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Ciaran O'Sullivan; Michael Grove; Ciarán Mac an Bhaird; Peter Mulligan; Kirsten Pfeiffer – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2024
Tutors play an important role in effective Mathematics Learning Support, and ensuring good initial training and development is key. Typically, in the UK and Ireland, tutors do not gain any formal recognition for the training they receive. This paper details a four competences model of training for tutors and presents the analysis of feedback from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutor Training, Tutors, Tutoring
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Rospigliosi, Asher; Bourner, Tom – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2021
What do people need to learn to engage actively in social action for neighbourhood improvement or development? How important is emergent learning relative to planned learning in this context? Where does first-person knowledge fit into the body of knowledge required for success in bringing about change for the better in neighbourhoods through…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Teamwork, Social Change, Social Action
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Macdonald, Sheila; Watson, Jodi – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
This article explores a cross-disciplinary collaboration within English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision for adults born outside the United Kingdom (UK). By foregrounding collaborative practice between a language practitioner and an artist, we offer a practical experience of working beyond and besides language which offers both an…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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McAteer, Mary; Wood, Lesley – South African Journal of Education, 2018
The need to work in partnership with communities in a meaningful and impactful way has become a core part of university planning in many countries around the world. In the Global South, the potential for the Eurocentric knowledges and power structures to dominate such partnerships is pervasive. This article reports on findings of a participatory…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Universities, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Hill, Geof; Vaughan, Sian – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
The authors' lived experience of devising a professional development programme for research supervisors and securing SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association) accreditation informs this paper. Our first purpose is to outline the programme and discuss its uniqueness in using a community of practice model in conjunction with practitioner…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Accreditation (Institutions), Supervisory Training, Program Development
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Parsons, Sarah; Guldberg, Karen; Porayska-Pomsta, Kaska; Lee, Rachael – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2015
Storytelling is a powerful means of expression especially for voices that may be difficult to hear or represent in typical ways. This paper reports and reflects on our experiences of co-creating digital stories with school practitioners in a project focusing on embedding innovative technologies for children on the autism spectrum in classroom…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Autism, Teaching Methods, Best Practices
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MacKinnon, Teresa – Research-publishing.net, 2013
This case study investigates the implementation of a virtual learning environment designed for language teachers for an institution-wide language programme in a UK higher education institution. This development has taken place over a 3 year period and included a pilot virtual learning environment for 300, followed by a full implementation to more…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Program Development, Sustainability, Language Teachers
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Schlicht, Patricia – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2013
In today's world where tuition fees continue to rise rapidly and the demand for higher education increases in both the developing and developed world, it is important to find additional and alternative learning pathways that learners can afford. Traditional education as we have known it has begun to change, allowing for new parallel learning…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Open Education, Computer Uses in Education, Shared Resources and Services
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Bloodworth, Mike – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2014
During my first year of practice as a new action learning facilitator undertaking an "ILM Level 5 Certificate in Action Learning Facilitation", an innovative Individual Service Fund pilot was launched by "Certitude", the organisation for which I work. The aim of this pilot was to enable people with learning disabilities and…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Facilitators (Individuals), Phenomenology, Program Descriptions
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Clarke, Paul – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2010
This article seeks to provide an outline of the basic ideas and approaches used by the Incredible Edible programme, a community enterprise that is based in the United Kingdom. To do this the author briefly (1) defines the context for the programme, (2) defines the concepts that inform the programme, (3) and illustrates some of the action of the…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Program Development
Stanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2011
In the second article in a series marking 90 years of NIACE support for adult learning, the author charts the changing shape of adult education in the decades following the Second World War, and the Institute's emergence as a "major non-governmental force" in the development of adult education. In 1983 the NIAE changed its name to the…
Descriptors: Community Education, Continuing Education, Adult Learning, Vocational Education
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Moran, Dominique; Round, John – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2010
In the 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, teaching post-socialist transition to undergraduate students has become increasingly challenging. This paper relates the development, planning and operation of a fieldwork module in Moscow, for Year Three geography undergraduates. It argues that "on-street" teaching and imaginative use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction, Field Experience Programs
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Hautecoeur, Jean-Paul, Ed. – 1992
This collection contains 17 papers presented at a seminar on literacy strategies in the community movement, held in Namur, Belgium, in 1991. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Hautecoeur); "Illiteracy: Direction? Action? Results?" (Hautecoeur); "Basic Education and Personal Development Strategies"…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Zou, Bin; Xing, Minjie; Wang, Yuping; Sun, Mingyu; Xiang, Catherine H. – IGI Global, 2013
Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Technological Advances highlights new research and an original framework that brings together foreign language teaching, experiments and testing practices that utilize the most recent and widely used e-learning resources. This comprehensive collection of research will offer linguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Web 2.0 Technologies
Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France). – 1985
This volume, the third in a series of three, contains the reports of four European experiments that were part of a process of cooperative monitoring of a project on adult education and community development. The theme of these experiments is "evolution of the social and cultural roles of women and men." The four experiments are the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Organizations, Developed Nations
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