This paper describes developments in the rise and implementation of teaching focused positions in universities. We note that such development is not without challenge given the research priority of many universities, and we note that teaching focused academics need to be across developments in the disciplinary knowledge of their field and able to integrate these into their teaching practice. We argue that teaching scholars must be different but equal to those engaged in research and/or research and teaching, we note the Importance of Ernest Boyer and we highlight the role of scholarship in teaching focussed positions. We provide examples of universities that have implemented teaching focused positions and identify implications for Chinese universities.
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Australian Government “Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2011.” 9 11 http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2013C00169
Bain Ken What the Best College Teachers Do 2004 Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press
Belinda Probert “Teaching focused academic appointments in Australian universities: recognition, specialization, or stratification?” The Office for Learning and Teaching 2012 December
Belinda Probert “Why scholarship matters in higher education” The Office for Learning and Teaching 2014 May
Boyer Ernest Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate 1990 Princeton, NJ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Byrne Ed In discussion with the author 2012 September 25 (Vice-Chancellor Monash University)
Central Queensland University Academic Profiles Document 2013 June 5
Curtin University Academic, professional and general staff enterprise agreement 2012-2016 http://ebastaff.curtin.edu.au/local/docs/AGREEMENT_MASTER_v11D.pdf
Fullan Michael & Scott Geoff Turnaround Leadership for Higher Education 2009 Jossey-Bass
Hutchings Pat, Huber Mary Taylor & Ciccone Anthony The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Reconsidered: Institutional Integration and Impact 2011 Jossey-Bass
Norton Andrew Taking university teaching seriously 2013 Grattan Institute http://apo.org.au/files/Resource/GrattanInstitute_TakingUniversityTeachingSeriously_July2013.pdf
Probert Belinda Teaching-Focused Academic Appointments in Australian Universities 2013 Sydney, New South Wales Office for Learning and Teaching
Ramsden Paul “No thinkable alternative.” Times Higher Education 2010 August 5
Richlin L. “Scholarly Teaching and the Scholarship of Teaching.” New Directions for Teaching and Learning 2001 2001 no. 86 57 68
The Australia Government The Bradley Review of Higher Education 2008 March
University of Queensland Report of the Working Party on Diversity of Academic Roles 2007 March
Whitchurch Celia “Shifting identities and blurring boundaries: the emergence of ‘third space’ professionals in uk higher education.” Higher Education Quarterly 2008 62 4 377 396
Ibid., 16.
The Australia Government, The Bradley Review of Higher Education, 124-6.
Ibid., 2-3.
Ibid., 55.
Ibid., 13.
Ibid., 27.
Ibid., 27.
Ibid., 28.
Ibid., 23.
Paul Ramsden, “No thinkable alternative,” Times Higher Education, August 5, 2010. 22 Ken Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004).
Ibid., 36.
Ibid., 25.
L. Richlin, “Scholarly Teaching and the Scholarship of Teaching,” New Directions for Teaching and Learning 2001, no. 86 (2001): 57-68.
See Belinda Probert, Teaching-Focused Academic Appointments in Australian Universities (Sydney, New South Wales: Office for Learning and Teaching, 2013) for a longer review of promotion policies.
Ibid., 12.
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This paper describes developments in the rise and implementation of teaching focused positions in universities. We note that such development is not without challenge given the research priority of many universities, and we note that teaching focused academics need to be across developments in the disciplinary knowledge of their field and able to integrate these into their teaching practice. We argue that teaching scholars must be different but equal to those engaged in research and/or research and teaching, we note the Importance of Ernest Boyer and we highlight the role of scholarship in teaching focussed positions. We provide examples of universities that have implemented teaching focused positions and identify implications for Chinese universities.
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