Structure, Reflexivity and Their Interplay: Understanding University Faculty Members' Implementation of Teaching Excellence

Autor/in	Zhuang, Tengteng
Titel	Structure, Reflexivity and Their Interplay: Understanding University Faculty Members' Implementation of Teaching Excellence
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44 (2023) 1, S.78-96 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Zhuang, Tengteng)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2022.2132470
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; College Faculty; Teacher Effectiveness; Realism; Social Theories; Reflection; Evidence Based Practice; Faculty Workload; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Fakultät; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Realismus; Gesellschaftstheorie
Abstract	Against the backdrop of teaching being downplayed in higher education, this study unravels how the university faculty members' implementation of teaching excellence is influenced by the interplay of objective structural conditionings and subjective internal deliberations, drawing upon Margaret Archer's social realist framework and her distinction between human reflexive modalities. By exploring 21 faculty members from three Chinese universities with different structural constraints and enablements, the study shows that dual modalities are manifest in all faculty members, among which meta-reflexivity applies to everyone. However, autonomous reflexivity and communicative reflexivity play more dominant roles in generating purposeful actions under the same structure. Furthermore, some structural forces are non-negotiable constraints, and people having the same reflexivity modality may act differently under different structural conditionings. The study calls for universities to cater to both structural arrangements and reflexive deliberations to transform constraints into enablements for teaching excellence. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01