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Direct linkJess Mannion; Lori B. Vincent; Stephen D. Kroeger; Tricia Blee; Oisin Daly; Rhena Gallagher; Bryan Higgins; Mairead McHugh; Kerri Wolfer; Brittany E. Hayes – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
Introduction: The Relationships and Sexuality Research Team consists of researchers with learning disabilities who specialise in research on sexual citizenship and use visual and creative research methods. They are collaborating with academics on an innovative, cross-national, interdisciplinary and co-produced research project that brings together…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Sexuality, Researchers
Hill, Sophie – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
It has been stated that a criterion of a threshold concept is that it is troublesome or difficult to understand. However, not all difficult concepts are also threshold concepts. This article explores this difference through the context of students' difficulties in learning prosthetics and two models of describing threshold concepts. Students and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fundamental Concepts, Difficulty Level, Assistive Technology
Rees, Simon William; Kind, Vanessa; Newton, Douglas – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
Students commonly find the language of chemistry challenging and a barrier to developing understanding. This study investigated developments in chemical language understanding by a group of non-traditional students over the duration of a one year pre-undergraduate (Foundation) course at a UK university. The chemistry course was designed to include…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Foreign Countries, College Science, Introductory Courses
Campbell, John L.; Campbell, Robert H.; Longrigg, Jean; Boyes, Cath – SAGE Open, 2015
A three-country study was undertaken to assess the educational efficacy of two textbooks authored by the researcher. The same texts were distributed to groups of student nurses in the United Kingdom, Cambodia, and Kenya. A data collection tool was developed to obtain quantitative data and to ask open-ended questions on how useful readers found the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Textbook Evaluation, Nursing Education
Green, David A. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2010
Language can provide an entree into an academic discipline, but can also serve as a barrier to exclude newcomers. How does this apply to academic developers trying to promote teaching and learning on their campuses? Using an online survey, academics at two institutions in the UK and USA were asked to describe their typical and ideal reading in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disciplines, Academic Discourse, Jargon
Download full textBiesta, Gert J. J. – 2002
Over the past 2 decades, a shift has taken place in the language of education. The most prominent semantic marker of this shift is the increase in the use of the word learning and the subsequent decrease in the use of the word education. This short paper contends that the very language educators use to speak and write about education makes certain…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Jargon
Court, Stephen – 1996
This dictionary of higher education provides definitions of terms, organizations, abbreviations, and concepts specifically relevant to further and higher education in the United Kingdom. "Further education" is defined as below degree level education for students over age 16 and is often vocational. The dictionary also provides…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Definitions, Dictionaries, Educational Policy
