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John Canning

Researcher at University of Brighton

Publications -  34
Citations -  271

John Canning is an academic researcher from University of Brighton. The author has contributed to research in topics: Higher education & Foreign language. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 34 publications receiving 250 citations. Previous affiliations of John Canning include University of Southampton.

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Conceptualising Student Voice in UK Higher Education: Four Theoretical Lenses.

TL;DR: In this paper, four possible theoretical lenses (or frameworks) through which student voice can be analysed, enabling an exploration of the vested interests and power relations entailed, are outlined.
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Pedagogy as a discipline: emergence, sustainability and professionalisation

TL;DR: The authors argue that pedagogy is developing the characteristics of a discipline, with its own methodologies, sense of community, and power dynamics, and call for those working in this discipline to develop and promote critical pedagogies that seek to challenge existing safe systems.
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Disciplinarity: a barrier to quality assurance? The UK experience of area studies

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conclude that quality assurance in higher education needs to develop a greater sensitivity to the disciplinary nature of the identity of academics, whilst at the same time assessing teaching and learning from a perspective that reflects the multidisciplinary experience of the student, rather than the disciplinary identity of teaching staff.
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The UK Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) as an illustration of Baudrillard’s hyperreality

TL;DR: The authors argue that the TEF is a hyperreal simulacrum, a sign which has no traceable genealogy to the practice of learning and teaching, and argue that it cannot be traced back to the real world.