Table 3 Context: Department - quotations
Teachers with high scores on Teacher-centredness and low scores on ‘Appreciation of Active Learning’ | Teachers with low scores on Teacher-centredness and high or intermediate scores on ‘Appreciation of Active Learning’ | |
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Leadership department chairs | ‘In our department it is not as straigthforward as that, because by providing education … for our department, education is an important reason for its existence …. So, providing education is in fact appreciated, but besides that it is of course also appreciated very much if I have a good scientific output.’ (A-6) | ‘Department chairs who are completely dedicated to education, yes…, that is not always possible of course, but it is extremely important to involve and engage the other members of the department. Yes, it is very important actually. In fact, I am not sure whether people are sufficiently aware of this. (A-2) |
Affordances and support | ‘If I know that one of my colleagues developed a course on lungs and I am to give …uh… a lecture on that part of the lungs, of course I contact him and discuss what he did, so I can elaborate on that….’ (M-1) | ‘(about department chairs)… they decide if time is allowed to staff members for teaching. They decide who may follow a course … or whether someone gets the opportunity to distinguish himself..’ (A-2) |