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Pinyan Lin; Steven J. Courtney; Paul Armstrong; Amanda McKay – Oxford Review of Education, 2025
In China, formal school groupings known as 'education collectives' have become one of the most common forms of school-to-school collaboration, promoted by policymakers to narrow the achievement gap between schools and optimise resource allocation. Previous research has focused on the purposes and achievements of education collectives rather than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Figurative Language
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Rachel Lynn Edford – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
In the wake of the COVID pandemic, many academic libraries sought virtual instruction options, like the embedded librarian model, bringing renewed interest to the topic. Debates defining embedded librarianship are plentiful and varied, but a review of the professional literature reveals a commonly used metaphor comparing embedded librarians to…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Services, Outreach Programs, COVID-19
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Xiao Han – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Foucauldian critical studies are cornucopian in illustrating how policy as discourse normalizes and yields human beings into made subjects in modern societies. However, Foucault's own slide from the 'terminal stage of discourse' pays little attention to the linguistic elements, and thus weakens the theory's potency in explaining the reality.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Administration, School Personnel
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Maitra, Debalina; Coley, Brooke – Qualitative Research Journal, 2022
Purpose: The goal of this study is to explore an immediate step in understanding the lived experiences of under-represented students through metaphor construction and possibly collect more in-depth data through photograph-based interviews. Design/Methodology/Approach: This article introduced photo-elicitation based narrative interviews as a…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Photography, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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Naimah – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This research shows the power of powerful metaphors in a language or linguistic perspective. It aimed at examining the important factors like reproduction of metaphors according to the theme of contestation, its duration, use of electronic media and problems associated with their forms, class and syntactic structures in a linguistic perspective.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Video Technology, Political Attitudes
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Smith, Christopher A. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
To maximize the advantages of virtual learning, the present study highlights the potential for Internet meme design and creation in English language learning (ELL) courses as an innovative activity that raises student agency, increases multimodal literacy, inculcates intercultural communication, and teaches idiomatic expression. Memes resonate a…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Power Structure
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Nordquist, Brice; Lueck, Amy – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
In this commentary, we use the occasion of the proliferation of dual enrollment to examine the discursive construction of difference between high school and college literacies, and its effects on teachers and students. This discursive divide has real, material consequences. It informs (and constrains) literacy practices and pedagogies, becomes a…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Literacy Education, High Schools, Colleges
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Guion Akdag, Emma; Swanson, Dalene M. – European Journal of Higher Education, 2018
This paper provides a critical discussion of internationalisation in Higher Education (HE), and exemplifies a process of uncovering the investments in power and ideology through the partial analysis of four strategic internationalisation documents at two Scottish Higher Education institutions, as part of an ongoing international study into the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Power Structure, International Education, Strategic Planning
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Matthews, Kelly E.; Cook-Sather, Alison; Acai, Anita; Dvorakova, Sam Lucie; Felten, Peter; Marquis, Elizabeth; Mercer-Mapstone, Lucy – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
A body of literature on students as partners (SaP) in higher education has emerged over the last decade that documents, shares, and evaluates SaP approaches. As is typical in emerging fields of inquiry, scholars differ regarding how they see the relationship between the developments in SaP practices and the theoretical explanations that guide,…
Descriptors: Praxis, Theory Practice Relationship, Teaching Methods, Higher Education
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Vital, Louise Michelle; Yao, Christina W. – Journal of International Students, 2021
Doctoral education is often lauded as a site of academic socialization and research training for nascent scholars. However, discussions of socialization seldom problematize the dangers of intellectual imperialism and methodological nationalism inherent in doctoral researcher socialization. As such, the traditional socialization practices for…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, Socialization
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Earick, Mary E. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2018
This article presents White social justice archetypes identified applying extended case study methods over 6 years at two Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) in the USA. Primary data collection was conducted during public departmental and program meetings, supported by meeting minutes and the documentation of counter White-hegemonic narratives…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Whites, Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language
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Montoya, Roberto; Matias, Cheryl E.; Nishi, Naomi W. M.; Sarcedo, Geneva L. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2016
In Greek mythology, the Chimera is a fire-breathing monster with three heads: one of a lion, one of a horned goat, and one of a powerful dragon. Of similar construction is the presence of three structures in US society, whiteness, patriarchy, and capitalism, which are overwhelmingly represented, valued, and espoused when examining areas of…
Descriptors: Whites, Social Systems, Social Class, Gender Differences
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McGloin, Colleen – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2014
In a previous article discussing the politics of language in Australian Indigenous Studies teaching and learning contexts, the author and her colleague stated their objective in writing that article was to ''instill'' a sense of the importance of the political nature of language to their student body (McGloin and Carlson 2013). They wanted to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Figurative Language, Foreign Policy
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Delgado, Teresa – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2015
Based on a real teaching experience in the classroom, the author reflects on the dynamics of gender, race/ethnicity, power, and privilege in the context of an undergraduate course in Christian sexual ethics. Through this analysis of pedagogical style and process initiated by a challenging moment at the midpoint of the semester, the author develops…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Gender Differences, Risk, Teaching Experience
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van Swet, Jacqueline; Armstrong, Ann Cheryl; Lloyd, Christine – Professional Development in Education, 2012
The scope of policies within universities and professional practices is becoming increasingly global and more and more networks of professionals and researchers are conducting collaborative programmes and research projects. Translating these collaborations into flourishing practices is often more challenging than initially anticipated, especially…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, International Cooperation, Cultural Differences, Educational Change
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