Prof. Dr. Carolin Kreber received her combined BA/BEd (specialising in History and English) from the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, Germany in 1990, her master’s degree in Adult Education and Curriculum Theory from Brock University in Southern Ontario in 1993 and a doctorate (PhD) in Higher Education from the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto (OISE/UT), Canada, in 1997. The same year she accepted her first tenure-track academic appointment in Adult and Higher Education at the University of Alberta (Department of Educational Policy Studies), in Edmonton, Canada, where she obtained tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001.
Prior to her appointment with the University of Alberta, and while pursuing doctoral studies at OISE/UT, Prof. Dr. Carolin Kreber was a lecturer at Brock University teaching courses in adult education and research methodology. She has been Professor at the University of Edinburgh since January 2005. From 2005-2010 she directed the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment, located in the former Department of Higher and Community Education. From 2012 – 2015 she was the Director of the Higher Education Research Group (HERG). Since 2015 she is Dean, School of Professional Studies at Cape Breton University in Canada (where she is currently also interim Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences). Her academic interests focus on adult and higher education, perspectives on professionalism and professional practices, and, increasingly, the application of social philosophy to education.
Selected recent publications
- Educating for Civic-mindedness : Nurturing authentic professional identities through transformative higher education (182 pages) 16 Jun 2016
Book/Report types › Book (Published) - Transforming Employment-Oriented Adult Education to Foster Arendtian Action: : Rebuilding Bridges Between Community and Vocational Education May 2015 In: Adult Education Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 100-115
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741713614566674
Contribution To journal › Article (Published) - Furthering the ‘theory debate’ in the scholarship of teaching : A proposal based on MacIntyre’s account of practices 2015 In: Canadian Journal of Higher Education, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 99-115
Contribution To journal › Article (Published) - The ‘civic-minded’ professional? An exploration through Hannah Arendt’s ‘vita activa’. 2015 In: Educational Philosophy and Theory
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2014.963492
Contribution To journal › Article (Published) - Professionalization of the University and the Profession as Macintyrean Practice 2014 In: Studies in Philosophy and Education
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11217-014-9453-0
Contribution To journal › Article (Published) - Reviving the ancient virtues in the scholarship of teaching, with a slight critical twist 2014 In: Higher Education Research & Development
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2014.973384
Contribution To journal › Article (Published) - Rationalising the nature of ‘graduateness’ through philosophical accounts of authenticity. (11 pages) 2014 In: Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 90-100
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2013.860114
Contribution To journal › Article (Published) - Flourishing amid strangeness and uncertainty: Exploring the meaning of ‘graduateness’ and its challenges for assessment’ 2014
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Published) - Being an international academic: A phenomenological study of academic migrants adjusting to working and living in Scotland 2014
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Published) - Lecturers' and students' conceptions of authenticity in teaching and actual teacher actions and attributes students perceive as helpful (25 pages) Feb 2013 In: Higher Education, pp. 1-25
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10734-013-9616-x
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