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Kember, David – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
Many academics see themselves primarily as experts in their discipline and hold content-oriented conceptions of teaching. It can then be difficult to persuade them to adopt forms of teaching incorporating active student engagement, even though there is evidence for the effectiveness of such forms of learning. This article describes a…
Descriptors: Student Centered Curriculum, Higher Education, Active Learning, Educational Quality
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Kember, David; Wong, Anthony – Higher Education, 2000
Analysis of interviews with 55 undergraduate university students in Hong Kong finds student perceptions of teaching quality fit into four categories, or quadrants, formed from the interactions between their beliefs about learning (passive or active) and about teaching (transmissive or nontraditional). Results confirm the significance of implicit…
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Lam, Bick-Har; Kember, David – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
The relationship between conceptions of teaching and approaches to teaching was explored in a study of 18 secondary school art teachers in Hong Kong. Conceptions of teaching approaches were fitted to a four-category model. Each of the categories was distinguished by reference to six relevant dimensions. As is the case in higher education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Teachers, Educational Background, Teaching Methods