuminate some of the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Identification