Teaching Academic Integrity...?

Monday 13th October, 1-2pm

Abstract
Supervisors hold a key role in terms of influencing students’ awareness and acceptance of academic integrity standards. The proactive ethos to academic integrity places great expectations on academic staff and raises questions about how academics themselves view their roles and responsibilities. But what do supervisors themselves think about their role in teaching academic integrity: Is it their task or not?
In this talk, I explore academics’ conceptions of their role in promoting academic integrity in two countries, namely New Zealand and Finland. This research sought common configurations of perspectives or views that can help us understand the premises based on which academics approach the tasks and roles associated with teaching academic integrity.
It found that teachers at the researched institutions are united in respecting the importance of academic integrity, but not of one mind about what it is, how it should be taught, whose responsibility it is to teach it, and whether or not to involve administrative staff in suspect cases.
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