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Direct linkElmberger, Agnes; Björck, Erik; Liljedahl, Matilda; Nieminen, Juha; Bolander Laksov, Klara – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2019
Many medical universities offer educational development activities to support clinical teachers in their teaching role. Research has focused on the scope and effectiveness of such activities and on why individual teachers attend. However, systemic perspectives that go beyond a focus on individual participants are scarce in the existing literature.…
Descriptors: Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Hospitals, Educational Development, Social Theories
Xiaohong, Li – Chinese Education & Society, 2019
The structure of higher education in China is characterized by a high degree of hierarchy as well as strong homogeneity, differing from not only American higher education, which features a high degree of both hierarchy and heterogeneity, but also higher education in continental Europe, which exhibits a low degree of hierarchy. Previous studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Federal Government, Power Structure
Simmons, Llewellyn E. – Voices in Education, 2015
This article critically analyses national development, a false narrative for the establishment of national literacy, a national math strategy, and national identity plans for student success. The danger and power of false narratives of national development are analysed, especially when subscribed to by formal colonial educational institutions like…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Social Theories, Literacy
Vorster, Jo-Anne; Quinn, Lynn – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
In recent years there have been calls both for building the knowledge base of academic development (AD) and for systematic induction of newcomers to the field if AD is to advance as a professional and an academic field. Despite the importance and complexity of AD, induction of novice academic developers remains mostly informal and predominantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Higher Education, Novices
Filippakou, Ourania; Williams, Gareth – Open Review of Educational Research, 2014
The interest of higher education researchers in entrepreneurialism in European universities began in the late 1990s with the appearance of two path-breaking books: Sheila Slaughter and Larry Leslie on "Academic Capitalism" and Burton Clark on "Creating Entrepreneurial Universities." Since that time "entrepreneurial"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Entrepreneurship, Social Systems
Horne, Andre Leonard; du Plessis, Yvonne; Nkomo, Stella – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
This article examines the role of leadership in the development of academic talent in higher education from a social exchange and organizational support perspective. Drawing from a sample of academic staff at a large South African university, the study investigates the extent to which a quality leader-member exchange relationship versus a formal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Department Heads, Administrator Role
Schmaus, David; Wimmer, Randolph – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2013
While the landscape of postsecondary education in Alberta continues to expand and diversify, there seems to be very little written about the organization of postsecondary education in the province over the past 15 to 20 years (Wimmer & Schmaus, 2010). This paper provides an analysis of postsecondary education in Alberta over the past 15 to 20…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Public Policy
Mitchell, Toshiba L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study is to explore the slow development of online learning initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Specifically, the research has investigated the relationship between academic and executive-level administrators in a four-year private university and Roger's Theory of Diffusion as it relates to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Black Colleges, Educational Development, Technology Integration
Jones, Anna – International Journal for Academic Development, 2010
Language is an important way of presenting an identity, either individual or group. This paper explores the language used in the presentation of the identity of academic development. The study is based on an analysis of websites from academic development centres in the UK and Australia and outlines the public ways in which academic developers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Web Sites, Persuasive Discourse
Walker, Melanie; McLean, Monica; Dison, Arona; Peppin-Vaughan, Rosie – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
This paper reports on a research project investigating the role of universities in South Africa in contributing to poverty reduction through the quality of their professional education programmes. The focus here is on theorising and the early operationalisation of multi-layered, multi-dimensional transformation based on ideas from Amartya Sen's…
Descriptors: Poverty, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Public Service
