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Jennifer Rowsell; Anna Keune; Alison Buxton; Kylie Peppler – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
This article challenges an over-reliance on language as the primary means to communicate knowledge by adopting a language"less"ness approach to maker pedagogies and maker literacies. Having conducted makerspace and design-based research for some time, we separately and together noticed a productive relationship between wordless…
Descriptors: Design, Teaching Methods, Correlation, Handicrafts
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Yamashita, Yasunori; Giang, Hoang Ngan; Oyama, Tatsuo – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
This article reports on the performance of the research funding system of 61 Japanese national universities, specifically the Japanese Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (GASR) system. The competitive Japanese research funding system is quantitatively investigated and measured, focusing on the GASR fund and its relationship with the Japanese…
Descriptors: Performance, Universities, Foreign Countries, Mathematical Models
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Tight, Malcolm – European Journal of Higher Education, 2016
The idea of the research/teaching nexus has become of increasing importance in thinking about higher education over the last three decades. In essence, this idea recognizes the two key functions of higher education--teaching and research--and argues that they are, or should be, closely linked. This article explores the derivation and development…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research, Teaching (Occupation), Foreign Countries
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Faure, Guy; Blundo-Canto, Genowefa; Devaux-Spatarakis, Agathe; Le Guerroué, Jean Louis; Mathé, Syndhia; Temple, Ludovic; Toillier, Aurélie; Triomphe, Bernard; Hainzelin, Etienne – Research Evaluation, 2020
Over the last decade, societal pressure has increased on public research agencies to provide evidence that their research contributes to achieve development goals. To address this challenge, the French Agricultural Research Center for International Development (Cirad), developed an ex-post impact assessment method based on the impact pathway…
Descriptors: Social Change, Developing Nations, Agriculture, Research Projects
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Phipps, Alison – Applied Linguistics, 2012
Structuralism has dominated the field of applied linguistics, which has consequences for the positioning of applied linguistics "vis-a-vis" policy makers, educational practice, and also theoretical and methodological innovations. These consequences pertain to how the field advocates, takes sides, balances its descriptive modes with its discursive…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Ethnography, Applied Linguistics, Educational Practices
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Martin, Laura M. W. – Science Education, 2004
In recognition of the fact that science centers and other informal educational institutions can play a role in the reform of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, several major research and professional programs are currently underway. This article discusses one such effort, the Center for Informal Learning and…
Descriptors: Schools, Science Education, Developmental Psychology, Museums