Rate My Professor Clinton Golding

Clinton Golding is Professor of Higher Education in the Higher Education Development Centre (HEDC) at the University of Otago, where he also acts as Head of Department. His academic career spans multiple institutions in New Zealand and Australia, including senior lectureship at the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education and honorary fellowship at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education. Golding has taught in diverse faculties such as Medicine, Business, Arts, Education, and Land & Environments at universities including Auckland, Massey, Victoria, Melbourne, Otago, and Auckland University of Technology. Beyond academia, he has served as Philosopher in Residence and Thinking Coordinator in New Zealand schools, and co-founded the Philosophy for Children Association of New Zealand. He was the past chair of the New Zealand branch of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA).

Golding's research employs a philosophically-based approach to teaching, learning, and higher education practice. His specializations encompass education for thinking—such as critical thinking, clinical reasoning, reflection, and assessment—as well as interdisciplinary teaching and learning, postgraduate education, inquiry, dialogue, metaphilosophy, interdisciplinarity, and comparative epistemology. His scholarship has significant impact, with over 3,000 citations on Google Scholar. Notable publications include "Sharpening a tool for teaching: the zone of proximal development" (2014, cited 493 times, Teaching in Higher Education); "The stress paradox: how stress can be good for learning" (2020, cited 299 times, Medical Education); "Teaching clinical reasoning by making thinking visible: an action research project with allied health clinical educators" (2014, cited 242 times, BMC Medical Education); "Educating for critical thinking: thought-encouraging questions in a community of inquiry" (2011, cited 209 times, Higher Education Research & Development); "Good teaching as care in higher education" (2020, cited 207 times, Higher Education); and "What examiners do: What thesis students should know" (2014, cited 121 times, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education). Golding has received multiple teaching awards, including University of Otago teaching excellence recognition in 2018.