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Xerri, Daniel – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2017
Interviews in qualitative research may sometimes employ stimulus material as a means of eliciting richer data. However, scant consideration has been given to the use of poetry for this purpose, especially within the field of poetry education research. This article seeks to address the gap in the literature by illustrating how the use of poetry as…
Descriptors: Poetry, Questioning Techniques, Discussion, Beliefs
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Carless, David – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
This paper proposes a model of learning-oriented assessment to inform assessment theory and practice. The model focuses on three interrelated processes: the assessment tasks which students undertake; students' development of self-evaluative capacities; and student engagement with feedback. These three strands are explored through the analysis of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Feedback (Response), Learner Engagement
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Srinivas, Tejaswinhi; Meenan, Chelsea E.; Drogin, Elizabeth; DePrince, Anne P. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2015
This article describes the development and psychometric properties of the Community Impact Scale (CIS), a measure of benefits and costs of community-university partnerships across a range of outcomes as perceived by community partners. Scale development was carried out in two phases: (a) item generation, through which the research team, in close…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education
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Long, Jennifer – Journal of Social Science Education, 2015
This paper explores first-hand experiences of citizenship education specifically-designed for immigrants from the perspective of native Dutch settlement workers and volunteers in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Based on eight months of ethnographic research and in-depth interviews with settlement workers, this article explores how these "minor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Citizenship Education
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Johnson, Lauri; Campbell-Stephens, Rosemary – Journal of Educational Administration, 2013
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to discuss the views of black and ethnic minority school leaders about the "Investing in Diversity" program, a black-led program developed in 2004 to address the underrepresentation of black leaders in the London schools. Major themes are identified from interviews with black and South Asian women…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Asians, Minority Groups
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Carmel, Justin H.; Jessa, Yasmin; Yezierski, Ellen J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
A liberal education curriculum requires discipline-specific courses that develop intellectual and practical skills. With this promise of development, it is crucial that instruction focuses on content knowledge as well as the thinking patterns associated with the content. In chemistry, scientific reasoning is one such skill that students should…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, Science Education, College Science, Chemistry
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Bryer, Theo – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2013
This account of the making and sharing of self-authored digital videos in a Year 5 classroom focuses on the way that the children appear to be influenced by their awareness of audience. Drawing on evidence of video observation, written and moving image texts produced by the children and semi-structured interviews with them, I examine the factors…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Video Technology, Audiences, Observation
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Formosinho, João; Figueiredo, Irene – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2014
This article presents an alternative participatory pedagogy in Early Years as a contribution to the promotion of equity and social justice for children, particularly those from ethnic minorities and low income families, enhancing their chances of educational success. The development of mass education was implemented in many countries by…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Social Justice, Equal Education, Minority Group Children
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Loveridge, J.; Rosewarne, S.; Shuker, M. J.; Barker, A.; Nager, J. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
This article draws on data from research on how early childhood centres in Aotearoa New Zealand are responding to diversity. The historical and contemporary contexts which are shaping possible responses to diversity are discussed. Two case studies of a parent-led and a teacher-led centre are presented. It is argued that it is important to be more…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Position Papers
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Formosa, Marvin – Educational Gerontology, 2012
This article reports a critical analysis of older adult education in Malta. In educational gerontology, a critical perspective demands the exposure of how relations of power and inequality, in their myriad forms, combinations, and complexities, are manifest in late-life learning initiatives. Fieldwork conducted at the University of the Third Age…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Adult Education, Ideology, Criticism
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Tzou, Carrie T.; Bell, Philip – Ethnography and Education, 2012
In this study, we argue that in order to understand the underlying causes of inequities in education, we need to look outside specific educational settings to the larger social, historical and political structures behind those inequities. Therefore, in this work we take a social justice perspective to look at the relationship between environmental…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Environmental Education, Political Power, Classification
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Taylor, Ann; Puchner, Laurel D.; Powell, Margaret B.; Harris, Valorie; Marshall, Rick – Educational Action Research, 2012
Three teacher educators worked at a US community college with two adult education staff on a grant-supported project bridging high school dropouts from adult education to employment. The teacher educators' apparently simple task of facilitating grant participants' engagement with action research became confusingly challenging. The consultants…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Action Research, Dropouts, Adult Education
Naidu, Sham – Online Submission, 2012
In this article, the "researcher" narrates the issues faced by novice researchers in choosing the correct lenses to conduct research when searching for the truth via the use of qualitative methodology. It is argued that choosing an appropriate research approach and methodology can be described as an "arduous" journey. For the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Qualitative Research, Ethnography
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Harnett, Jenny – Educational Action Research, 2012
This article reports on an action research project in which two New Zealand classroom teachers worked with a university researcher to investigate the effects of their knowledge, thinking, and beliefs on the ways in which they mediated students' learning in teacher-student interactions. Working in a small community of practice over a two-year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Action Research, Semi Structured Interviews
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Miller, David; Robertson, Derek; Hudson, Alison; Shimi, Jill – Computers in the Schools, 2012
In this article we look at the links between early years pedagogy and the use of digital game-based learning. Early years education is a distinctive phase of the education system in many countries, generally covering the age range from 3-6 or 7 years. In the United Kingdom, it tends to bridge preschool and the first two years in primary school.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Educational Games, Video Games
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