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Ruwhiu, Diane; Staniland, Nimbus; Love, Tyron – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Indigenous academics are often faced with a balancing act between the danger and risk of critiquing the institutions within which they reside, and the duty or obligation they feel to do so. As Indigenous Maori academics located within three different business schools across Aotearoa New Zealand, our work in both research and teaching is often…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Indigenous Populations, Risk, Criticism
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Mertkan, Sefika; Bayrakli, Hatice – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
This article is about being and becoming a qualitative researcher in Turkey, a context with a distinctive quantitative tradition shaped by the post-positivist paradigm where qualitative research has not yet reached the mature stage it enjoys elsewhere. Exploring the challenges of swimming against the tide unattended and keeping going, it argues…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Researchers, Professional Identity, Qualitative Research
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Grellier, Jane – Higher Education Research and Development, 2013
Philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Felix Guattari's figuration of the rhizome describes structures that are non-hierarchical and open-ended. Rhizomatic analyses are increasingly being adopted in educational research to challenge traditional power structures, give voice to those previously unheard and open issues in messy but authentic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Power Structure, College Freshmen
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Dunne, Ciaran – Higher Education Research and Development, 2011
Although many academics and policymakers espouse the idea of an intercultural curriculum in principle, the practical implementation of this is problematic for several reasons. Firstly, the ambiguity and uncertainty that often surrounds key concepts complicates the articulation of cogent rationales and goals. Secondly, there may be no clear vision…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Articulation (Education), Figurative Language, Multicultural Education
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Hemer, Susan R. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
A great deal of literature in recent years has focused on the supervisory relationship, yet very little has been written about the nature or content of supervisory meetings, beyond commenting on the frequency and length of meetings. Through semi-structured interviews, informal discussions with colleagues and students, a critical review of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Meetings
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Barrow, Mark; Grant, Barbara – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
The nature of academic development in contemporary universities has been a recent focus in the literature. Highlighting the diversity of practices that exist under its name, "academic development" has been described by some as an ambiguous project and a fragmented field, while others suggest a more coherent project, pointing out a near…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational History, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study
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Boshier, Roger – Higher Education Research and Development, 2009
Advocates have difficulty convincing colleagues Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a worthwhile use of time and resources. This article highlights problems impeding SoTL. First, scholarship of teaching gets used as a synonym for other activities. Second, Boyer's definition was conceptually confused. Third, SoTL is difficult to…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Scholarship, Instruction, Learning