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2. Is non-subject based research training a ‘waste of time’, good only for the development of professional skills? An academic literacies perspective.
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Bastalich, Wendy, Behrend, Monica, and Bloomfield, Robert
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REPORT writing ,REPORT writing education in universities & colleges ,RESEARCH papers (Students) ,ACADEMIC discourse ,SCHOLARLY method ,COLLEGE teaching ,ADULTS ,HIGHER education ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
In recent years, contentiously for some, universities have developed generalist skills lists and associated curricula in response to government demand for more ‘employment-ready’ graduates. Such training usually includes writing and communication. In Australia and the UK, guidelines designed to support the development of skills programmes describe research training as ‘generic skills’ and/or ‘discipline-based’. This framing effectively precludes a discussion of academic literacies perspectives on curriculum development and pedagogy for research training. In a review of some key insights from academic literacies and consideration of their implications for research training, the article discusses why academic literacies are not skills-based, strictly generic or informed by the students' discipline. The article suggests a reframing of the terms of research skills discussion to accommodate academic literacies perspectives. This would involve recognition of curriculum and pedagogy that aims to introduce the complex and diverse written genres, research purposes, rhetorical conventions, language functions and cultural norms that students are working with, an approach supportive of both effective student writing and subject learning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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3. Curriculum reform in higher education: a contested space.
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Shay, Suellen
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CURRICULUM change ,EDUCATIONAL change ,EDUCATION & society ,COLLEGE curriculum ,EDUCATIONAL equalization ,LEGITIMATION (Sociology) ,ADULTS ,HIGHER education ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
Drawing on the theoretical and analytical tools from the sociology of education, in particular the work of Basil Bernstein and Karl Maton, the paper explores the tensions within curriculum reform discourses and how these tensions play out in different global contexts. The analysis focuses on two curriculum reform policies – Hong Kong and South Africa. On the surface the policies appear to be addressing a similar problem of inadequate schooling systems and proposing a similar solution, the restructuring of the undergraduate degree from three to four years. Drawing on the principles of temporality and specialization from Legitimation Code Theory, the analysis shows that the underlying logic for these reforms is very different. A comparison of these different logics provides insight into the highly contested space of curriculum reform and the implications for addressing inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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4. Practice, problems and power in ‘internationalisation at home’: critical reflections on recent research evidence.
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Harrison, Neil
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EDUCATION & globalization ,GROUP work in education ,CURRICULUM planning (Higher education) ,TEACHING methods ,HOMOPHILY theory (Communication) ,FOREIGN students ,ENGLISH language ,ADULTS ,HIGHER education ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
In a period when international flows of higher education students are rapidly increasing and diversifying, this paper reviews recent research evidence about the experiences of ‘home’ students – those who are not mobile and study in their home nation. This is situated within the concept of ‘internationalisation at home’, which asserts that these students should also receive an international educational experience: through interaction with international students, curriculum development and new pedagogic approaches. However, the evidence to date suggests that this is considerably more problematic than might be imagined. For example, home students across the world are often found to resist intercultural group work and generally to avoid contact with their international peers, leading to concerns about unequal access to transformative experiences and powerful knowledge. The conflict between ‘global worker’ and ‘global citizen’ approaches to internationalisation is discussed, as well as the increasingly hegemonic role of English. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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5. Strategies for critiquing global citizenry: undergraduate research as a possible vehicle.
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Henderson, Juliet
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UNDERGRADUATES ,WORLD citizenship ,HIGHER education ,POSTSECONDARY education ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,COLLEGE students ,ADULTS - Abstract
Even as an increasing number of universities commit to producing graduates possessing the attributes of ‘a global citizen’, discussions between academics suggest it is common practice to design programme outcomes which include the attribute of global citizenship without advancing discussion as to ways of embedding them in deeper learning. This presents a potential risk of defaulting to ‘empty rhetoric’ when trying to meet institutional agendas relating to graduate attributes. To address this issue, this paper opens up discussion about how to assess global citizenship within and across disciplines by offering an example of a four-step method. To support a further goal of framing global citizenship in contemporary Higher Education Institutions as an object of pedagogic and social theory, emergent findings of a discourse of interculturality in student work are presented. Findings serve to identify the ways in which students articulate the contested concept of interculturality, a key attribute of the ‘global citizen’. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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6. Mandatory trialling of support services by international students: what they choose and how they reflect.
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Fenton-Smith, Ben and Michael, Rowan
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FOREIGN students ,SUPPORT services (Education) ,ACADEMIC language ,STUDY skills ,ADULTS ,HIGHER education ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
This paper evaluates a strategy to promote the uptake of support services by international students (ISs) at an Australian university. As part of their assessment, ISs completed a so-called ‘University Service Reflection Task’ (USRT) in a core first-year course. To complete the USRT, all ISs accessed one support service (e.g. language consultation, study skills workshop, careers guidance), then submitted a written reflection about the experience. Using responses to a questionnaire by 155 participants, the researchers investigated which services ISs attended for the USRT and patterns of prior attendance. Students' perspectives were explored by analysing 73 reflective essays. The results showed that two-thirds of the students participated in a service for the first time in order to complete the USRT and favoured services that had closest application to their coursework. Students expressed positive feelings about their experiences and reported learning gains, particularly in the areas of study skills and development of academic language. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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7. Global citizenship, sojourning students and campus communities.
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Killick, David
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STUDENTS ,WORLD citizenship ,LEARNING ,EDUCATION ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,TEACHING ,HIGHER education ,ADULTS - Abstract
The paper argues for situating today's students as ‘global citizens’, emphasisingself-in-the-worldidentity overact-in-the-worldagency. It draws upon a three-year investigation into the lived-experience of sojourning UK undergraduate students, which surfaced examples of significant learning among new communities of practice. Their experiences of crossing learning thresholds is presented as change to the lifeworld, and argued to have enhanced their sense ofself-in-the-world. Because primary sites of learning identified within the narratives were within inter-subjective encounters outside the host culture and beyond what was planned within their mobility programmes, I suggest that similar learning might be enabled among diverse campus communities at home. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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8. Relation of gender, course enrollment, and grades to distinct forms of academic dishonesty.
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Hensley, L.C., Kirkpatrick, K.M., and Burgoon, J.M.
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COLLEGE enrollment ,STUDENT cheating ,COLLEGE students ,PLAGIARISM -- Universities & colleges ,HIGHER education ,ADULTS ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
A thorough understanding of academic dishonesty and the students who engage in it is necessary to develop appropriate policies and educational interventions to discourage such actions. The present study examines the frequency of academic dishonesty and the characteristics (i.e. gender, course enrollment, and grades) of students who engage in distinct forms of the behavior by surveying undergraduates at a large public university in the USA. Of 292 students, 57.19% reported some form of academic dishonesty in the previous six months, with cheating on a test being the most frequent form (51.71%). Men and students in a study strategies course had a significantly higher report rate for both plagiarism and making false excuses in comparison to women and students in a science course, respectively. Low grades corresponded with high rates of academic dishonesty, specifically in terms of having provided false excuses. Implications for college teaching settings are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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9. Finding voice: the higher education experiences of students from diverse backgrounds.
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Testa, Doris and Egan, Ronnie
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UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,MINORITY college students ,DIVERSITY in education ,SOCIAL justice ,EQUALITY ,SOCIAL work students ,STUDENT engagement ,HIGHER education ,ADULTS ,SOCIAL conditions of students - Abstract
Diversity in the student body, particularly the inclusion of disadvantaged groups, has been incorporated into the discourse of inclusive education, with social justice and equality now part of the agenda. However, the conflation of diversity with equality potentially obscures some structural elements of the contemporary university system. This research reports on the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) social work students and their experiences and maps the views of CALD student's engagement with the social work course. Overall data indicated that for CALD students to successfully engage with their studies, social work programmes must address the personal, cultural and political dislocation that CALD students experience while undertaking their studies [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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10. Imaging, imagining knowledge in higher education curricula: new visions and troubled thresholds.
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Parker, Jan
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CURRICULUM ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,CURRICULUM planning (Higher education) ,OPEN learning ,ADULTS ,HIGHER education - Abstract
It is urgent that we re-examine models of knowledge and knowledge-making within the university, at this time of open learning and deregulated multi-million dollar and euro open science hubs and portals. For otherwise, we are bound into ‘crude’ instrumentalism, ‘delivering’ ‘knowledge packets’ rather than seeing our curricula as potentially transformative (Head in the Clouds and Feet on the Ground.http://www.srhe.ac.uk/events/details.asp?EID=54). This article reflects on two issue-raising colloquia which challenged and reimagined our models of disciplinary knowledge and curricula design: the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE) Theory Network ‘New Visions’ symposium and the 4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference. Both were linked by a pre-occupation with the visualisation and modelling of knowledge and university knowledge-making: the first looking to Barnett's ‘Structuring Knowledge in an Age of Non-Structure’ and Peters ‘Open Science Economy’ and the second concerned with academic and, now, professional, ‘threshold concepts’; both challenged the way we imagine, and image, knowledge and its incorporation and creation in university curricula. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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11. Developing grass roots writing resources: a novel approach to writing within the social work discipline.
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Kilgore, Christopher D., Cronley, Courtney, and Amey, Beth
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SOCIAL sciences education in universities & colleges ,LANGUAGE arts (Higher) ,SOCIAL work education ,HIGHER education ,ADULTS ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
In this case study, we report on the development of a writing-specialist position, the ‘Writing Resource Coordinator (WRC)’, in a school of social work at a large state university in the southern USA. Such programs are facing increasing budgetary pressures at the same time as their growing enrollments strain available resources. Students who arrive under-prepared or un-acculturated to the discipline often suffer high writing-related anxiety, putting them at risk for low performance, or dropping out altogether. The WRC provides discipline-specific ‘grass roots’ writing assistance to the most at-risk students through a program aimed at both students and faculty, providing a two-pronged service strategy including: (a) individual consultations and (b) group-oriented seminars and workshops. We describe the implementation of this resource and offer recommendations for improving upon and adopting this approach in social science programs at comparable institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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12. Chinese students making sense of problem-based learning and Western teaching – pitfalls and coping strategies.
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Gram, Malene, Jæger, Kirsten, Liu, Junyang, Qing, Li, and Wu, Xiangying
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CHINESE students in foreign countries ,PROBLEM-based learning ,ACTIVE learning ,CRITICAL thinking ,FOREIGN study ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,HIGHER education ,ADULTS - Abstract
Culturally different imaginations of student and teacher roles, incongruent perceptions of academic standards, and diverging conceptualizations of learning may cause ‘difficult times’ for institutions and individual learners involved in international education. Universities practicing alternative approaches to teaching and learning, for example problem-based learning (PBL), may face even larger challenges because of the unfamiliarity of international students with such approaches. This study explores the difficult times experienced by Chinese students in a PBL setting at a Danish University. The main result of the study is an increased understanding of these students’ remarkable ‘survival’ skills, coping strategies, and learning outcomes gained from the challenging immersion in a Danish PBL environment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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