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Creating a reflective space in higher education Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Katina Thelin
This article considers the conditions, possibilities, and challenges of creating what is referred to here as a ‘reflective space’ within a higher education course for principals. It is informed by ...
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Editorial Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Lill Langelotz, Kathleen Mahon, Giulia Messina Dahlberg
This special issue is a collection of articles that emerged from a series of symposia on praxis in higher education, aimed at critically exploring challenges and possibilities for educational praxi ...
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Teaching qualitative research in adverse times Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Joost Beuving, Geert de Vries
This article discusses how the teaching of qualitative research in higher education is threatened by the effects of new public management, by academic culture wars and by a growing belief in big data. The controversy over Alice Goffman's book On the Run presents one recent example of this. In an effort to counterbalance these developments, this article stresses the importance in social science curricula
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A longitudinal comparison of information literacy in students starting Politics degrees Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Stephen Thornton
Information literacy, the concept most associated with inculcating the attributes necessary to behave in a strategic, thoughtful and ethical manner in the face of a superfluity of information, has been part of the information specialist scene for many years. As the United Kingdom’s QAA benchmark statements for Politics and International Relations highlight, many of the competences associated with this
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Examining the graduate attribute agenda in Australian universities Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Peta S. Cook
Graduate attributes refer to an amalgamation of cognitive, personal, interpersonal and social skills, abilities and qualities that students are expected to develop and apply during and after their degree programme. They have been widely adopted across higher education in Australia and internationally. In this article, I review some of the continuing problems of graduate attributes in the Australian
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‘I feel really good now!’ Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Maria Zackariasson
Within Swedish higher education, there is an explicit focus on the importance of independence, not least in relation to degree projects, which makes it a significant issue within supervision. What ...
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‘We are not all equal!’ Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Richard Peake
In my role as programme leader of the BA (Hons) Criminal Justice and Criminology, I observed that students who entered with A-levels were more likely to achieve a 2:1 or 1st class degree than students from other routes of entry. Analysis of five cohorts showed that less than half of entrants with Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) qualification achieved a 2:1 classification, compared
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Unreasonable rage, disobedient dissent Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Jessica Gagnon
This article explores the limits of student engagement in higher education in the United Kingdom through the social construction of student activists within media discourses. It scrutinises the impact of dominant neoliberal discourses on the notion of student engagement, constructing certain students as legitimately engaged whilst infantilising and criminalising those who participate in protest. Exploring
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Introduction Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Lisa Garforth, Anselma Gallinat
This introduction sets the theoretical and historical context for this special issue on student engagement. Drawing on literatures about audit culture, governance and change in higher education institutions, and theories of practice, institutions and organisation, it sheds light on the current era of English higher education. The Browne Review led to the withdrawal in 2010 of the majority of the government
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Improving student assessments of elections: the use of information literacy and a course-embedded librarian Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2017-06-01 Paula Booke, Todd J. Wiebe
The study of U.S. elections as a part of introductory political science courses has become an increasingly difficult endeavour as students encounter the ever-changing landscape of electoral politics. Instructors seeking to equip students with the skills needed to navigate this complex terrain may look for partnerships with library faculty and staff as a means of bridging the research gap faced by students
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A tale of two courses: challenging Millennials to experience culture through film Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2017-06-01 Katie Kirakosian, Virginia McLaurin, Cary Speck
In this article, we discuss how adding a final film project to a revised 'Culture through Film' course led to deeper student learning and higher rates of student success, as well as increased student satisfaction. Ultimately, we urge social science educators to include experiential projects in their courses that connect to all learning styles. Such projects should also challenge students to ‘create’
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Editors’ Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of LATISS Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2017-06-01 Susan Wright, Penny Welch
Learning and Teaching (LATISS) is a peer-reviewed journal that uses the social sciences to reflect critically on learning and teaching in the changing context of higher education. The journal invites students and staff to explore their education practices in the light of changes in their institutions, national higher education policies, the strategies of international agencies and developments associated
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‘Insane with courage’ Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2017-03-01 Sarah Amsler
This article considers the role of experiments in learning in movements to democratise higher education ‘under the rule of capital’ (Gutierrez, Navarro and Linsalata 2017). It focuses on the emergence of a new generation of ‘free universities’ in the United Kingdom, situating these in a historical tradition of educational experimentation and a current context of global movements for autonomy from the
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There is an alternative Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2017-03-01 Mike Neary, Joss Winn
This report provides an interim account of a participatory action research project undertaken during 2015-16. The research brought together scholars, students, and expert members of the co-operative movement to design a theoretically informed and practically grounded framework for co-operative higher education that activists, educators and the co-operative movement could take forward into implementation
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Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education? Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2016-06-01 Christopher Newfield
The large-scale massive open online course (xMOOC) rose to prominence in 2012–13 on the promise that its outcomes would be better and cheaper than those of face-to-face university instruction. By late 2013, xMOOC educational claims had been largely discredited, though policy interest in ed-tech carried on. What can we learn about the future of ed-tech by analysing this eighteen-month period in higher
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Making the best of an inappropriate textbook: using an ‘international edition’ to teach critical thinking and intercultural understanding Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2016-03-01 Kristina C. Marcellus
In this report, I outline and provide examples of an approach to using an international edition of an introductory sociology textbook to facilitate cross-cultural learning and critical thinking skills in an EFL (English as a foreign language) environment at a small engineering university in the United Arab Emirates.