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Bailey, Lucy – Gender and Education, 2022
This paper examines the relationship between school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic and the ideology of intensive mothering through analysis of posts on lockdown learning in an online mothering community. It is argued that although the school closures seemed to constitute an endorsement and normalisation of intensive mothering ideology [Hays…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Mothers
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Cowie, Helen – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2018
This post script to an article originally written in 2011 takes account of changes that have occurred since then in the ways that children and young people use the social media. Although the fundamental message of the original article remains the same, the post script discusses key ways in which the article would differ if it were being written…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Coping, Social Media
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White, Rebekah C.; Remington, Anna – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Object personification is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human agents. In online forums, autistic individuals commonly report experiencing this phenomenon. Given that approximately half of all autistic individuals experience difficulties identifying their own emotions, the suggestion that object personification may be a feature of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Computer Mediated Communication
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Bond, Melissa; Bedenlier, Svenja; Buntins, Katja; Kerres, Michael; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2020
Developing, sustaining, and improving student engagement is of vital importance to higher education instructors. Educational technology has been linked to student engagement, and preservice and in-service teachers need to develop information communication and technology (ICT) skills and knowledge to apply them in the classroom as well as to…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Higher Education, Educational Technology, Educational Research
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Kennedy, Eileen; Gray, Morag – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2016
Online students use highly emotional language to describe their experiences, indicating that learners do feel a great deal online. This paper draws on Wetherell's exploration of affective practice to theorise learners' responses to the pedagogical and technological online environment. Findings of a research project that focused on two cohorts of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Bennett, Clare; Harden, Jane – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2014
Menarche is a significant milestone for young women, representing an important juncture between girlhood and maturation. The limited literature that exists suggests that a mother's reaction to her daughter's first periods can shape her experiences and perceptions of menstruation which, in turn, may impact on her self-image and, consequently,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Daughters, Physiology
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Parker, Michael; Winstone, Naomi E. – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2016
Recent approaches to assessment and feedback in higher education stress the importance of students' involvement in these processes, where effective reception of feedback is as important as effective delivery. Many interventions have been developed to support students' active use of feedback; however, students' engagement will be influenced by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Intervention