Teaching in Higher Education

Who inspired us to teach? Remembering our model teachers in Kazakhstan Most of us can remember a teacher who inspired us. Perhaps it was a teacher who encouraged us when we did not think we could do it, who showed beauty of the world, or who made learning feel meaning…

"Good teachers, as models, inspire not only learning but also the next generation of teachers"

New blog post from Gulnissa Zhunussova, Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin about inspiring teachers in #HigherEducation in #Kazakhstan

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A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Making translation visible in translingual doctoral research: a call to action for doctoral supervisors by Karen Mpamhanga. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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Making translation visible in translingual doctoral research: a call to action for doctoral supervisors

By Karen Mpamhanga

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#HigherEd #DoctoralEducation

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Five metafunctions of good university teachers: a narrative inquiry in Kazakhstan by Gulnissa Zhunussova, Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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Five metafunctions of good university teachers: a narrative inquiry in Kazakhstan

By Gulnissa Zhunussova et al.

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#HigherEd #ModelTeachers

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Learning that opens the heart: enhancing critical peace education with holistic learning and being by Jing Lin, Sachi Teresa Edwards, Amber Webb and Annie Rappeport. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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Learning that opens the heart: enhancing critical peace education with holistic learning and being

By Jing Lin et al.

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#HigherEd #PeaceEducation #HolisticLearning

Teaching in Higher Education Volume 30, Issue 8 of Teaching in Higher Education

The new TiHE issue is out! Volume 30, Issue 8 is now available here:

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8 articles, one Points of Departure piece! ✏️

Topics range from #UniversalDesign to #ReflectivePractice to #Neurodiversity to #PowerfulKnowledge

How does GenAI affect trust in teacher-student relationships? Insights from students’ assessment experiences Many observed that the rise of GenAI is causing an ‘erosion of trust’ between students and teachers in higher education. Such distrust mainly stems from concerns about student cheating, which is be...

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New podcast in our AI in #HigherEd series! 🚨

Join Ibrar Bhatt as he talks with Jiahui (Jess) Luo about her study “How does GenAI affect trust in teacher-student relationships?”

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A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: University success of graduates with disabilities in Portugal: analysis of personal factors and resilience by Almudena Cotán Fernández, Helena Venâncio Martins, Leonor Borges & Anabel Moriña Díez. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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University success of graduates with disabilities in Portugal: analysis of personal factors and resilience

By Almudena Cotán Fernández et al.

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#HigherEd #Disabilities

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Training peaceful warriors? Is peace leadership for military leaders helpful or harmful by David Tim Archer. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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Training peaceful warriors? Is peace leadership for military leaders helpful or harmful?

Points of Departure paper by David Tim Archer

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#HigherEd #PeaceEducation

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Refusal, governance, and the pedagogical imagination by Raya D. Petty and Wilson Kwamogi Okello. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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Refusal, governance, and the pedagogical imagination

By Raya D. Petty and Wilson Kwamogi Okello

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#HigherEd #Refusal

Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors The rapid development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies has led to widespread endorsement of GenAI systems serving as a ‘personal tutor’ and learning ‘collaborator’ in higher education. However...

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New podcast in our AI in #HigherEd series! 🚨

In this podcast, Gene Flenady talks about his article ‘Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors’, co-authored by Robert Sparrow

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A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Neurodiversity and academic integrity: toward epistemic plurality in a postplagiarism era by Sarah Elaine Eaton. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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Neurodiversity and academic integrity: toward epistemic plurality in a postplagiarism era

By Sarah Elaine Eaton

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#HigherEd #AcademicIntegrity #Neurodiversity

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: From thinking to ticking: has theory of change lost its theoretical grounding? by Billy Wong. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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From thinking to ticking: has theory of change lost its theoretical grounding?

Comment by Billy Wong

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#HigherEd #Theory

AI in the academy: South African scholars reflect on a new frontier When ChatGPT arrived on the global stage in late 2022, it sparked excitement, fear, curiosity, and confusion, often all at once. In South Africa, like elsewhere, academics were quick to ask: What d…

"We see generative AI not as a singular disruptor but as a prompt for deeper thinking: about what it means to teach, to learn, and to create knowledge in a digital age"

New blog post by Tanja Bosch and colleagues about #GenAi in #HigherEd

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Teaching in Higher Education Volume 30, Issue 7 of Teaching in Higher Education

The new @teachinginhe.bsky.social issue is out! Volume 30, Issue 7 is now available here:

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16 articles, one Points of Departure piece! ✏️

#HigherEd #HigherEducation

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Students as partners: towards theorisation of a complex phenomenon by Johan Geertsema and Tony Harland. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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Students as partners: towards theorisation of a complex phenomenon

By Johan Geertsema and Tony Harland

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#HigherEd #StudentsasPartners

The intellectual bankruptcy of anti-AI academic alarmism: A rebuttal A few years ago, a philosophy colleague and I taught a college English composition course at Lindenwood University organized around a single, surprising (for students) word: bullshit. We leaned int…

"The challenge of #HigherEducation is not to shield students from complexity but to equip them with the habits of mind, skepticism, and metacognitive awareness required to flourish amid it"

New blog post from Daniel Plate on the use of #GenAI

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A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Navigating the university PedTech Wonderland: a Freirean critique of technology-enhanced learning in higher education by Michelle Bedeker. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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Navigating the university PedTech Wonderland: a Freirean critique of technology-enhanced learning in higher education

By Michelle Bedeker

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#HigherEd #Freire

Writing-with in higher education: Why we stopped chasing “clean conclusions” Our new article in Teaching in Higher Education began with a sentence that wouldn’t leave us alone. It wasn’t elegant. It didn’t fit our outline. But it pulsed. Weeks later it surfaced again in a r…

"Writing-With is a quiet counter-culture that says: make space, somewhere in your process, for the line that lingers ... that’s how ideas mature"

New blog post by Le Thanh Thao & Pham Trut Thuy about time, uncertainty and writing in #HigherEd

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Rethinking assessment: Why interactive oral assessments might be higher education’s game-changer If you’ve ever taught at university, you’ll know that assessment is the double-edged sword of education. On one side, it’s the tool we use to measure learning. On the other, it’s the very thing tha…

"Interactive oral assessments create learning moments students remember long after grades are posted"

New blog post from Marcelle Droulers, Amita Krautloher and Saeed Shaeri about innovative forms of #assessment in #HigherEd

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🚨🚨🚨 FINAL REMINDER about this call for papers for a special issue entitled 'Plural Values in Humanities Education' – abstract deadline is Friday 31st October!

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Adoption and perceptions of generative AI among South African academics by Alette Schoon, Alexia Smit, Chikezie Uzuegbunam and Tanja Bosch. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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Adoption and perceptions of generative AI among South African academics

By Alette Schoon et al.

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#HigherEd #GenAI

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Framing student navigation of feedback on placements by David Boud, Elizabeth Molloy and Vicky Chang. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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Framing student navigation of feedback on placements

By David Boud, Elizabeth Molloy and Vicky Chang

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#HigherEd #Feedback #WorkIntegratedLearning

The intellectual bankruptcy of anti-AI academic alarmism: a rebuttal This article presents a concise rebuttal to the anti-AI academic alarmism advanced by Flenady and Sparrow, whose arguments – though influential in the humanities – misapply philosophical categories...

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New podcast series: AI in Higher Education! 🚨

In the first podcast, Ibrar Bhatt talks with Daniel Plate about his article 'The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Anti-AI Academic Alarmism'

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A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Teacher agency in universities: exploring underlying beliefs and agentic orientations when navigating university teaching practices by Max Kusters, Elizabeth A. C. Rushton, Arjen De Vetten, Wilfried Admiraal and Roeland Van der Rijst. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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Teacher agency in universities: exploring underlying beliefs and agentic orientations when navigating university teaching practices

By Max Kusters et al.

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#HigherEd #TeacherAgency

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: An intersectional analysis of students with disabilities’ exam experiences by Lois Ruth Harris, Joanna Tai, Paige Mahoney, Joanne Dargusch, Margaret Bearman and Rola Ajjawi. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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An intersectional analysis of students with disabilities’ exam experiences

By Lois Ruth Harris et al.

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#HigherEd #Intersectionality #Assessment

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Decolonising the psychology curriculum: perspectives from faculty at a UK university by Isabella Macedo de Lucas, Chris Kent, Nilufar Ahmed, Umut Ozguc, Greg Downey and Peter Allen. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article in both English and Portuguese (available via the link).

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Decolonising the psychology curriculum: perspectives from faculty at a UK university

By Isabella Macedo de Lucas et al.

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#HigherEd #Decolonisation

Special issue: call for papers Teaching and marginalised communities: Participatory approaches, pedagogies and power Special issue editors: Manny Madriaga, Jillian Seniuk Cicek, Karen Mpamhanga and Neil Harrison A recent feature…

🚨💡📢 SPECIAL ISSUE: CALL FOR PAPERS!

Seeking abstracts for a new special issue entitled "Teaching and marginalised communities: Participatory approaches, pedagogies and power"

Full details via the link below ⬇️

Abstract deadline: 5th Jan 2026

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