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Direct linkYallew, Addisalem Tebikew; Dipitso, Paul Othusitse – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
This article is written with the recognition that, as higher education studies evolve as a multidisciplinary area of inquiry, there is a need to reflect on the theoretical and practical concerns emerging from conducting higher education research. This is especially the case for early-career researchers who enter this relatively new field of study.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Research, Field Studies
Download full textShawa, Lester Brian – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2020
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) remains a mostly elusive notion. For universities to genuinely contribute to SoTL, they must delineate clear parameters of engagement. For example, while some engage SoTL at the academic level, others examine it from an institutional policy perspective. Others view it from national and international…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Reflective Teaching, Educational Research, College Instruction
McKenna, Sioux; Quinn, Lynn; Vorster, Jo-Anne – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
The PhD is the highest formal qualification and signifies a scholar's rite of passage as a legitimate contributor of new knowledge in a field. Examiner reports make claims about what is legitimate in a thesis and what is not and thus articulate the organising principles through which participation in a field is measured. The authors analysed 39…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Doctoral Dissertations, Examiners, Foreign Countries
Paxton, Moragh – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
Academic literacies research has been identified as an emerging but significant field in higher education. This article extends the discussions around methodology in academic literacies research by drawing on the current text and context debates in sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography. It uses illustrations from a recent academic literacies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study, Higher Education, Educational Research
Peer reviewedHay, D. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2000
Discusses the complexity facing South African researchers in higher education as they try to overcome the heritage of the old, fragmented higher education system. Necessary paradigm shifts are identified, as are focus areas for improving the quality of South African higher education research at both national and institutional levels. (DB)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Southern Education Foundation, Atlanta, GA. – 1996
This annual report defines three broad areas in which the Southern Education Foundation supports research. The first looks to what kinds of teachers will be needed in the future; the second asks how our best thinking can be translated into effective action; and the third asks how seamless education can be. Programs subsumed under education and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Area Studies, Black Colleges
