All Outputs (25)

The Rising ‘China Model’ of Educational Cooperation with Africa (2013)
Book Chapter

Globalization and the economic growth of some developing countries are not new issues. Moreover, when globalization takes the form of a knowledge-based economy, education is increasingly becoming a crucial factor in the contemporary neo-liberal marke... Read More about The Rising ‘China Model’ of Educational Cooperation with Africa.

An e-maturity analysis explains intention–behavior disjunctions in technology adoption in UK schools (2013)
Journal Article

This paper addresses the problem of non-significant intention–behavior effects in educational technology adoption, based on a reanalysis of data from the Impact09 project, a UK-government funded evaluation of technology use in high schools in England... Read More about An e-maturity analysis explains intention–behavior disjunctions in technology adoption in UK schools.

Neoliberalism, education and citizenship rights of unemployed youth in post-apartheid South Africa (2013)
Journal Article

Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning teachers of English in times of change (2013)
Journal Article

Beginning teachers of English are entering a profession in which their subject is increasingly framed according to prescriptive models of literacy. This is happening at a time of shift away from university ITE provision towards schoolled training. We... Read More about Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning teachers of English in times of change.

Representations of a high-quality system of undergraduate education in English higher education policy documents (2013)
Journal Article

This article examines the ways in which a high-quality system of undergraduate education is represented in recent policy documents from a range of actors interested in higher education. Drawing on Basil Bernstein's ideas, the authors conceptualise th... Read More about Representations of a high-quality system of undergraduate education in English higher education policy documents.

Exploring feedback and student characteristics relevant for personalizing feedback strategies (2013)
Journal Article

Personalized tutoring feedback is a powerful method that expert human tutors apply when helping students to optimize their learning. Thus, research on tutoring feedback strategies tailoring feedback according to important factors of the learning proc... Read More about Exploring feedback and student characteristics relevant for personalizing feedback strategies.

Children, film and literacy (2013)
Book

Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and unfamiliar, fantasy and everyday narratives and this narr... Read More about Children, film and literacy.

Computer-supported collaborative learning with digital video cases in teacher education: the impact of teaching experience on knowledge convergence (2013)
Journal Article

Case-based learning is ascribed high potential with respect to the education of pre-service teachers as well as the further education of experienced in-service teachers, as it can provide opportunities for the application of professional knowledge to... Read More about Computer-supported collaborative learning with digital video cases in teacher education: the impact of teaching experience on knowledge convergence.

How do students’ accounts of sociology change over the course of their undergraduate degrees? (2013)
Journal Article

In this article we examine how students’ accounts of the discipline of sociology change over the course of their undergraduate degrees. Based on a phenomenographic analysis of 86 interviews with 32 sociology and criminology students over the course o... Read More about How do students’ accounts of sociology change over the course of their undergraduate degrees?.

Psychological growth in aging Vietnam veterans: redefining shame and betrayal (2013)
Journal Article

This study offers alternative interpretations of war-related distress embedded within the social and political context of the Vietnam War. Subjective interpretations from aging Vietnam veterans were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological anal... Read More about Psychological growth in aging Vietnam veterans: redefining shame and betrayal.

The field of digital technology research (2013)
Book Chapter

Teaching the disciplines in Education Studies (2013)
Report

Accommodating to motor difficulties and communication impairments in people with autism: the MORE intervention model (2013)
Journal Article

Motor impairment in individuals with autism potentially impacts on their development in all spheres. This paper is particularly concerned with people with severe communication impairments suggesting that recognition of the impact of motor impairments... Read More about Accommodating to motor difficulties and communication impairments in people with autism: the MORE intervention model.

Exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions (2013)
Journal Article

Several early learning programmes have targeted children’s reading, particularly their relationships with books. One, Bookstart, provided free books to babies attending their 8-month health check at local clinics. Study of this programme suggested th... Read More about Exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions.

Learning to argue in mathematics: effects of heuristic worked examples and CSCL scripts on transactive argumentation (2013)
Book Chapter

A previous study has shown that both CSCL scripts and heuristic worked examples implemented in a CSCL environment were effective to fostering students' acquisition of argumentation skills in the context of mathematical proof tasks (Kollar, et al. 201... Read More about Learning to argue in mathematics: effects of heuristic worked examples and CSCL scripts on transactive argumentation.

Scale in education research: towards a multi-scale methodology (2013)
Journal Article

This article explores some theoretical and methodological problems concerned with scale in education research through a critique of a recent mixed-method project. The project was framed by scale metaphors drawn from the physical and earth sciences a... Read More about Scale in education research: towards a multi-scale methodology.

Handwriting automaticity: the search for performance thresholds (2013)
Journal Article

Although handwriting has a fairly low status in literacy education, evidence is accumulating that it has an important role in written composition. In particular, handwriting automaticity appears to relate to success in composition. This relationship... Read More about Handwriting automaticity: the search for performance thresholds.

A Change of Perspective: Seeing Through Children at the Front of the Classroom, to Seeing Children from the Back of the Classroom (2013)
Journal Article

This article considers a noted trend by teacher educators at a South African University where student teachers seem to have very little connection with children they teach on their teaching practicals. This lack of engagement and ability to see indiv... Read More about A Change of Perspective: Seeing Through Children at the Front of the Classroom, to Seeing Children from the Back of the Classroom.

Resisting reductionism in mathematics pedagogy (2013)
Journal Article

Although breaking down a mathematical problem into smaller parts can often be an effective solution strategy, when the same reductionist approach is applied to mathematics pedagogy the effects are far from beneficial for students. Mathematics pedagog... Read More about Resisting reductionism in mathematics pedagogy.

Lifelong learning: national policies in the European perspective (2013)
Book Chapter