Life is really tough. Life is particularly tough for teenagers who see no future in front of them but death or jail or an endless grind of stress and survival. It is tough for their parents and ...

My nomination for the most predictable platitude invoked by university professors when describing the essence of their job is “teaching students to think for themselves.” During my 26 years at the ...

The preparation of teachers in higher education is often built on two pillars: design and pedagogy. The first pillar, course design, covers the formulation of outcomes, the ways in which the outcomes ...

Share reader responses to my recent question: Do colleges value good teaching? Remind you that we have a collection of free advice guides, written by experts, to help improve your teaching. Point you ...

W hen Phoebe Young began working at the University of Colorado at Boulder as an assistant professor of history in 2009, her annual teaching reviews were fairly perfunctory. Everyone knew, she says, ...

In recent years, neuroscientists have identified specific neurons in the brain that have been labeled as ‘mirror neurons.’ These mirror neurons fire when observing behavior, similar to what occurs ...

Sally Patfield currently receives funding from the NSW Department of Education and the Paul Ramsay Foundation. The study on which this piece is partially based was funded through the Vice-Chancellor's ...