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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 3h

New publication alert! 🚨

A pedagogical letter on time: my wandering with Paulo Freire's praxis in higher education

By Maíra Tavares Mendes

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#HigherEd #Freire #Time

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 3d

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International students’ experiences of technology-enhanced differentiated instruction in higher education: promises, pitfalls, propositions

By Tang T. Heng and Nannan Lu

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#HigherEd #InternationalStudents

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 4d

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Attitudes of university lecturers to English as a lingua franca: language mindsets identified using Q methodology

By Paul Kavanagh et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEd #LanguageMindsets

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 5d

Guest Editors: Kathy Luckett, Ibrar Bhatt and Alison MacKenzie

Read the Editorial here ⬇️

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Editorial: getting critical about critique in higher education

Published in Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives (Vol. 30, No. 6, 2025)

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 5d

New Special Issue: Getting Critical About Critique in Higher Education 🚨

The SI rethinks the meaning and practices of ‘criticality’, foregrounds diverse perspectives (Confucianism, Arabic-Islamic philosophy...), and opens new pathways for global scholarship

www.tandfonline.com/toc/cthe20/3...

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List of contents (please see the link for the full list of articles in the Special Issue)

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 6d

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Power and Good Student Discourse: perpetuating narratives of effort, natural ability, and academic success in first-year courses

By Claire A. Boeck

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEd #AcademicSuccess

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Trish, Goblinbrarian 🎃📚💻🇵🇭🇺🇲 @trishgreen.bsky.social · 6d

"By deciding to start using BlueSky and LinkedIn, we wish to continue meeting our key purpose for joining social media in the first place: disseminating the publications of our journal to wider audiences and promoting the journal itself for people who might have been unaware of it before."

Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 7d

"After careful consideration, we have extended our social media presence from X to BlueSky and LinkedIn. For now, we have decided to keep posting new material on X"

New blog post from our Assistant Editor about our approach to social media:

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Higher education journals and social media in turbulent times

After careful consideration, Teaching in Higher Education has extended its social media presence from X to BlueSky and LinkedIn. For now, we have decided to keep posting new material on our X page.…

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 7d

"After careful consideration, we have extended our social media presence from X to BlueSky and LinkedIn. For now, we have decided to keep posting new material on X"

New blog post from our Assistant Editor about our approach to social media:

teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/h...

Higher education journals and social media in turbulent times

After careful consideration, Teaching in Higher Education has extended its social media presence from X to BlueSky and LinkedIn. For now, we have decided to keep posting new material on our X page.…

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 11d

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University teachers’ engagement and sensemaking in knowledge building professional development

By Feng Lin et al.

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#HigherEd #KnowledgeBuilding

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 12d

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The intellectual bankruptcy of anti-AI academic alarmism: a rebuttal

By Daniel Plate and James Hutson

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEd #ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 13d

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Why we need Writing-With: reorienting scholarly presence in higher education research

By Thanh Thao Le and Trut Thuy Pham

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEd #AcademicWriting

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 14d

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Understanding philosophical perspectives of ‘voice’ for better student staff co-creation

By Karen Simecek and Rebecca Freeman

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#HigherEd #CoCreation #StudentVoice

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 17d

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Approaches to educational curation: how lecturers in higher education incorporate educational resources in course designs

By R.H. Leighton et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEd #EducationalResources

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Aug 30

🚨📢✍️ SPECIAL ISSUE: CALL FOR PAPERS!

We are seeking abstracts for a special issue entitled 'Plural Values in Humanities Education' – publication in late 2026. Deadline for 750-word abstracts is 31st Oct 2025. Full call for papers is here:

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Special issue: call for papers

Plural values in humanities education Special issue editors: Shannon Morreira, Shari Daya and Kathy Luckett The contemporary global context is characterised by poly-crisis and deep uncertainty. Pol…

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Interactive oral assessment: co-existence of formative and summative purposes

By Marcelle Droulers et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEducation #OralAssessment

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Criticality as refusal: counterstories of the occupied, (non)-collaboration, and resisting silence

Points of Departure paper by Erika Jiménez et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#HigherEducation #Criticality #Palestine

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Jul 31

New online collection! 🚨

Marginalised communities in higher education: 13 earlier TiHE papers! ✏️

This collection aims to capture important thinking about teaching for student communities that find themselves marginalised, invisibilised or silenced

www.tandfonline.com/journals/cth...

Marginalised communities in higher education

Explore the article collection: Marginalised communities in higher education. Published in Teaching in Higher Education.

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Sandra Flynn, PhD @sandraflynn.bsky.social · Jul 15

Adding to my summer reading list ☀️😎
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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Reimagining the first year experience in higher education through a focus on knowledge engagement

By Laura Cordes Felby and Paul Ashwin

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEducation #FirstYear

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Jul 21

The new @teachinginhe.bsky.social issue is out! Volume 30, Issue 5 is now available here:

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16 articles, one Points of Departure piece! ✏️

#HigherEducation

Teaching in Higher Education

Volume 30, Issue 5 of Teaching in Higher Education

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Jul 15

New publication alert! 🚨

Reimagining the first year experience in higher education through a focus on knowledge engagement

By Laura Cordes Felby and Paul Ashwin

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEducation #FirstYear

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Jul 11

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Teaching through ‘powerful knowledge’ in vocational higher education: tensions of ‘relational’ approaches in China

By Xuelong Hu and Xiying Wang

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEducation #PowerfulKnowledge

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Learning ecologies and collaborative reflective practices in higher education

By Lynn Sheridan et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEducation #Reflection #ReflectivePractice

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Jun 30

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Critiquing uncritical EDI in higher education

Points of Departure paper by Matt Lumb and Penny Jane Burke

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEducation #Equity #EDI

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Postsecondary instructors’ disclosures of mental illness and neurodiversity in the classroom: motives and means suggest four disclosure types

By Simonne Horwitz et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEducation #Disclosure

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Postsecondary instructors’ disclosures of mental illness and neurodiversity in the classroom: motives and means suggest four disclosure types by Simonne Horwitz, Jan Gelech, Jordan Wellsch, Ana Carolina de Barros, Terri Croteau, Jake Bergen, Shannon Forrester, Lori Bradford and Judy Jaunzems Fernuk. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Jun 26

You can read Claire’s article here:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Assessment as pedagogy: inviting authenticity through relationality, vulnerability and wonder

Traditional authentic assessment tasks are frequently tied to future work and enmeshed in neoliberal and capitalist visions of education. We advocate an alternative approach where authenticity sign...

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