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Nattalia Godbold; Kelly E. Elizabeth Matthews; Deanne Gannaway – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Definitions and understandings of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), scholarly teaching, and research are multiple and often conflicting. Reflecting on Boyer's intention for academic work to be recognised as overlapping and interconnected, in this paper we examine some of the commonly assumed models of Boyer's scholarship of teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, College Faculty, Guidelines
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Matthews, Kelly E.; Cook-Sather, Alison; Acai, Anita; Dvorakova, Sam Lucie; Felten, Peter; Marquis, Elizabeth; Mercer-Mapstone, Lucy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
A body of literature on students as partners (SaP) in higher education has emerged over the last decade that documents, shares, and evaluates SaP approaches. As is typical in emerging fields of inquiry, scholars differ regarding how they see the relationship between the developments in SaP practices and the theoretical explanations that guide,…
Descriptors: Praxis, Theory Practice Relationship, Teaching Methods, Higher Education
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Deakins, Eric – Higher Education Research and Development, 2009
Although international students studying in New Zealand desire and expect contact with their domestic peers, the level of cross-national interactions remains generally low. This paper describes an initiative to promote more and better intercultural understanding within a target group of students having similar needs and interests in a higher…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Harvey, Arlene; Kamvounias, Patty – Higher Education Research and Development, 2008
A major dilemma facing higher educational institutions around the world is how to achieve quality outcomes for students in an increasingly internationalised and competitive environment. To effect change in teaching and learning, we advocate a teacher-as-learner approach to the implementation of teaching and learning policy. Our approach has been…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Trigwell, Keith; Prosser, Michael; Ginns, Paul – Higher Education Research and Development, 2005
The "Approaches to teaching inventory" (ATI) is now being widely used as an instrument for formally monitoring approaches to teaching. A lesser-known use is as a stimulant for discussion among groups of teachers to raise awareness of the variation in qualitatively different ways of approaching teaching. The phenomenographic origins of…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Learning Theories, Philosophy, Teaching Methods
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Booth, Shirley; Anderberg, Elsie – Higher Education Research and Development, 2005
In this paper, we look backwards to educational development principles and practices as implemented in the 1990s at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and forward to ideal principles and practices for the design of courses for teachers in higher education. The bridge between the two lies partly in an evaluation study, which we will…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Teacher Education, Higher Education