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Lubbe, Ilse – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The teaching-research "nexus" has been an area of historic and ongoing controversy within universities and discussions into the nexus between teaching and research continues to expand. Within the accounting discipline, where new knowledge is perceived to be located "outside" the university, academics struggle to describe and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, College Faculty, Professional Personnel
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Lai, Kwok-Wing – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper documents a study investigating co-construction of knowledge by doctoral students in an online learning community. In this study 12 students participated in the coursework and thesis proposal development stages of a doctoral program offered by a research-intensive university in New Zealand. Socio-cultural and social constructivist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs
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Wellington, Jerry – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
The question of what a doctorate is has been looked at before. The author argues that the issue of "doctorateness" is a recurring debate which needs to kept alive and revisited regularly. The aim of this article is to suggest five different areas or arenas in which the question can be addressed, forming a framework which can perhaps be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Degrees, Creativity
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Wilhelmsson, Niklas; Dahlgren, Lars Owe; Hult, Hakan; Josephson, Anna – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
In search for the nature of understanding of basic science in a clinical context, eight medical students were interviewed, with a focus on their view of the discipline of anatomy, in their fourth year of study. Interviews were semi-structured and took place just after the students had finished their surgery rotations. Phenomenographic analysis was…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Surgery, Anatomy, Learning Processes
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Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth; Militello, Matthew; Piert, Joyce – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
This study reports on experiences of doctoral students in educational administration at a time when the effectiveness of programs preparing practitioners and academics in this field are being questioned. Concerns related to how students in educational administration developed knowledge about research and identity as researchers were closely…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Educational Administration, Administrator Education
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Shreeve, Alison – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
This article reports on a study which aimed to understand how tutors, who also described themselves as creative practitioners, experienced the relationship between practice and teaching. In some disciplines this relationship has been shown to be problematic, but few explanations are given to account for this. A phenomenographic approach to…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Teaching Methods, Correlation, Skill Development