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Lorencová, Hana; Jarošová, Eva; Avgitidou, Sofia; Dimitriadou, Catherine – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Promoting students' critical thinking is an important task of Teacher Education. This is a review paper of 39 research papers regarding the critical thinking practices that are utilised in Teacher Education programmes, including instructional approaches and strategies, ways of assessment, their results, and the factors that affect their success.…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Skill Development
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Knight, Peter; Tait, Jo; Yorke, Mantz – Studies in Higher Education, 2006
Educational professional development is a global concern. It is often characterised by event-delivery methods, though there are signs that other approaches are gaining favour. The authors stress the significance of non-formal learning, and the ways in which it can be promoted and enhanced within the activity systems within which teachers in higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Education, Higher Education, Faculty Development
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Haggis, Tamsin – Studies in Higher Education, 2004
It might be expected that the challenges and pressures currently affecting British higher education would be stimulating an atmosphere of analysis and debate in relation to the 'official discourse' of mainstream pedagogical theory in higher education. It seems, however, that the literature offers new university teachers a fairly narrow range of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation