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Smith, Karen – International Journal for Academic Development, 2009
In an increasingly global higher education environment, many universities are taking their educational services overseas. One model of overseas provision is through transnational (offshore) education. Transnational teaching challenges the prevailing understanding of an academic role at every level. Transnational teachers are expected to work in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Professional Development, Teaching Experience
Pucci, Bruno – Comunicacoes, 2000
Uses a scene glimpsed in a university cafeteria (cafeteria workers listening intently to the story another worker is telling them) and a stroll through the campus to reflect on how much professors are storytellers. Finds that the work of teaching is very similar to narrating. (BT)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Narration, Reflective Teaching
de Oliveira, Vanderli Fava; Borges, Marcos Martins; Naveiro, Ricardo Manfredi – 1998
The goal of this paper is to reflect upon Engineering Education, starting from experiments that have been carried out at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), aiming to improve the learning process of the content of basic drawing disciplines concerned with graphic representation, which are subjects of the initial terms of the courses of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Design, Engineering Education, Engineering Graphics
Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education., 2002
Articles are divided into two sections. Section 1, "Research and Theory, includes: "The Influence of Pronunciation Instruction on the Pronunciation of English Word-Final Consonants by Brazilian Learners" (Roseanne Silveira); "Perceptions, Interactions and Immersion: A Cross-Comparative Case Study of African-American Students'…
Descriptors: Action Research, Attitude Change, Black Students, Communicative Competence (Languages)