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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Transculturality in higher education
Supporting students’ experiences through praxis
Heidi A. Smith
In Learning and Teaching
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 41–60 (20 total)
Geographical differentiation in access to higher education in Sweden
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
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 61–81 (21 total)
Resources for hope: Ideas for alternatives from heterodox higher education institutions
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
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 87–110 (24 total)
There is an alternative: A report on an action research project to develop a framework for co-operative higher education
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
Humanisation of higher education
Re-imagining the university together with students
Patric Wallin
imperative that emerges within this higher education landscape is an imperative of transaction, competition and opposition. By foregrounding students as consumers, with a focus on individual performance in a competitive environment that presents serious
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 55–74 (20 total)
Trends and tensions of higher education at a rural Japanese national university
Anthony Rausch
The characteristics of higher education reform In the introduction to the edited volume Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences , Dave Hill and Ravi Kumar (2009) contend that the restructuring of schooling and education is
In Learning and Teaching
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- 01 Mar 2019
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- Research Article
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- 34–52 (19 total)
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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 01 Dec 2022
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- Research Article
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- 32–55 (24 total)