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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Academic studies in higher education"”.
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Student Voice in Higher Education: Students' and Tutors' Perceptions of its Utilisation and Purpose
This study explores and examines the perceptions of students and tutors of the utilisation and purpose of student voice in higher education. It is conducted in a higher education department within a further education college. Literature form a range of secondary sources explores how student voice …
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'Towards meaningful learning: A theory for improved assessment in higher education
This thesis aims to explore how student learning in higher education may be improved. It builds upon research which links perception of assessment tasks to approaches to learning. The thesis therefore investigates how messages about assessment are conveyed by staff and how students' interpret them. …
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Adaptive-Positive vs. Maladaptive-Negative Structures and Processes in Learning: Towards the Comprehensive Model of Academic Performance
… an empirical foundation suitable for designing educational interventions and programmes aiming to improve students' learning. In order to achieve this, a series of studies was conducted that supported the development and test of a comprehensive, chained mediation model of academic …
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“My Stomach Churns”: Belonging and Strategies for Belonging for BME Students in a White University
Student engagement and more recently belonging are concepts that have been used to explain awarding gaps for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) students. However, Trowler (2010) asserts that much of the student engagement literature is essentialist in nature and treats minority groups as homogeneous. …
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A team coaching model for developing criticality in undergraduate students
This study investigates the implementation of a team coaching model in undergraduate education to facilitate critical dialogue and develop criticality in student-team work. It explored three unconnected areas: criticality, critical dialogue and team coaching. The paucity of studies in critical …
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An exploration of students from the African diaspora negotiating academic literacies
… diasporic connections, an under-researched group in UK HE. Building on the traditions of ideological and ethnographic approaches to academic literacies research, the thesis highlights power relations involved in a range of life experiences, social practices and institutional power relations. The …
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Expectations and Realisations: Experiences of mature students returning to study in an institution of public sector Higher Education
This interactionist study follows a group of adults, who, after a break in their formal education, return to study in an institution of public sector higher education. It is based on a series of interviews, before and during the first year of their courses to examine their subjective …
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Different worlds: An exploration of university teaching staff's perceptions of their own training and development
This study focused on an apparent paradox. Teaching staff within the University, who might be expected to value continuous learning and professional development, tend not to participate in in-house training and development activities organised for University staff. Ironically, the behaviour of …
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The Experience of Teaching in Art, Design and Communication
… to explore conceptions of and approaches to teaching situated within the context of practice-based teachers of art, design and communication. This thesis explores conceptions of teaching held by academics in departments of art, design and communication and explores links between those conceptions …
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An exploration of how creative arts lecturers in higher education talk about reflecting on their teaching
… literature on the concept of reflective teaching and the importance of reflective practice for developing as a teacher in higher education. However, few studies have explored the content and premise for reflection - how and what lecturers reflect upon in relation to their local contexts for …
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Constructing a Reflective Site: Practice between art and pedagogy in the art school
Constructing a Reflective Site is a fine art practice-based research project, which considers the relationship between art practice and teaching. It does this through a critical examination of reflection in art, in pedagogy and in philosophy. Contemporary art forms, like relational practice, …