Quality Teaching in a Managerial Setting: Higher Education Challenges in Australia

• Main Authors: Therese Demediuk, Bernadine Van Gramberg
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Babes Bolyai University 2011-02-01
• Series: Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
• Online Access: https://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/269

<p>Australian universities face increased challenges in a global higher education marketplace. They have responded to this competitive environment by introducing greater efficiency and accountability measures. One key measure is the quality of teaching and in particular, the delivery of student-centred teaching. However, the reforms have changed the working lives of academic teachers who now have greater reporting and administrative responsibilities with less sense of collegiality in the sector. In these circumstances, it is not clear that teaching staff will share the same perceptions of quality teaching as their institutions expect. This paper examines the utility of role theory and learning organization theory as part of a project which will examine the ways in which implicit knowledge can be made explicit and shared in the organization as part of academic teachers’ roles. The paper hypothesizes that when academics share their perceptions of good teaching, universities will benefit from a coherent set of quality teaching indicators which are aligned with their organizational cultures.</p>