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A Taxonomy for Cultural Adaptation: The Stories of Two Academics When Teaching Indigenous Student Sojourners

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2020
Difficult cultural encounters can impact both student sojourners and academics. In this article we present vignettes of separate experiences of an unforeseen cultural encounter in each of two groups of short-term adult student sojourners and we who ...
Jayne Pitard, Meghan Kelly
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Shifting landscapes: from coalface to quick sand? Teaching geography, earth and environmental sciences in UK higher education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this paper we examine contemporary academic working lives, with particular reference to teaching-only and teaching-focused academics. We argue that intensification in the neoliberal university has significantly shifted the structure of academic ...
Angervall   +27 more
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Academic Celebrity [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 2019
AbstractThis article examines the institution of celebrity within academia. Academic celebrity has parallels with the celebrity seen in the wider world, though it is born of conditions unique to the fields of higher education and research and exhibits its own special characteristics.
Walsh, Peter William, Lehmann, David
openaire   +1 more source

Towards Just Food Futures

open access: yesCanadian Food Studies, 2022
The call for Just Food Futures reflects a desire to address social inequities, health disparities, and environmental disasters created by overlapping systems of oppression including capitalism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy.
Marit Rosol   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The MedSupport Multilevel Intervention to Enhance Support for Pediatric Medication Adherence: Development and Feasibility Testing

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction We developed MedSupport, a multilevel medication adherence intervention designed to address root barriers to medication adherence. This study sought to explore the feasibility and acceptability of the MedSupport intervention strategies to support a future full‐scale randomized controlled trial.
Elizabeth G. Bouchard   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review: The Complete Guide to Blended Learning: Activating Agency, Differentiation, Community and Inquiry for Students

open access: yesIssues and Trends in Learning Technologies
In The Complete Guide to Blended Learning: Activating Agency, Differentiation, Community and Inquiry for Students, Catlin Tucker continues to support teacher wellness and student accountability.
April Burton
doaj   +2 more sources

Predicting academics’ job satisfaction from their perceived leadership styles: Evidence from Tanzania

open access: yesCogent Psychology, 2023
Over the last several decades, the attention of scholars in the field of leadership in higher education (HE) has been rapidly growing. A corpus of literature on leadership research has established how leadership styles affect institutional performance ...
Samson John Mgaiwa
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Widening access to writing support: beliefs about the writing process are key [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Universities’ performance indicators for scholarly outputs depend on academics having productive and sustainable writing behaviours. Research shows that writing programmes can increase research output, but less is known about which writing processes are ...
Kempenaar, Larissa, Murray, Rowena
core   +2 more sources

Patient‐Level Barriers and Facilitators to Inpatient Physical Therapy in Adolescents and Young Adults With a Hematological Malignancy: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite their increased risk for functional impairment resulting from cancer and its treatments, few adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with a hematological malignancy receive the recommended or therapeutic dose of exercise per week during inpatient hospitalizations.
Jennifer A. Kelleher   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the activist-academic divide: feminist activism and the teaching of global politics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Our starting point in this article is the widespread belief that academia and activism are separate worlds, driven by contrasting aims and imperatives and governed by different rules.
Eschle, Catherine, Maiguashca, Bice
core   +1 more source

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