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Ross, Karen; Call-Cummings, Meagan – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2020
Across our combined 15 years of experience as methodologists and research methodology instructors, we have found that the concept of 'failure' is only a small portion of methodological literature and is similarly missing from scholarship on teaching and learning social science research methodology. We define failure in terms of our inability as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Research Methodology, Failure, Social Science Research
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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
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Gilardi, Silvia; Lozza, Edoardo – Innovative Higher Education, 2009
Innovative strategies in inquiry-based learning are recognized as improving the quality of higher education learning, but there is a need to explore whether and how these strategies promote the development of professional identity among undergraduates. In this article we describe an inquiry-based course, situated in a European context, which is…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Inquiry, Active Learning, Professional Development