Research and Development in Higher Education Vol. 29: Critical Visions Thinking, learning and researching in higher education

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Research and Development in Higher Education Vol. 29: Critical Visions Thinking, learning and researching in higher education

July, 2006, 392 pages
Editor 
Alison Bunker and Iris Vardi
ISBN 
0 908557 69 8
 
Table of contents

How can a ‘teaching and research’ academic scientist survive in the current economic climate?

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Mind the gap: Universities as employers of choice

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Reaching outside of the discipline: Chemistry teachers or organisational developers?

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I can get by with a little help from my friends: Peer mentoring - critical friends for the reflective practitioner

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Internationalising the curriculum for students from Singapore: A field study in the Australian bush

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Critical reflections on international collaborative research

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Critical perspectives: Students’ expectations of difficulties they may face in undertaking their degree

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Partners in professional experience: A collaborative model

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The relationships between personality, approaches to learning and academic success in first-year psychology distance education students

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Managing cultural diversity in student teams: A proposed conceptual framework

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Critical times: An exploration of recent evaluations of researcher development needs

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Learning through undergraduate research: Encouraging a holistic approach to the teaching-research nexus

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Remaining relevant: Assessment practices in undergraduate education

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Student constructs, alternative pedagogies and assessment dilemmas

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Research and teaching in a new generation university: Emerging dimensions and academics’ attitudes

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Personal epistemology of Thai university students: Cultural influence on the development of beliefs about knowledge and knowing

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Framing the discourse practices of higher education: Academic literacies, hidden cultures and the transition experience of postgraduate Chinese students.

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Embedding graduate skills into a first year management course: Theory, practice and reflection

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A preliminary study on gender and learning style in Malaysian higher learning institutions: Evidence from a cultural perspective

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Authentic conditions for authentic assessment: Aligning task and assessment

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Guided by the philosophy of constructive alignment, directed by the realisation of niche construction

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Modelling new directions with product-based planning

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Critical reflections on an academic literacies policy five years on

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Extending the boundaries of learning in management education: An integrative approach for promoting transfer of training into the practice environment

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Facilitating students’ critical transition capabilities in a first year nursing course

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Authentic learning in crime prevention practice

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'See, these big potatoes they all think this way': International students' experiences in constructing knowledge in higher education

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Offshore university campuses: Bonus or baggage?

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Talking among ourselves? A personal journey across the silos of educational research

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Variation in ways of experiencing dissemination: Implications for the adoption and adaptation of teaching and learning innovation projects

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Combining academic and workplace learning experiences in the design of a professional masters IT degree

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Mark-UP: Design and evaluation of an on-line annotation tool to support metacognitive development of reading comprehension

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Retaining mature-age students at university: A student services perspective

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New metaphors for teaching and learning in a university context

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Ronline: Mediating artefacts to support technology facilitated learning

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Australian higher education reform: A reflexive modernization perspective

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The lost, the least and the last: A South African higher education case study exploring the possibility of defying the barriers to learning

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What makes for a good tutorial: Listening to the students

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Aspects of academic work that discriminate between white, black and expatriate South African academics

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Representing the self in education: The tensions of authorship, authenticity and authority

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From strategy to implementation in a ‘global university’

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The corporatisation of higher education: A question of balance

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Positively speaking – actively listening: Interdisciplinary reflections on lecturing as valuable in higher education

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Development of integrated learning in business curriculum

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Learning across communities of practice: How postgraduate students cope with returning to higher education in an international setting

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Learning with failing students: Putting thoughts into actions

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A preliminary exploration of the efficacy of self-directed learning in a new PBL medical course

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Beyond craft practice: Searching for an evidence-base on effective pedagogy in higher education

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A new day of judgement? Accrediting assessors in South African higher education

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Leadership practice change: Critical perspectives from the Chinese educational leaders in an Australian offshore program

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First year students’ perceptions of the importance of good teaching: Not all things are equal

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