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Challenges the dominant culture that research is all that counts.
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Builds a critical mass of academics who value teaching as well as
research and who are developing identities as teachers of their
disciplines alongside their researcher identities.
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Encourages academics to research their own teaching practices
and in this way builds the field of higher education studies.
“I have been involved for many years in academic development and
professional development in higher education and have always been an
advocate for lecturers being required to have an education qualification
as they do for schooling.”
Valuing teaching