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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Teaching-Focused"”.
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Teaching-Focused Faculty and Their Pedagogical Practices in Middle and Upper-Level Engineering Courses
Teaching-focused faculty carry a substantial share of the undergraduate engineering teaching mission, particularly in advanced coursework, yet little is known about how they draw on professional knowledge and navigate institutional structures in research-focused contexts. To address this gap, my …
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Playing class: a case study of ludic pedagogy
… transforming traditional classroom content and teaching strategy into a "gamified" version through the use of popular gaming strategy, or, in other words, how a college course can be designed or redesigned to mimic ludic pedagogy, as well as the influence of this pedagogy on student performance …
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Championing Pedagogical Innovators: Supporting and Empowering Informal Leaders in Higher Education Teaching & Learning Spaces
… leaders—particularly contract, pretenure, and teaching-stream faculty—at a large Canadian research-intensive university (pseudonym: Scholar University). Although these educators are central to undergraduate teaching and student success, they often face systemic precarity, invisibility, and …
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DESIGNING A CURRICULUM FOR DIFFICULT HISTORY: TEACHERS, MUSEUM WORKERS, AND WAR PHOTOJOURNALISM
… society. As interdisciplinary community teaching spaces, museums can serve as a natural nexus for socially engaged cross-disciplinary teaching and learning, fostering and supporting the investigation of questions about how to best understand, curate, and educate around difficult …
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Exploring academic perspectives on facilitating study abroad uptake for widening participation students: A pre- and post-1992 university comparative analysis
… research-intensive institution and a post-1992 teaching-focused provider – to compare their outreach interventions and identify the challenges of making study abroad more accessible. Findings revealed that cost and confidence were cited as the main deterrents to study abroad, with academics at …
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Exploring the beliefs and practices of first year teachers of literacy in New Zealand primary schools
The teaching of literacy presents ongoing and complex challenges for first-year teachers at the primary level as they strive to address the diverse social and cultural backgrounds of their students, the requirements of educational policy and the demands of national assessment regimes. This journey …