The phrase "academic questioning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the process of critically examining or inquiring into academic subjects or issues.
Example: "The seminar focused on academic questioning to encourage students to think deeply about their research topics."
Alternatives: "scholarly inquiry" or "intellectual questioning".
Among the most vivid: Hewlett-Packard dismissed Mr. Hewlett as "a musician and an academic," questioning his credibility and suggesting he was motivated more by emotion than reason.
My approach to innovation has evolved, for example, as I apply academic questioning and analysis to business problems.
This isn't idle, academic questioning; it's a live issue for our work.
We've seen various academics questioning America's commitment under the Taiwan Relations Act.
But one of the roles of a university is to challenge conventional truths -- and that means academics questioning the sacred and mentioning the unmentionable.
It was also far more prominent than academics questioning other parts of the "establishment" position, such as the economics of tackling climate change.
(Academics questioning why they should get involved might consult the work of literary critic Northrop Frye, who in his classic "Anatomy of Criticism" reminds his readers that "[a] public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory").
That view is also backed by a growing amount of academic research questioning the premise that lower capital gains rates promote growth.
There has been a widening spread of academic literature questioning the post-New Deal Court's treatment of economic activity, but one might doubt whether adding judicial voices to that challenge will add a great deal to its persuasiveness.
But the agreement also comes at a time when economists and academics are questioning the wisdom of making big-ticket bets on single companies.
But even as Mr. Bush has pointed to the scores, a growing number of teachers, parents and academics are questioning whether Texas's system is truly producing better students.
