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A moment of transformative learning: creating a disorientating dilemma for a health care student using video feedback (2012)
Journal Article
James, D. M., Collins, L. C., & Samoylova, E. (2012). A moment of transformative learning: creating a disorientating dilemma for a health care student using video feedback. Journal of Transformative Education, 10(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1541344613480562

This study describes a moment during clinical supervision when a student speech and language therapist reported that she had a moment of illumination that changed her trajectory from failing her clinical placement to passing it. The student’s self-re... Read More about A moment of transformative learning: creating a disorientating dilemma for a health care student using video feedback.

Effects of a Cognitive Acceleration Programme in a Low Socioeconomic High School in Regional Australia (2012)
Journal Article
Oliver, M., Venville, G., & Adey, P. (2012). Effects of a Cognitive Acceleration Programme in a Low Socioeconomic High School in Regional Australia. International Journal of Science Education, 34(9), 1393-1410. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2012.673241

This paper presents research on the effects of a cognitive acceleration intervention in science lessons on low socio-economic students in a government high school in regional Western Australia. Thinking Science Australia is a program currently being... Read More about Effects of a Cognitive Acceleration Programme in a Low Socioeconomic High School in Regional Australia.

Ubuntu, African Epistemology, and Development (2012)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2012). Ubuntu, African Epistemology, and Development. In H. K. Wright, & A. A. Abdi (Eds.), The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses (27-52). New York: Peter Lang

This chapter is a discussion in three parts and a closing argument. It begins with a discussion on development and references some of the philosophical difficulties with its Western-inspired conceptualization and ideological deployment in the African... Read More about Ubuntu, African Epistemology, and Development.

Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi (2012)
Journal Article
Lim, Z., Anderson, C., & McGrath, S. (2012). Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2012.01.004

The dominance of the human capital approach in vocational skills development has been increasingly questioned for being de-humanised and de-contextualised. Contrary to this trend, the discourse in health professional skills development has shown incr... Read More about Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi.

Vocational education and training for development: a policy in need of a theory? (2012)
Journal Article
McGrath, S. (2012). Vocational education and training for development: a policy in need of a theory?. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.12.001

The current decade has seen a significant return of interest in vocational education and training (VET) amongst the international policy community. This rise in policy and programmatic interest in VET's role in development, however, stands in contras... Read More about Vocational education and training for development: a policy in need of a theory?.

Knowing and doing vocational education and training reform: evidence, learning and the policy process (2012)
Journal Article
McGrath, S., & Lugg, R. (2012). Knowing and doing vocational education and training reform: evidence, learning and the policy process. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2012.02.004

Much of VET policy internationally draws on a toolkit that has been seriously questioned for its logic, international relevance and effectiveness by considerable amounts of academic research. Reflecting primarily on our experiences of leading a compl... Read More about Knowing and doing vocational education and training reform: evidence, learning and the policy process.

Parallaxes and paradoxes of Global Citizenship: Critical reflections and possibilities of praxis in/through an international online course. (2011)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2011). Parallaxes and paradoxes of Global Citizenship: Critical reflections and possibilities of praxis in/through an international online course. In L. Shultz, A. A. Abdi, & G. H. Richardson (Eds.), Global Citizenship Education in Post Secondary Institutions: Theories, Practices, Policies (120-139). New York: Peter Lang

"Global citizenship" has become a popular term in recent times. Often its deployment is intended to evoke the full ambit of intersectionalities of the global justices. An interest in the concept and its rationalization in the contemporary era are mar... Read More about Parallaxes and paradoxes of Global Citizenship: Critical reflections and possibilities of praxis in/through an international online course..

Typical Errors for Fraction Addition and Subtraction-A Review of Empirical Error Analysis (2011)
Journal Article
Eichelmann, A., Narciss, S., Schnaubert, L., & Melis, E. (2012). Typical Errors for Fraction Addition and Subtraction-A Review of Empirical Error Analysis. Journal für Mathematik-Didaktik, 33(1), 29-57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13138-011-0031-5

Fraction tasks are challenging for many pupils. Investigating the sources of these challenges and the typical errors related to them is an essential prerequisite for developing instructions or interventions which foster the acquisition of knowledge a... Read More about Typical Errors for Fraction Addition and Subtraction-A Review of Empirical Error Analysis.