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Dixon, Fiona Jean; Pilkington, Ruth – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
This study examines the rise of excellence in (Further Education) FE and the resulting effects on its construction and measurement in two colleges in the North West of England. The expansion of excellence is being driven by the government's desire to improve economic prosperity through increased educational success. Whilst excellence is portrayed…
Descriptors: Excellence in Education, Foreign Countries, Continuing Education, Measurement
Walsh, Robert; Wyatt, Mark – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Teachers in various contexts worldwide are sometimes unfairly criticized for not putting teaching methods developed for the well-resourced classrooms of Western countries into practice. Factors such as the teachers' "misconceptualizations" of "imported" methods, including Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), are often blamed,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Policy, Second Language Learning
Gibney, Janette – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2014
This action research project looks at what happened when a small group of adult numeracy teachers with widely different experiences of learning and teaching mathematics explored their own informal numeracy practices and undertook a series of collaborative mathematical tasks. Evidence from qualitative data collected during the enquiry suggests that…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Teaching Experience, Adult Educators, Task Analysis
Hartnett, Maggie; St. George, Alison; Dron, Jon – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2011
This paper reports on one aspect of a larger case study that explores the nature of motivation to learn in an online distance environment. The study adopts self-determination theory (SDT) as a theoretical framework and focuses particularly on the underlying concepts of autonomy and competence. These are used to investigate ways in which certain…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Case Studies