Browsing Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (Scholarly Articles) by Title
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A careful approach to digital scholarship
(Hybrid Pedagogy, 2015-07-14)For a lot of reasons, the types of learning and knowledge valued in our world are diversifying. Networked participatory scholarship, which is increasingly carried out on social media platforms such as Twitter, provides ... -
Challenging lifelong learning policy discourse: Where is structure in agency in narrative-based research?
(2007)Can adult educational research on learning and identity counter the individualising of neoliberal government policy that seeks to constrain educational choices to those that contribute to government economic agendas? ... -
The Contradictions of Policy and Practice: Creativity in Higher Education
(London Review of Education (Taylor & Francis), 2012-07)Whilst much of the rhetoric of current educational policy champions creativity and innovation, structural reforms and new management practices in higher education run counter to the known conditions under which creativity ... -
Creativity in Education: challenging the assumptions
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-06-25)The creative process is mysterious, intriguing and elusive. The above quote from celebrated Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami evokes an other-wordliness, a dream-like state, an escape from reality that many other creative ... -
An ethical commitment: responsibility, cosmopolitanism and care in the internationalised university
(Routledge, 2013-10)The internationalization of higher education has decisively moved from being a scholarly tradition of mobility across borders to an almost purely economic concern. This is a trend that is most pronounced in countries such ... -
Exploring the Unknown: Levinas and International Students in English Higher Education
(Taylor and Francis, 2009)This article will start with a description of a small, pedagogic event: a snippet of conversation recorded in a classroom as part of a research project on working in groups with postgraduate students. I will use these few ... -
Forum Critical Thinking: Symposium on the Future of Universities: Introduction
(Sage, 2010)This introduction is for a special forum with contributions from the Galway Symposium on Critical Thinking: the Future of Universities. -
The Galway Symposium on Design for Learning: curriculum and assessment in higher education (Review Essay)
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-06-14)The higher education (HE) system in Ireland, in common with many systems around the world, is facing a period of uncertainty. In the current economic climate, the seven universities in Ireland - plus the approximately 20 ... -
‘Homeliness meant having the fucking vacuum cleaner out’: the gendered labour of maintaining conference communities
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-24)This article extends examinations of the gendered nature of care and service in academia, with a particular focus on the labour of maintaining conference communities. Utilising empirical data from a cultural history of the ... -
Irish Higher Education and the Knowledge Economy
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Juggling competing activities: academic staff as doctoral candidates
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019-11-11)This article explores the experiences of a group of established academic staff in New Zealand and the UK, as they undertake a doctorate in their home institutions. Our interest is in how individuals negotiate this dual ... -
The making of Irish-speaking Ireland: The cultural politics of belonging, diversity and power
(2012)This paper is about linguistic justice issues in the post-colonial context of an Irish-speaking region in the south-west of Ireland, drawing on a study of political mobilization around the Irish-medium education policy ... -
A module on learning technologies for teachers in higher education
(Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ITDCNR, 2018-03-06)This paper describes a 10 European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS ) module in Learning Technologies which forms part of a Post Graduate Diploma in Academic Practice, part of a professional development framework ... -
Openness and praxis: exploring the use of open educational practices in higher education
(Athabasca University Press, 2017-08)Open educational practices (OEP) is a broad descriptor of practices that include the creation, use and reuse of open educational resources (OER) as well as open pedagogies and open sharing of teaching practices. As compared ... -
Reflections on teaching research ethics in education for international postgraduate students in the UK
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-11-25)Research ethics in education is a challenging topic to teach and to learn. As the staff and student body in UK higher education and elsewhere diversifies, the challenges increase as shared reference points diminish. My ... -
Struggling for visibility in higher education: caught between neoliberalism 'out there' and 'in here' - an autoethnographic account
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-01)What happens when neoliberalism as a structural and structuring force is taken up within institutions of higher education, and works upon academics in higher education individually? Employing a critical authoethnograph ... -
Theorizing Progress: Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology in Higher Education
(Wiley, 1999-08)A conceptual framework of positions on women in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) was developed, showing a chronological progression of the main approaches to women's underrepresentation in SET during the past 20 ... -
The trouble of ‘living with others’: language, community and the politics of belonging
(SAGE Journals, 2016)In this article I ask myself the following question: ‘Rather than try to escape the seemingly awful choice between the private and the public, between the particular and universal, or between justice and freedom, I ask if ... -
Trust schools and the politics of persuasion and the mobilisation of interest
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-06-21)This paper sets out the theoretical and methodological approach of a study of the politics of persuasion and the mobilisation of interest in relation to the Trust schools initiative in England. Drawing on the discourse ...