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Social Cartographies as Performative Devices in Research on Higher Education
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de Oliveira Andreotti, Vanessa; Stein, Sharon; Pashby, Karen; Nicolson, Michelle – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
In this article, we review social cartography as a methodological approach to map and collectively engage diverse perspectives within the study of higher education. We illustrate the uses of this approach by drawing on our own experiences engaging it as part of an international research project about the effects of the convergence of globalization…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Cartography, Maps
Towards Practical Reflexivity in Online Discussion Groups
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Sarja, Anneli; Janhonen, Sirpa; Havukainen, Pirjo; Vesterinen, Anne – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
This paper continues the discussion about student-driven, interactive learning activities in higher education. Using object-oriented activity theory, the article explores the relational aspects of reflexive practice as demonstrated in five online discussions groups to develop students' conceptual understanding. The purpose of the research is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Reflection
"I Wish I Had a Crystal Ball": Discourses and Potentials for Developing Academic Supervising
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Vehviläinen, Sanna; Löfström, Erika – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Academic supervision of PhD dissertations and master's theses has traditionally been conceptualised as the pedagogy of the dyadic relationship between master and apprentice. Recently, researchers have argued for a more systemic approach. Yet, many communities lack practices for sharing the pedagogical responsibility of supervision. Consequently,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Supervision, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Doctoral Dissertations
Boundary Work and Power in the Controversy over Therapeutic Touch in Finnish Nursing Science
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Vuolanto, Pia – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2015
The boundary work approach has been established as one of the main ways to study controversies in science. However, it has been proposed that it does not meet the power dynamics of the scientific field sufficiently. This article concentrates on the intertwining of boundary work and power. It combines the boundary work approach developed by Thomas…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nursing Education, Nursing Students, Power Structure
Tribes and Territories in the 21st Century: Rethinking the Significance of Disciplines in Higher Education. International Studies in Higher Education
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Trowler, Paul, Ed.; Saunders, Murray, Ed.; Bamber, Veronica, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
The "tribes and territories" metaphor for the cultures of academic disciplines and their roots in different knowledge characteristics has been used by those interested in university life and work since the early 1990s. This book draws together research, data and theory to show how higher education has gone through major change since then…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Differences, Higher Education, Social Theories
Methodological Reflections: Supervisory Discourses and Practice-Based Learning
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Sarja, Anneli; Janhonen, Sirpa – Teaching in Higher Education, 2009
The concept of dialogue is often examined apart from the social and historical context in which it is embedded. This paper identifies how dialogue between a superior and a subordinate generates a reorganisation of situated knowledge in the education and training of nurse teachers. We created an analytic method of supervisory discourse founded on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities, Discourse Modes