In recent decades, higher education across the world has restructured itself to meet the needs of global competitiveness and embraced the knowledge economy ( Krause-Jensen and Garsten 2014 ). Through embracing ‘information technology
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In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 41–60 (20 total)
Aimee Haley
In the latter half of the twentieth century, higher education systems around the world expanded and the number of higher education institutions increased. This expansion is often referred to as a massification of the higher education system ( Trow
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 61–81 (21 total)
Catherine N. Butcher
, pedagogy and curriculum radically different from the prevailing system. Because of the near-hegemony of the marketised and corporatised forms of higher education, I searched for exemplars of very different imaginaries and considered how they might be
Using differentiated teaching to address academic diversity in higher education
Empirical evidence from two cases
Matias Thuen Jørgensen and Lena Brogaard
Higher education institutions increasingly face diverse student populations with learners from different backgrounds and with varying educational experience ( Boelens et al. 2018 ; Fry et al. 2008 ; Ramburuth and McCormick 2001 ; Tomlinson and
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 87–110 (24 total)
Mike Neary and Joss Winn
In this participatory action research project, we sought to develop a framework for higher education based on an existing alternative institutional form of co-operative association that attempts to address issues of ownership and control over
Neoliberal student activism in Brazilian higher education
The case of ‘Students For Liberty Brasil’
Evandro Coggo Cristofoletti and Milena Pavan Serafim
of a free market society, such as competitiveness, entrepreneurship and individualism. This article aims to analyse how and why neoliberal think tanks, especially between 2010 to 2020, have been acting in the field of higher education in Brazil
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2022
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- Research Article
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- 67–91 (25 total)
Creating a reflective space in higher education
The case of a Swedish course for professional principals
Katina Thelin
context of higher education, and from a pedagogical praxis perspective, this recognition of the importance of reflection has created a need to develop reflective learning environments for aspiring or practising professionals. From the perspective of
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 1–17 (17 total)
Peripheries within the higher education centres
Internationalisation experiences in Finland and UK
Sonja Trifuljesko and On Hee Choi
While the three cases in the previous article elucidated peripheries in the Global South, analysing three countries’ top-down efforts to regain their own agencies in contemporary global higher education institutions, this article focuses on the
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2022
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- Research Article
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- 32–55 (24 total)
Olivia Mason and Nick Megoran
. Precarity and casualisation in higher education In 2010, the CEO of crowd-working company CrowdFlower, Lukas Biewald, told an audience that: before the Internet, it would be really difficult to find someone, sit them down for ten minutes and get them
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 35–59 (25 total)
Anthony Rausch
This article examines the impact of contemporary higher education policy at a rural university in Japan. Hirosaki University, although a national university with an attached medical school, is far from the centre of academia in Japan, with a comparatively low ranking among national universities in Japan, and severe budget constraints. The policies that influence the trajectory of the university simultaneously illustrate two dimensions. On the one hand, they reflect global trends of neoliberal higher educational governance as these unfold in a leading nation-state within Asia. On the other hand, they show how policies originating within central government ministries and dictated by population and budget dynamics yield a highly localised outcome that forces a peripheral university to concentrate its efforts predominantly in its own community.
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
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- 34–52 (19 total)