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Title

Quality teaching in a managerialist setting: higher education challenges in Australia

Author(s)

Demediuk, Therese;  Van Gramberg, Bernadine

Abstract

Australian universities face increased challenges in a global higher education marketplace. They have responded to this competitive environment by introducing greater efficiency and accountability measures. One key measure is the quality of teaching and in particular, the delivery of student-centred teaching. However, the reforms have changed the working lives of academic teachers who now have greater reporting and administrative responsibilities with less sense of collegiality in the sector. In these circumstances, it is not clear that teaching staff will share the same perceptions of quality teaching as their institutions expect. This paper examines the utility of role theory and learning organization theory as part of a project which will examine the ways in which implicit knowledge can be made explicit and shared in the organization as part of academic teachers' roles. The paper hypothesizes that when academics share their perceptions of good teaching, universities will benefit from a coherent set of quality teaching indicators which are aligned with their organizational cultures.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, No. 32E (Feb 2011), pp. 98-113

Publication year

2011

Keyword(s)

Australia;  Higher education sector;  Teaching quality

Publisher

Universitatea Babes-Bolyai

ISSN

1842-2845

Publisher URL

http://www.rtsa.ro/en/334,no.-32-e-february-2011.html

Copyright

Copyright © 2011.

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