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Richard Jaffu – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The study determined the role of personal values in doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) students' academic success in Tanzania. Specifically, it looked into the influence of openness to change values, self-enhancement values and conservation values on Ph.D. students' academic success. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed a…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Values, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Catie Nielson; Emma Pitt; Michal Fux; Kristin de Nesnera; Nicole Betz; Jessica S. Leffers; Kimberly D. Tanner; John D. Coley – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
Previous research has shown that students employ intuitive thinking when understanding scientific concepts. Three types of intuitive thinking--essentialist, teleological, and anthropic thinking--are used in biology learning and can lead to misconceptions. However, it is unknown how commonly these types of intuitive thinking, or cognitive…
Descriptors: Language Usage, College Students, Biology, Scientific Concepts
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James Drimalla; Brady A. Tyburski; Aida Alibek – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2024
Emerging mathematics education researchers in the United States need to be better equipped to attend to the philosophical backgrounds of theories used in research. Thus, doctoral programs must provide students with sustained space to reflect on the philosophical backgrounds of theories and attend to their worldviews to ensure students are well…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Theories, Doctoral Programs, Educational Research
Sean Michael Cassidy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated the impact that co-curricular programming delivered by the University Honors Program (UHP) at North Carolina State University through the Honors Forum course had on first-year students' self-reported knowledge of civil discourse, their assessment of its importance and impact, and their evaluation of their commitment to the…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Honors Curriculum, Persuasive Discourse, Empathy
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Kimmel Chamat Garcés – Higher Education Research and Development, 2025
In the context of the profound transformations in higher education learning ecologies brought about by the proliferation of postdigital environments, there is an urgent need for a more holistic, relational, and ethically responsive approach to reimagining learning spaces. This paper proposes a novel pluriversal framework, grounded in relational…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Higher Education, Space Utilization, Journal Articles
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Zack Moir; Aidan Harvey; Elizabeth Veldon – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2025
This article presents a theoretical consideration of some of the ways in which capitalist realism is shaping the field of higher popular music education. We begin by presenting an overview of our understanding of Fisher's concept and then offer a critical but hopeful consideration of the interconnected areas in which the business ontology that…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Realism, Higher Education, Music
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Winkler, Christa E.; Mayhew, Matthew J.; Rockenbach, Alyssa N. – Research in Higher Education, 2021
The study of diversity climates is as complicated as the study of diversity itself. Despite the call for more sophisticated and multi-dimensional approaches to the study of diversity climates, few empirical efforts have been designed to do so, as the literature remains replete with work bifurcating and labeling diversity climates as positive or…
Descriptors: Diversity (Institutional), College Environment, World Views
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Oostendorp, Marcelyn – Applied Linguistics, 2023
The discourse of mastery is prominent in applied linguistics. The idea of mastery, however, does not remain only on the discourse level: curricula and policies are meant to be implemented, and therefore mastery and all that is associated with it (near perfection, dominance over something, etc.) is also practiced. In this paper, I argue that we…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Mastery Learning, Foreign Countries, World Views
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Kamran Hyder Malik; Hazri Jamil; Aziah Ismail; Gul Muhammad Rind; Sobia Bhutto – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this empirical study is to examine prospective teachers' international mindedness and intercultural competence, grounded in sociocultural theory. The research aims to understand the factors that foster these traits in prospective teachers and their significance in promoting competence in culturally diverse environments.…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Preservice Teachers, Cultural Awareness, Interpersonal Competence
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Rebekah Smith McGloin – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
This conceptual paper considers doctoral candidate mindset and effective doctoral supervision. I explore mindset through a Critical Mobilities lens to posit two mindsets that candidates inhabit on their doctoral journey: transit and connectivity (Kesselring, (2006). Pioneering mobilities: New patterns of movement and motility in a mobile world.…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, World Views, Supervision, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
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van Brussel, Suzan; Timmermans, Miranda; Verkoeijen, Peter; Paas, Fred – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
Open-mindedness is defined as one's willingness and ability to consider opposing beliefs and perspectives and give them a serious, impartial consideration by setting aside one's commitment towards one's own beliefs and perspectives. Learning to prepare and teach open-minded lessons is a crucial skill for student teachers because it fosters an…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Student Teachers, Lesson Plans
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Dall'Alba, Gloria – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Increased interest in teaching has been evident in recent decades, accompanied by heightened activity in promoting teaching quality. Programs about teaching and learning in higher education are one strategy adopted for this purpose. This article is concerned with reflecting upon, and theorising, the experience of teaching in one such accredited…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Teaching (Occupation), Higher Education, Teaching Experience
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Zhuang, Tengteng; Kong, Xiangyuan – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
This study examines how Chinese postgraduate students' personal worldviews are separately and collectively shaped by the interplay of neoliberalism, Confucianism and patriotism. The findings reveal that neoliberalism contributes to Chinese postgraduates' enterprising self by shaping their subjectivity in pursuing personal goals, influencing their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, World Views, Influences
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Locke, Michelle; Trudgett, Michelle; Page, Susan – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
Data from the "Developing Indigenous Early Career Researchers" (ECRs) project reported that efforts of Indigenous ECRs are often undermined by examples of micro-racism. Shared personal experiences revealed racist attitudes and assumptions held by some non-Indigenous academics. This draws critical attention to the fact that while many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, World Views
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Kellen Copeland; Shaozeng Zhang; Bastian Thomsen; David Fennell; David G. Lewis; Sam Fennell; Amy Schneider; Marley Taylor; Dane Nickerson; Asier Hernandez-Saez; Bryan Breidenach; Kelly Faulkner; Judy Chen; Marshall Floyd; Liann Goldmann; Shelby Copeland; Max Duggan; Reilly Scheffing; Megan Mooney; Price Willoch; Matea Mihaljevic; Sommer Dalla-Bona; Michael Harte – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Wildlife-human relations in the United States are predominantly influenced by Euro-American sociocultural dynamics and (neo)colonial legacies. Humans dominate nonhuman animals through violence, suffering, and death. Wildlife management as a practice is becoming increasingly criticized. Disagreement emerges from epistemological and ontological…
Descriptors: Humanism, Experiential Learning, Environmental Education, Postcolonialism
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