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How approaches to teaching are affected by discipline and teaching context

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ID4097544
AuthorsSari Lindblom-Ylänne (0000-0001-7297-7433, University of Helsinki, corresponding author), Sari Lindblom‐ylänne, Keith Trigwell (University of Oxford), Anne Nevgi (0000-0003-2301-896X, University of Helsinki), Paul Ashwin (0000-0001-7630-1748, Lancaster University)
Year2006
Volume31
Issue3
Pages285-298
Publication date2006-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03075070600680539
OpenAlexW2142619788
LanguageEN
Citations received105
References cited29

Two related studies are reported in this article. The first aimed to analyse how academic discipline is related to university teachers’ approaches to teaching. The second explored the effects of teaching context on approaches to teaching. The participants of the first study were 204 teachers from the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration and 136 teachers from the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University who returned university teaching inventories. Thus, altogether there were 340 teachers from a variety of disciplines in Finland and the UK. The second study involved only the Finnish sample. The results showed that there was systematic variation in both student‐ and teacher‐focused dimensions of approaches to teaching across disciplines and across teaching contexts. These results confirm the relational nature of teachers’ approaches to teaching and illustrate the need, in using inventories such as the Approaches to Teaching Inventory, to be explicit about the context

Geography · Higher education · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Teaching and learning center · Teaching method · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Computer Science · Evaluation of Teaching Practices · Online and Blended Learning · Psychology

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