Many people have contributed to the development and writing of this book. There are a few
whom I wish to thank particularly. Carolyn Jackson, Monica McLean, Keith Trigwell, Murray …

It is widely accepted in the higher education literature that a student-centred approach is
pedagogically superior to a teacher-centred approach. In this paper, we explore the notion …

The “community of practice”(CoP) has emerged as a potentially powerful unit of analysis
linking the individual and the collective because it situates the role of learning, knowledge …

This paper explores the dynamics surrounding the formation of academic identities in a
context where the nature of academic work is contested both as a result of tensions within …

Background Across the globe, there have been significant reforms to improve STEM
education at all levels. A significant part of this has been teacher reform. While the …

Despite the wealth of literature on academic work, roles and identities, the meaning of being
an academic often does not go beyond such pre-defined and separate roles of teacher …

One of the challenges of research into social practice is finding a way to take both the
structural aspects of the social contexts and individual agency into account. This article …

This article presents an analysis of the experiences of scholars in a university-wide
curriculum reform in one public research university. The focus is on the intentions and …

Although academic identity has received attention in the literature, there have been few
attempts to understand the influence on identity from engagement with the Scholarship of …

Recent studies argue that in the next 5 years, the higher education sector will see half to two-
thirds of its academic workforce leave the academy due to retirement, career burnout, or job …