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Direct linkMeg Colasante – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Activity theory is a relatively young methodology for researching higher education teaching practices. Beyond systemic analyse of workplace activities and their development, activity theory used in its full interventionist capacity can foster practitioners' transformative agency to initiate practice change. Nevertheless, this is not an easy…
Descriptors: Intervention, Higher Education, Educational Research, Research Methodology
Wood, Anna K.; Galloway, Ross K.; Sinclair, Christine; Hardy, Judy – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
In this paper we develop knowledge of the discourse that takes place between teacher and students in two large undergraduate classes which use a flipped, active learning approach. In flipped classes students encounter the content through pre-class resources, freeing up class time for more active engagement with the material. This results in…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Physics
Brooke, Mark; Monbec, Laetitia; Tilakaratna, Namala – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
This paper comprises findings from three parallel case studies within the broad framework of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). These provide results from classroom-based action research conducted over two years working with Semantics, Specialisation and axiological cosmologies from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). Each author shares how one or…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jang, Syh-Jong; Tsai, Meng-Fang; Chen, Ho-Yuan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
The current study assessed and compared university students' perceptions' of a novice and an experienced physics instructor's Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK). Two college physics instructors and 116 students voluntarily participated in this study. The research model comprised three workshops, mid-term and final evaluations and instructor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Student Attitudes
Nordstrom, Katrina; Korpelainen, Paivi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
Problem solving is a critical skill for engineering students and essential to development of creativity and innovativeness. Essential to such learning is an ease of communication and allowing students to address the issues at hand via the terminology, attitudes, humor and empathy, which is inherent to their frame of mind as novices, without the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Video Technology, Engineering Education, Creativity
Dotger, Sharon – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) teach many undergraduates in introductory science courses in the USA. Previous literature suggests that GTAs would prefer more context-dependent opportunities to learn to teach more effectively. This study explores the impact of participation in a lesson study cycle with GTAs responsible for an undergraduate…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, College Science, Lesson Plans, Earth Science
