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Smith, Mark – School Science Review, 2012
This article describes how the Science Department at Shoeburyness High School in Essex introduced a space-themed year 8 (ages 12-13) science course to increase student engagement and motivation. As well as discussing the rationale for such curriculum change, it describes the processes of planning and resourcing the course, and the barriers that…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Curriculum Development, Science Curriculum, Science Departments
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Sutherland, John – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
In this article Sutherland surveys over the period of the last 40 years (the length of an average full academic career) the changes which have occurred to the departmental structures and procedures in the teaching of and research into English Literature in British universities. He perceives a marginalization of the English department in the…
Descriptors: English Departments, English Literature, Administrative Organization, Educational Change
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Billington, Josie; Sperlinger, Tom – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
This article explores the question of where literary study happens through reflection on two case studies. The article examines projects within two UK English departments, which were designed to allow students of literature to engage with local communities as part of their studies. The implications of this work are considered for curriculum…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Curriculum Design, English Departments, Foreign Countries
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Butcher, John; Schaber, Friedemann – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
This article reports research into undergraduate design learning through an off-campus partnership. The Sorrell Foundation's Joinedupdesign for Academies programme involved partnerships between university design departments, "failing" 11-18 schools and professional designers, in the context of a funding commitment to rebuild/renew school…
Descriptors: Design, Undergraduate Students, Departments, Partnerships in Education
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McLean, Monica; Abbas, Andrea; Ashwin, Paul – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
This paper illustrates how critical use of Basil Bernstein's theory illuminates the mechanisms by which university knowledge, curriculum and pedagogy both reproduce and interrupt social inequalities. To this end, empirical examples are selected from the findings of the ESRC-funded project "Pedagogic Quality and Inequality in University First…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Social Theories, Higher Education, Educational Attainment
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Bak, Ozlem – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore a department in a UK higher education (HE) institute based on Senge's five characteristics of learning organizations. Design/methodology/approach: In this study, a case study method was utilized. The case study entailed two lines of enquiry: a questionnaire, which was distributed to a UK…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Organizational Culture
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Chiang, Kuang-Hsu – European Journal of Education, 2012
The evidence about the relationship between research and teaching at the level of doctoral education is far from conclusive. The focus of this study is to examine how teaching and research are related at doctoral level, especially when students' voices are heard, in two contrasting higher education systems--France and the UK. Models from Schimank…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Instruction, Questionnaires, Student Research
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Floyd, Alan; Dimmock, Clive – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
This study investigates the experiences of academics who became department heads in a post-1992 UK university and explores the influence that being in the position has on their planned future academic career. Drawing on life history interviews undertaken with 17 male and female heads of department, the paper constitutes an in-depth study of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Careers, Department Heads
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Weissmann, Elke – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
This article examines the student experience for a particular cohort, namely the joint honours students, at a post-1992 university in the United Kingdom. These students are enrolled in degree courses that combine two subjects at one university. Little attention has so far been given to such students whose experience is decidedly different from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Interviews, Questionnaires
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Vajoczki, Susan; Biegas, Tamara C.; Crenshaw, Melody; Healey, Ruth L.; Osayomi, Tolulope; Bradford, Michael; Monk, Janice – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2011
This paper provides a review of the practices and tensions informing approaches to professional development for early career academic geographers who are teaching in higher education. We offer examples from Britain, Canada, Nigeria and the USA. The tensions include: institutional and departmental cultures; models that offer generic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Geography
McMurray, Isabella; Roberts, Pat; Robertson, Ian; Teoh, Kevin – Psychology Teaching Review, 2011
Within the UK, traditional subject-specific areas are increasingly being complemented by the provision of opportunities to foster students' personal development planning as an aide to support their future employment and lifelong learning. This paper describes an action research project which examined employability skills within a psychology…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Research Projects, Action Research, Focus Groups
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Douglas, Alaster Scott – Research Papers in Education, 2012
This paper makes the claim that student teachers' learning depends a great deal on the individual school department where they are working, its social practices and the relationships of the teachers involved in initial teacher education (ITE). The paper considers how using a Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) lens to view data generated on…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Student Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Learning Activities
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Dillon, Justin; Huang, Jing – School Science Review, 2010
In this article we take a critical look at education for sustainable development (ESD), which is a more contested idea than policy makers might have us believe. After a brief examination of the history of the term, we look at the recent Ofsted report into how it is being implemented (or not) in UK schools. We examine why it is a contested term and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational History, Environmental Education, Science Departments
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Mercer, Justine – International Journal of Educational Management, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of new managerialism on junior academic-managers (defined as those having informal leadership or management roles below the level of head of department). It aims to discover: whether junior academic-managers experience the same tensions as Heads of Department; whether distributed…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Administrators, Department Heads, College Faculty
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May, Keith – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
This is a personal account of the work of the Manpower Services Commission (MSC) in the 1980s and early 1990s. The contribution of the MSC, The Department of Employment and the Learning Technology Unit is not widely understood and appreciated. During that period, it was one of the major agencies for encouraging and funding the use of…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Departments, Educational Technology, Financial Support
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