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Many debates in higher education center around the role of approaches to teaching (measured with ATI-R) and impact of academic disciplines (soft vs. hard) on teaching practice, e.g. advice giving. An online study with N = 70 academic teachers was conducted and the advice given was content analyzed. Regression analyses showed that academics with a h...
One way teachers show professionalism in their interactions with parents is by having knowledge of and refl ecting the parents' perspective on what constitutes eff ective teaching and learning. These assumptions guide teacher-parent communication. This article compares the beliefs about teaching-concerning teacher oriented and learner-oriented beli...
This study examines how academics and students from different disciplines perceive teaching and knowledge acquisition. University academics and students from both hard and soft disciplines completed the Domain-specific Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire and the Approaches to Teaching Inventory. Results showed that academics held more student-/le...
Online instructional communication, as found in ask-an-expert forums, e-learning discussion boards or online help desks, creates
situations that threaten the recipient's face. This study analyzed the evaluation of face-threatening acts with a 1×3 design.
An online forum thread confronted a layperson with an expert who either (a) addressed the laype...
Reflecting ones own conceptions of teaching is assumed a prerequisite of quality teaching (e.g. Kreber & Castleden, 2009, Mälkki & Lindblom-Ylänne, 2012) and a central perspective on professionalization in university teaching (Amundsen & Wilson, 2012).
The academic discipline and its epistemological structure plays an important role for the social...
Der Text beschreibt die Messung von Lehrorientierungen durch ein offenes Antwortformat. Lehrende (n = 71) und Studierende (n = 276) der Universität Münster führten den Satzanfang "Für gute Lehre ist es aus meiner Sicht wichtig, dass ..." fort. Die in den Ausführungen genannten Aspekte wurden inhaltsanalytisch (MAYRING, 2010) entlang des Modells zu...
Reflecting ones own conceptions of teaching is a central perspective on professionalization in university teaching (Amundsen & Wilson, 2012).
The present study addresses conceptions of teaching and asks two interrelated questions: (1) How do conceptions of teaching diverge in so called soft versus hard disciplines? (2) And how do epistemological be...
Zu Lehren gehört traditionell zu den grundlegenden Aufgabenbereichen der meisten Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler an deutschen Hochschulen. Dennoch bedarf dieser Bereich einer Professionalisierung, d.h. einer Entwicklung hin zu einer reflektier- ten und fundierten Tätigkeit. Ein Bestandteil der Professionalisierung sind Angebote zur Weiterq...
