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Jakeman, Rick C.; Henderson, Markesha M.; Howard, Lionel C. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
This article presents a critical reflection on how we, instructors of a graduate-level course in higher education administration, sought to integrate theoretical and subject-matter content and research methodology. Our reflection, guided by autoethnography and teacher reflection, challenged both our assumptions about curriculum design and our…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Graduate Study, Reflection, Reflective Teaching
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Ryan, Mary – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
Reflective skills are widely regarded as a means of improving students' lifelong learning and professional practice in higher education (Rogers 2001). While the value of reflective practice is widely accepted in educational circles, a critical issue is that reflective writing is complex, and has high rhetorical demands, making it difficult to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reflective Teaching, Hermeneutics, Semantics
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Mackay, Margaret; Tymon, Alex – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
This paper explores the cumulative reflections of lecturers examining their tacit assumptions of teaching practice. Despite extensive literature on the educational value of reflection, there is less visible research on teachers assessing their own reflective thinking. This longitudinal interpretive study uses Larrivee's assessment framework with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Ryan, Mary – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
Despite the common use of the term reflection in higher education assessment tasks, learners are not often taught "how" to communicate their disciplinary knowledge through reflection. This paper argues that students can and should be taught how to reflect in deep and transformative ways. It highlights the reflexive pedagogical balancing…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Educational Strategies, Educational Change, College Faculty
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Bell, Amani; Mladenovic, Rosina; Segara, Reuben – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
Effective self-reflection is a key component of excellent teaching. We describe the types of self-reflection identified in tutors' reflective statements following a peer observation of teaching exercise. We used an adapted version of the categories developed by Grushka, McLeod and Reynolds in 2005 to code text from 20 written statements as…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Observation, Tutors, Reflective Teaching
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Trede, Franziska; Smith, Megan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
Reflective practice in practice settings can enhance practice knowledge, self-assessment and lifelong learning, develop future practice capability and professional identity, and critically appraise practice traditions rather than reproduce them. The inherent power imbalance between student and educator runs the risk for the reflective practice…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Reflective Teaching, Clinical Experience, Transformative Learning