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Agency and structure in academic development practices: are we liberating academic teachers or are we part of a machinery supressing them?
Torgny Roxå,Katarina Mårtensson +1 more
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In this paper, the sources of power in higher education are described and put into the context of values, ideologies, and policies governing higher education of today, with the hope that readers will be inspired to problematise their own academic development practices and to reclaim a phase in the history of the profession where members displayed more of a political awareness.Abstract:
This text taps into an ongoing discussion about academic development. It challenges an image of academic development as precarious and liminal and explores academic development as powerful. Sources of power are described and put into the context of values, ideologies, and policies governing higher education of today. It is our hope that readers will be inspired to problematise their own academic development practices and to reclaim a phase in the history of the profession where members displayed more of a political awareness.read more
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Thinking fast and slow.
TL;DR: Prospect Theory led cognitive psychology in a new direction that began to uncover other human biases in thinking that are probably not learned but are part of the authors' brain’s wiring.
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Sense of connection, identity and academic success in distance education: sociologically exploring online learning environments
Angela T. Ragusa,Andrea Crampton +1 more
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Enhancing outcomes and reducing inhibitors to the engagement of students and staff in learning and teaching partnerships: implications for academic development
Kelly E. Matthews,Lucy Mercer-Mapstone,Sam Lucie Dvorakova,Sam Lucie Dvorakova,Anita Acai,Alison Cook-Sather,Peter Felten,Michael J Healey,Ruth L. Healey,Elizabeth Marquis +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend a previous systematic review of the partnership literature by presenting an analysis and discussion of the positive and negative outcomes of partnership, and the inhibitors to partnership, including the importance of academic developers supporting: the relational processes of partnership; institutional or structural change to address resistance; and the potential of partnership to make institutions more equitable and empowering spaces.
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Facilitating agency: the change laboratory as an intervention for collaborative sustainable development in higher education
Claire Englund,Linda Price +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the results of a study indicate that teachers need the agency to act proactively to initiate and steer changes to meet their needs to cope with the rapidly changing Higher Education climate.
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