THE DISHARMONY IN HARMONY: EXPERIENCES OF FEMALE LEADERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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Title

THE DISHARMONY IN HARMONY: EXPERIENCES OF FEMALE LEADERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Creator

Esi Akyere Mensah

Description

One of the current best practices of higher education institutions with multiple learning and teaching centers is to have standardized levels of teaching, learning and assessment especially if they all award the same degrees. Although this has been asserted as best practice, its implementation is not always simple, neither is it easy. This paper thus presents findings from a higher education institution in an emerging economy which undertook this task of achieving this standardization by harmonizing course outlines, teaching and materials as well as assumptive assessment across its five teaching and learning centers. The paper chronicles the experiences of five female academic leaders who played significant roles in implementing this harmonization of teaching and assessment policy. Adopting a qualitative approach and phenomenological inquiry, this study utilizes one self-reflective report as well as four in-depth …

Publisher

IATED

Date

2020

Source

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=UelpwsoAAAAJ&citation_for_view=UelpwsoAAAAJ:_FxGoFyzp5QC

Language

English