Teaching in Higher Education

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A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: The pedagogical power of recognition in feedback by Thomas Corbin, Joanna Tai and Gene Flenady. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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New publication alert! 🚨

The pedagogical power of recognition in feedback

By Thomas Corbin, Joanna Tai and Gene Flenady

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#HigherEducation #Feedback

Changing cultures of critique: towards context, creativity and care in academic practice In this Point for Departure, I argue that ideas and practices of ‘criticality’ in the western-influenced academy should explicitly and intentionally include: sensitivity to context, a spirit of cre...

Last but not least, we shortlisted one Points of Departure piece:

⭐️ 'Changing cultures of critique: towards context, creativity and care in academic practice' by Shari Daya

Congratulations! ⚡️

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Getting critical about critical world citizenship. Bottom-up skills development and in-classroom operationalization within a Dutch liberal arts college This article addresses the challenge of translating critical world citizenship (CWC) into educational practice within interdisciplinary higher education. While scholarly literature provides theoret...

⭐️ 'Getting critical about critical world citizenship. Bottom-up skills development and in-classroom operationalization within a Dutch liberal arts college' by Jop Dispa, Ward Vloeberghs and Katja Skenderija

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Caught in a loop? Investigating the interplay between time and emotions for university students This article explores the significant yet under-researched relationship between students’ experiences of time and their emotions during university studies. We frame our study through two existing t...

⭐️ 'Caught in a loop? Investigating the interplay between time and emotions for university students' by Mollie Dollinger, Nicole Crawford, Rola Ajjawi, Margaret Bearman and Joanna Tai

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Diversifying curricula: how are people of colour represented in lecture slide images? Diversifying higher education curricula has been called for as one way to reduce racial inequalities in higher education. This study makes an original contribution by focusing on images of people i...

⭐️ 'Diversifying curricula: how are people of colour represented in lecture slide images?' by Mi Young Ahn, Kathleen M. Quinlan and Barbara Adewumi

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Post-anthropocentric pedagogies: purposes, practices, and insights for higher education What does it mean to teach in higher education (HE) from vantage points that do not privilege human self-interest, but include nonhuman animals as significant subjects of educational practice? This...

⭐️ 'Post-anthropocentric pedagogies: purposes, practices, and insights for higher education' by Helena Pedersen

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‘It’s a lot of shame’: understanding the impact of gender-based violence on higher education access and participation This paper draws on new empirical research examining the impact of gender-based violence (GBV) on students' experiences of higher education. While GBV across the life-course is an extremely prevale...

In addition to the winning papers, those shortlisted for the award include:

⭐️'‘It’s a lot of shame’: understanding the impact of gender-based violence on higher education access and participation' by Penny Jane Burke et al.

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‘See us’: an urgent call to collaborate with colleagues in crisis environments around the world This essay is written as an urgent call for collaboration. It is a provocation for academics in non-crisis environments to proactively reach out to our academic colleagues in Ukraine and other seve...

This year we have considered Points of Departure as a separate category, with the winning POD being:

🚨 '‘See us’: an urgent call to collaborate with colleagues in crisis environments around the world' by Amy L. Kenworthy et al.

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Educational expertise as prestige: research-intensive curriculum change Institution-wide curriculum change is a costly, time-intensive and politically fraught undertaking. It is a challenge identifying who has responsibility for the curriculum and who is empowered to c...

Teaching in Higher Education Editors’ Choice Award for 2026 has been awarded to the following paper:

🚨 'Educational expertise as prestige: research-intensive curriculum change' by Camille Kandiko Howson and Martyn Kingsbury

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🚨 Editors’ Choice Awards for 2026 🚨

Teaching in Higher Education has awarded two articles (one research paper and one Points of Departure piece) and shortlisted five articles and one POD – see the winners and shortlistees from the link below! ⬇️

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Making time visible in student research: Why temporal awareness matters If you’ve supervised master’s or PhD projects that aimed to change something, such as introducing a new practice, tweaking a curriculum, piloting a tool, or making another intervention, you might h…

New blog post by Gerd Johansen and Kristin Solli 🚨

Making time visible in student research: Why temporal awareness matters

#HigherEducation #Time #Temporality

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A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Developing peace and justice education praxes at a university – towards pedagogies for life-deep learning by Vaugh M. John. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

New publication alert! 🚨

Developing peace and justice education praxes at a university – towards pedagogies for life-deep learning

By Vaughn M. John

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#HigherEducation #PeaceEducation

Frugal pedagogical innovation: reframing creativity in higher education teaching This article explores how pedagogical innovation is enacted under constraint in UK higher education, drawing on interviews with academic educators, senior leaders, and technology-enabled learning (...

Read Emma's recently published article on frugal pedagogical innovations here:

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Frugal pedagogical innovation: Looking beyond what sparkles in higher education teaching If you work in higher education, you will probably recognise the way pedagogical innovation is usually talked about. In strategies, policy documents and teaching awards, innovation tends to mean wh…

New blog post by Emma Thirkell on frugal pedagogical innovation 🚨

"In everyday conversations about teaching, colleagues rarely describe innovation in terms of shiny tools or flagship initiatives"

#HigherEducation #Innovation

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A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Towards effective EMI curriculum-making in higher education: the 4C framework by Kailun Wang and Rui Yuan. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

New publication alert! 🚨

Towards effective EMI curriculum-making in higher education: the 4C framework

By Kailun Wang and Rui Yuan

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#HigherEducation #EnglishMediumInstruction

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Toward place-responsive pedagogies in higher education: insights from post-Conflict Sri Lanka's academic practice by Suren Ladd. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

New publication alert! 🚨

Toward place-responsive pedagogies in higher education: insights from post-Conflict Sri Lanka's academic practice

By Suren Ladd

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#HigherEducation #PeaceEducation

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Time matters: explicating temporal awareness for higher education students conducting research aimed at change by Gerd Johansen and Kristin Solli. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

New publication alert! 🚨

Time matters: explicating temporal awareness for higher education students conducting research aimed at change

By Gerd Johansen and Kristin Solli

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

#HigherEducation #Time

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Frugal pedagogical innovation: reframing creativity in higher education teaching by Emma Thirkell. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

New publication alert! 🚨

Frugal pedagogical innovation: reframing creativity in higher education teaching

By Emma Thirkell

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

#HigherEducation #PedagogicalInnovation

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A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: A grounded theory of teaching Suppression by Competition (TSC) in Chinese higher education by Qing Wang and Yiwen Hu. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

New publication alert! 🚨

A grounded theory of teaching Suppression by Competition (TSC) in Chinese higher education

By Qing Wang and Yiwen Hu

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#HigherEducation #TeachingCompetitions

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Towards a critical approach to diaspora engagement in teaching and education development in conflict-affected contexts by Oudai Tozan and Ahmad Akkad. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

New publication alert! 🚨

Towards a critical approach to diaspora engagement in teaching and education development in conflict-affected contexts

Points of Departure piece by Oudai Tozan and Ahmad Akkad

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#HigherEducation #Diaspora

What teaching large cohorts taught me about motivation My pedagogical approach today centres on the design and delivery of competition-based learning, applied across mainstream higher education and international competition contexts. That was never the…

"Reduced contact time, digital mediation, and scale forced a more deliberate focus on how motivation is designed, supported, and sustained"

New blog post by Michael McGuire on teaching large cohorts in virtual learning environments

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Generative AI and Teaching in Higher Education Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have begun to change the way in which research and the writing of research papers are being conducted. This posting is designed to keep authors who pla…

Generative AI and Teaching in Higher Education 🚨

Read our blog post about our journal’s stance towards authors’ use of AI tools in their research, and how this aligns with the AI policy by Taylor & Francis

#HigherEducation #GenAI

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Seven questions for potential authors: how to get published in Teaching in Higher Education Teaching in Higher Education receives over 1000 submissions every year, of which we will publish around 100 (plus our special issues). The vast majority of the remainder are rejected before the pee…

Sounds interesting but cannot make it to the event? You may wish to revisit our blog post on how to get published in TiHE ⬇️
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Meet the Editor Event on March 10, 2026! 🚨

Join the TiHE editors to hear about their vision for the journal, what they look for in submissions, and how to avoid common submission pitfalls

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A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: The tricky business of teaching peace and conflict: diverse pedagogical strategies for university classrooms by Wim Laven. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

New publication alert! 🚨

The tricky business of teaching peace and conflict: diverse pedagogical strategies for university classrooms

By Wim Laven

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

#HigherEducation #Polarization

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Critical events in bachelor's and taught master's dissertation writing: a case study and model by Natalie Schembri and Alma Jahić Jašić. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

New publication alert! 🚨

Critical events in bachelor's and taught master's dissertation writing: a case study and model

By Natalie Schembri and Alma Jahić Jašić

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#HigherEducation #Dissertation

The rollercoaster of undergraduate education Photo by Wong Ching Kristy What is undergraduate education for? A wealth of scholarly criticism has claimed that universities are facing a ‘knowledge crisis’ as undergraduate education is increasin…

"Normally, you move quickly from lecture to test... That's very different from Armenia, where knowledge emerged gradually, unpredictably, and subconsciously"

New blog post by Wong Ching Kristy on the rollercoaster of undergraduate education

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