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Buyl, Ernst – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
As an emerging field within higher education, academic development remains fragmented, both as a field of theory and practice. In the vibrant, on-going debate about the theoretical foundations and directions of academic development as a nascent field, some relatively wide-ranging claims which have been made seem to be lacking in supporting…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Epistemology, Educational Development, Semi Structured Interviews
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Jin, Jin; Horta, Hugo – Tertiary Education and Management, 2018
In a globalized world, universities face challenges adapting to changing environmental pressures and expectations of legitimacy. Studies on the topic have tended to focus on universities in North America and Europe, while Chinese universities have received less attention, perhaps due to their status as latecomers to global higher education. Based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics
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Yang, Rui – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Since the late nineteenth century, China, as a latecomer to modernization, has prioritized Western learning. The first modern university was created in China in 1895 to serve such a purpose with little linkage to China's rich indigenous cultural traditions. Modelled on European and North American experiences and operating in a Confucian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Institutional Mission, Higher Education
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McGrath, Cormac; Barman, Linda; Stenfors-Hayes, Terese; Roxå, Torgny; Silén, Charlotte; Laksov, Klara Bolander – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2016
In this paper, we are concerned with how change agents go about and experience change implementation in higher education. We identified change agents and interviewed them about how they implement change. Empirical data was analysed using a theoretical framework of change. The findings suggest that change in the university is enacted through a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Agents, Universities, Persuasive Discourse
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Chadha, Deesha; Sato, Hiroaki – International Journal for Academic Development, 2015
In 2004, Ray Land produced extensive literature on the 12 orientations of academic developers. These orientations provided academic developers with a useful tool through which they have been able to better articulate their roles and their place in academia. We have used the orientations model to establish, compare, and contrast the identity of…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Research Universities
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Kloot, Bruce Charles – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
This paper provides a history of academic development by examining how a South African institution coped with the potent social forces confronting it before the collapse of apartheid. Theoretically, it draws on the framework of Pierre Bourdieu and engages with a paper written a decade ago by Naidoo, who also used Bourdieu to understand…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Social Capital, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Change
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Hemmings, Brian; Hill, Doug; Sharp, John – Tertiary Education and Management, 2015
As a result of policy changes, nearly all university colleges in the UK have been redesignated as universities. This transition was studied in one such institution using semi-structured interviews with a representative sample of six academic staff and the transcripts subjected to a thematic analysis. This analysis identified three themes: staying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews, Transcripts (Written Records), Educational Policy
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Aktaruzzaman, Md; Plunkett, Margaret – American Journal of Distance Education, 2016
This article reports on part of a study conducted to collate the policies and practices of two successful distance education providers of the developed world with those of a provider in Bangladesh in order to inform a culturally appropriate distance education framework for a developing country. This article also describes an innovative theoretical…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Developing Nations, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
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Balschweid, Mark; Knobloch, Neil A.; Hains, Bryan J. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2014
Insignificant numbers of college students declaring STEM majors creates concern for the future of the U.S. economy within the global marketplace. This study highlights the educational development and teaching strategies employed by STEM faculty in teaching first-year students in contextualized life science courses, such as animal, plant, and food…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education, Teaching Experience, College Faculty
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Howland, Gill – Management in Education, 2015
This article provides a narrative which illustrates the experiences of one group of UK schools as they have attempted to introduce innovation in order to achieve their collective vision of improving educational opportunity for all pupils in their care. It considers the findings of a small-scale research project which follows, over a 3-year period,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Educational Opportunities, Longitudinal Studies
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Gallwey, Susan Kresky; Wilgus, Gay – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
This study examines how various components of a school-linking programme between Ireland and South Africa either support Development Education's goal of sustainable, equitable partnerships that enable mutual learning between Northern and Southern countries or, instead, promote power imbalances that reify stereotypic images of weak, needy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Ethnography, Educational Development
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Aubusson, Peter; Schuck, Sandy – Teacher Development, 2013
Education is facing significant political and contextual challenges that will impact its future. This study employs a Delphi methodology to investigate teacher educators' views of current trends and their consequences for teacher education futures. Interviews were conducted with a sample of expert teacher educators drawn from eight countries. This…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Expectation, Delphi Technique, Teacher Educators
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Pasura, Rinos – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2015
The reconstruction of the Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector into a competitive training market, which led to the participation of international students and commercial for-profit private VET providers, has until recently focused on the importance of international students to the national economy whilst ignoring the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Models, Vocational Education
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Little, Deandra; Green, David A. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2012
Previously, the authors developed a theoretical framework drawing on an early sociological study of migration to explore how marginality--being between cultures--might account for academic developers' "hybrid" academic identities and help them navigate institutional power dynamics. Based on data from semi-structured interviews, this…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Change, Semi Structured Interviews, Cross Cultural Studies
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Erguvan, Deniz – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
This study examined the effects of foundation universities on the higher education system of Turkey through perceptions of academic staff in state and foundation universities. In this qualitative research, 15 members of academic staff were interviewed for their perceptions regarding a variety of issues about foundation universities. Analysis of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research
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