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Curriculum Governance in the Professions: Where Is the Locus of Control for Decision-Making?
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Klassen, Mike – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Suellen Shay's work on higher education curricula foregrounds the importance of professional curricula which face inwards to disciplines and outwards to practice. This paper builds on her framing of professional curricula, distinctive in the differentiated knowledge base and the social relations which legitimate them. I extend Shay's work deeper…
Descriptors: Governance, Locus of Control, Decision Making, College Curriculum
Developing the Higher Education Curriculum: Research-Based Education in Practice
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Carnell, Brent, Ed.; Fung, Dilly, Ed. – UCL Press, 2017
A complementary volume to Dilly Fung's "A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education" (2017) [see ED613384], this book explores 'research-based education' as applied in practice within the higher education sector. A collection of 15 chapters followed by illustrative vignettes, it showcases approaches to engaging students actively with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinary Approach
Insights into Accounting Education in a COVID-19 World
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Sangster, Alan, Ed.; Stoner, Greg, Ed.; Flood, Barbara, Ed. – Accounting Education, 2020
This paper presents a compilation of personal reflections from 66 contributors on the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 in accounting education in 45 different countries around the world. It reveals a commonality of issues, and a variability in responses, many positive outcomes, including the creation of opportunities to realign learning and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Researching Doctoral Pedagogy Close up: Design and Action in Two Doctoral Programmes
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Danby, Susan; Lee, Alison – Australian Universities' Review, 2012
With growing international interest in diversifying sites for pedagogical work within the doctorate, doctoral programmes of different kinds are being developed in different disciplinary, institutional and national settings. However, little is known about how the pedagogical work of these programmes is designed and enacted, and with what effects.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Social Action, Doctoral Programs
Different Disciplines, Different Transitions
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Wood, Leigh; Solomonides, Ian – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2008
There is not just one mathematics taught at university level, nor is there one group of students. Mathematics is taught differently depending on the discipline and the perceived background of the student. There is engineering mathematics for the students heading towards engineering degrees, life science mathematics for those heading towards…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Intellectual Disciplines, Education Work Relationship, Relevance (Education)
Private Universities and Public Funding: Models and Business Plans. Policy Commentary
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King, Roger – Universities UK, 2008
The growth of private higher education has come as a surprise to most governments, which have tried to catch up in their regulatory and funding policymaking. In China, Malaysia and South Africa they have given legal recognition to previously disallowed private higher education and this has helped to fuel its subsequent growth. Some governments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Proprietary Schools, Models