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Czerniewicz, Laura; Mogliacci, Rada; Walji, Sukaina; Cliff, Alan; Swinnerton, Bronwen; Morris, Neil – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
This paper explores how academics navigate the Higher Education (HE) landscape being reshaped by the convergence of unbundling, marketisation and digitisation processes. Social Realism distinguishes three layers of social reality (in this case higher education): the empirical, the actual and the real. The empirical layer is presented by the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Navigation, Commercialization, Technology Uses in Education
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Kari Sahan; Özgür Sahan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This study examines the phenomenon of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education through the lens of neoliberalism and linguistic entrepreneurship. Although commonly reported benefits of EMI include improved English proficiency and better job opportunities, there is a lack of research critically examining the relationship between EMI and…
Descriptors: Alumni, Language Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Farrow, Robert; Moe, Rolin – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
The concept of 'post-truth' is here explored within the context of education and educational technology. Contemporary political discourse is often characterised by a polarisation of political belief and scepticism about scientific and expert authority has become commonplace. We explore tensions between democratic and technocratic impulses in…
Descriptors: Ethics, Political Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Educational Administration
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Sutton, Paul – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Using a dialectical mode of exposition, I offer a reflexive sociological theorisation of the paradox that characterises my academic identity: a fatalistic disenchantment concerning the colonisation of Higher Education (HE) by neoliberalism co-exists with a utopianism concerning HE's emancipatory possibilities. I begin with a discussion of Weber's…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Professional Identity, College Faculty
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Bahia, Sara; Freire, Isabel P.; Estrela, Maria Teresa; Amaral, Anabela; Espírito Santo, José António – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
There has been an overall change in higher education towards the achievement of outstanding patterns of quality and excellence that assure competitiveness at a global scale. Teachers feel the pressure of official regulations for achieving quality and excellence, based on questionable concepts of quality that do not take into account the experience…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Educational Change, Higher Education, Educational Cooperation
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Palmer, Nathan; Schueths, April M. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
As higher education embraces the ideologies of the market, educators are being asked to teach evermore students with fewer resources. Running counter to the trend of marketization, a decentralized group of educators are taking advantage of Web 2.0 technologies (including Facebook, Twitter, and blogging platforms such as Wordpress, etc.) to…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Commercialization, Web 2.0 Technologies, Teacher Collaboration