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Direct linkMalcolm Tight – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Decolonization of higher education policy and practice has become an increasing concern and interest in recent years. This article provides a critical review of the application of decolonization to higher education. It discusses what its proponents mean by the term and how they seek to apply it in practice. It identifies outstanding issues with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Decolonization, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Hamann, Julian; Ringel, Leopold – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
If there is one thing all university rankings have in common, it is that they are the target of widespread criticism. This article takes the many challenges university rankings are facing as its point of departure and asks how they navigate their hostile environment. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, we unveil two modes of ranking…
Descriptors: Universities, Achievement Rating, Criticism, Responses
Tony Ross-Hellauer; Noémie Aubert Bonn; Serge P. J. M. Horbach – Research Evaluation, 2024
Debates about appropriate, fair and effective ways of assessing research and researchers have raged through the scientific community for decades, recently mostly concerned with discussing the merits and limitations of metric-based, quantitative assessments versus peer review-based, qualitative alternatives. Ample attention has been paid to formal…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Evaluation Methods, Research Universities, Evaluation Criteria
Download full textMadeleine Pownall – Psychology Teaching Review, 2023
A feminist perspective is not only compatible with the history, objectives, and emphases of social psychology, but necessary for its continued vitality' (Lott, 1991, p.505). Social psychology is a core component of the British Psychological Society accreditation of psychology programmes. Typically, the teaching of social psychology relies upon…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, Feminism, Criticism, College Students
Hickey, Andrew; Davis, Samantha; Farmer, Will; Dawidowicz, Julianna; Moloney, Clint; Lamont-Mills, Andrea; Carniel, Jess; Pillay, Yosheen; Akenson, David; Brömdal, Annette; Gehrmann, Richard; Mills, Dean; Kolbe-Alexander, Tracy; Machin, Tanya; Reich, Suzanne; Southey, Kim; Crowley-Cyr, Lynda; Watanabe, Taiji; Davenport, Josh; Hirani, Rohit; King, Helena; Perera, Roshini; Williams, Lucy; Timmins, Kurt; Thompson, Michael; Eacersall, Douglas; Maxwell, Jacinta – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2022
A growing body of literature critical of ethics review boards has drawn attention to the processes used to determine the ethical merit of research. Citing criticism on the bureaucratic nature of ethics review processes, this literature provides a useful provocation for (re)considering how the ethics review might be enacted. Much of this criticism…
Descriptors: Ethics, Research Committees, Educational Research, Criticism
Sharon Stein – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
This article reflects on recent calls for universities to deepen their commitments to sustainability in the face of climate change. It suggests that because climate change is a "wicked problem" that is hyper-complex, lacks clear solutions, and affects multiple communities in different ways, universities are unlikely to achieve consensus…
Descriptors: Climate, Sustainability, Colonialism, College Role
Jason McCartney – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Science should provide students an accurate and contemporary education on genetic influence, particularly how it impacts trait variability and developmental norms. Stories involving familial, racial, and sexual differences routinely appear in the popular media and sales of over-the-counter genetic tests are mounting. Unfortunately, research…
Descriptors: Genetics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, History
Erica R. Wiborg; Amber Manning-Ouellette; Ericka Roland – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2023
What does liberation look like in leadership learning and education? This article offers examples for (re)imagining leadership education in program design, coordination, and assessment by centering the leadership for liberation framework and other liberatory approaches. The authors offer examples of how these frameworks serve as an entry point for…
Descriptors: Criticism, Leadership Training, Program Design, Program Administration
Anat Abramovich; Hadas-Shelly Huber – Teacher Development, 2024
The study examined the effect of the use of 'personal reflective diaries' and 'group-friendly criticism' to assess professional development and self-empowerment among 47 Israeli final-year pre-service teachers in a seminar course, and later on, perceptions and insights during their practicum and their internship year. Content analysis of holistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Empowerment, Student Journals
From Gym Crow to P4C: Recontextualizing P4C's Reasonableness within the Racial Politics of the 1960s
Jonathan Wurtz – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2024
As the story is often told, P4C was established after Matthew Lipman, then a professor of education at Columbia University, observed a deficiency in reasoning skills among his students and colleagues during the student protest of April 1968. Lipman pondered whether there might be a way to enhance the critical thinking skills of individuals through…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Children, Thinking Skills, Educational History
José L. López-González – Ethics and Education, 2024
Critical studies in higher education often embrace the ideas of the slowness movement to address time pressure. However, this desirable horizon presents some limitations. On the one hand, by emphasizing solutions at the individual level, boosting slowness may promote tactics incapable of producing changes to the underlying structural dynamics of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ethics, Alienation, Innovation
Wei Su; Axian Huang – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Praise and criticism have long been reported as central feedback designs in academic writing, yet their relative influences on students' reception have not been fully investigated. This study employed six feedback statements (2 valences * 3 writing areas) and collected students' (N = 56) ratings of each statement's perceived comprehension and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Writing (Composition), Positive Reinforcement
Sanna Honkimäki; Päivikki Jääskelä; Päivi Tynjälä – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Current global drivers have challenged higher education and increased institution-wide top-down managed reforms, including curriculum reforms. As academics are vital in curriculum development, listening to their voices is essential for understanding actors' experiences of curriculum change processes in top-down managed reforms. The present study…
Descriptors: Educational Change, College Faculty, College Administration, Criticism
Lischka-Schmidt, Richard – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Talcott Parsons did not leave us with a global and consistent sociology of education. Instead, different aspects can be found in Parsons's oeuvre in different theoretical contexts. This paper summarises these different parts of Parsons's sociology of education -- his writings on the concepts of education and socialisation, the university, the…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Educational Theories, Socialization, Higher Education
Jensen, Mikkel – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2023
This article makes a case for the effectiveness of using imitation-style teaching as a way to introduce how to write theoretically informed pieces of literary or media criticism to undergraduates. By making a case for the relevance of teaching this form of criticism in the undergraduate classroom, as well as exploring exactly how imitation-style…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Undergraduate Students, Writing (Composition)
