ERIC Number: EJ1163917
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Publication Date: 2017-Oct
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Leading the Flying Faculty: What Do Leaders of Doctoral Programmes Need to Know?
Poultney, Val
Management in Education, v31 n4 p159-165 Oct 2017
This article employs a reflexive methodology to critically examine the opportunities and challenges raised for a leader of a UK EdD programme when the home institution undertakes short periods of intensive teaching abroad--a model known as "flying faculty". The University of Derby had, until 2010-11, a large institutional partnership with Israel via its own Inter-College and UK EdD programme. Academics from the UK made regular trips abroad to teach and tutor doctoral students, working alongside an Israel-based professor. This article identifies two key leadership themes arising from this type of work. The first is related to an academic team working abroad under pressure to deliver an intensive course in a short time period. The second theme looks at issues of sustainability of an EdD programme in this context, namely the maintenance of productive working relationships with the local professor and student cohorts over distance and protracted time of study.
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Sustainability, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Administrator Attitudes, Faculty Mobility, Teamwork, Partnerships in Education, International Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Graduate Students, Program Administration, Education Majors
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom; Israel
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