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President moves: Recent resignations show 3 reasons why a leader steps down

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The three presidents to step down demonstrate a variety of reasons for making a change: to reengage in academia, pursue other professional opportunities or make way for new leadership during trying times. He has served at Nichols since 2006, mainly in positions that revolved around fundraising and advancement.

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The interplay of occupational subcultures and HE curricula changes how and what student professionals learn

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Hunt & Sampson (2006) and Van-Maanen (2011) advise using reflexivity to examine the self and voice to help harness and understand the responsibility of the researcher within the research. 2006) Writing self & reflexivity. He has a professional doctorate in Education (EdD) and is a Fellow of the College of Paramedics.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

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Drawing on over two decades in academia, Michele Poulos specializes in general psychology, social psychology, and human growth and development. I encourage you to let your students be creative, and I think you’ll see the whole learning process change—hopefully you’ll learn something along the way too. Clover, D. Edwards, M.,

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New evidence on the challenges and consequences of precarious work for university students

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Early research by Moreau and Leathwood (2006) on post-92 students concluded that students from working class background were disproportionately impacted by the lack of state support, as the ‘benefits of flexible labour predominantly accrue to the employer’ (2006: 37).

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

Drawing on over two decades in academia, Michele Poulos specializes in general psychology, social psychology, and human growth and development. I encourage you to let your students be creative, and I think you’ll see the whole learning process change—hopefully you’ll learn something along the way too. Clover, D. Edwards, M.,

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Fun and games – nurturing students’ ‘being’

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Passive teaching methods, such as rote-memorisation and large-format lectures still dominate academia, despite research calling for more appropriate ways of instruction. Pink, DH (2006) A whole new mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future. Freire, P (1970) Pedagogy of the oppressed Penguin Classics edition 2017.

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Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: Reflections on the Assemblages Symposium

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Combining insights from her own investigations of posthuman materialities with critical contributions by Braidotti (2019), Barad (2007), Delanda (2006) and Bennett (2010), Carol moved to trouble normalised and common sense ideas about knowledge-making and space.