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Title

Teaching Culture Indicators: Enhancing Quality Teaching

Authors

Erika Kustra, University of WindsorFollow
Ken N. Meadows, Western University
Debra Dawson, Western University
Catharine Dishke Hondzel, Western University
Lori Goff, McMaster University
Peter Wolf, University of Guelph
Donna Ellis, University of Waterloo
Jill Grose, Brock University
Paola Borin, Ryerson University
Sandy E. Hughes, Wilfrid Laurier University

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Description

Canadian postsecondary institutions are committed to providing students with high quality teaching and learning experiences. In recent years, provincial and institutional stakeholders have shifted their focus toward better supporting this effort and enhancing an evolving, teaching- and learning-centred institutional culture. As Cox, McIntosh, Reason, and Terenzini (2011) note, a culture with improved teaching quality is likely to lead to improved student engagement and learning. Researchers in the United States, Europe, and Australia have investigated institutional culture and its relationship to high quality teaching over the last 20 years (Aitken & Sorcinelli, 1994; Cox et al., 2011; Hodge, Nadler, Shore, & Taylor, 2011; Gosling, 2013; Harvey & Stensaker, 2008; Kallioinen, 2013; Hunt, 2013, Prosser, 2013); however, to date, there is little, if any, research done in this area in the Canadian context.

Publication Date

6-30-2014

Keywords

teaching and learning, institutional culture, teaching quality

Disciplines

Education | Higher Education | Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Comments

A Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities Initiative.

Productivity and Innovation Fund: WINDCPR-6-M-Full.

Recommended Citation

Kustra, Erika; Meadows, Ken N.; Dawson, Debra; Hondzel, Catharine Dishke; Goff, Lori; Wolf, Peter; Ellis, Donna; Grose, Jill; Borin, Paola; and Hughes, Sandy E., "Teaching Culture Indicators: Enhancing Quality Teaching" (2014). Centre for Teaching and Learning Reports.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ctlreports/5