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Wong, Sandie; Murray, E.; Rivalland, C.; Monk, H.; Piazza-McFarland, L.; Daniel, G. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2014
Growing recognition of the complexity of children's lives has led to strong advocacy in education research literature for greater collaboration between researchers from different paradigms to address the "wicked" problems that face contemporary children and families. There is little literature, however, exploring how collaboration works…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Researchers, Communities of Practice, Early Childhood Education
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Tamim, Suha R.; Grant, Michael M. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
This qualitative study aimed at exploring how health professionals use instructional design principles to create health education interventions. A purposeful sample of 12 participants was selected, using criterion and snowballing sampling strategies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data, which were later analyzed through…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Semi Structured Interviews, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Design
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Powietrzynska, Malgorzata; Gangji, Al-Karim H. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2016
In this manuscript we bring to focus student perceptions of salience (or lack of thereof) of emotions in the undergraduate conceptual physics course (in the teacher education program) and their relevance to teaching and learning. Our analysis of student responses to the Mindfulness in Education Heuristic constitutes a feedback loop affording the…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Science Instruction
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Lambic, Dragan; Lazovic, Bojana; Djenic, Aleksandar; Maric, Miroslav – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
In this paper, a new approach for the formation of four-member collaborative learning groups is presented. Group formation is presented by the mathematical optimization problem. Based on the proposed approach and the variable neighbourhood search (VNS) algorithm, the application that solves the presented problem and provides the appropriate…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics, Interpersonal Relationship
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Elwick, Sheena – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2015
This article offers a methodological reflection on how "baby-cam" enhanced ethically reflective attitudes in a large-scale research project that set out to research with infants in Australian early childhood education and care settings. By juxtaposing digital images produced by two different digital-camera technologies and drawing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Preschool Children, Participatory Research
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Tan, Ai-Girl – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
Arthur Cropley's view on convergent thinking is reviewed, with reflections on the relations of divergent and convergent processes and the roles of knowledge and convergent creativity. While divergence is about considering and generating multiplicity, possibility, difference, originality, and so on; convergence is about relating, associating,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Knowledge Level, Cognitive Processes
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Lau, Kung Wong; Lee, Pui Yuen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
This paper discusses the roles of simulation in creativity education and how to apply immersive virtual environments to enhance students' learning experiences in university, through the provision of interactive simulations. An empirical study of a simulated virtual reality was carried out in order to investigate the effectiveness of providing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Simulation, College Students, Creative Thinking
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Powietrzynska, Malgorzata; Tobin, Kenneth; Alexakos, Konstantinos – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
We address the nature of mindfulness and its salience to education generally and to science education specifically. In a context of the historical embeddedness of mindfulness in Buddhism we discuss research in social neuroscience, presenting evidence for neuronal plasticity of the brain and six emotional styles, which are not biologically…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Metacognition, Emotional Response, Science Curriculum
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Forte, Andrea – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2015
Widespread participation in collaborative writing and public discourse on blogs, news sites, Wikipedia and other online information sources is creating a new class of information literacy skills. In a series of qualitative studies, I examined high school students' information assessment practices as they helped build a collaborative online…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, High School Students, Qualitative Research, Collaborative Writing
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Sperti, Silvia – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
ELF cross-cultural interactions and mediation processes in specialized migration settings are often characterized by 'gatekeeping' asymmetries between the participants involved challenging a successful meaning negotiation (Guido, 2008). The exploration of migration encounters (Sperti, 2017) is particularly useful in the analysis of naturally…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Intercultural Communication, Immigration, English (Second Language)
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Moschetti, Mauro C.; Snaider, Carolina – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
Few studies have explored how schools respond to competition in socially embedded education quasi-markets. This study focuses on how state-subsidized privately-run low-fee schools (S-LFPSs) compete with free public schools in some of the poorest neighborhoods of the City of Buenos Aires. In particular, we explore how S-LFPSs follow different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Heuristics, Competition
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Ridhahani – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2017
This qualitative research aims to describe the strategies applied by female parliamentary candidates to develop empathy values to gain constituent support in the legislative general election in 2014. Research subjects comprise 12 female members of parliament from seven regencies/cities in South Kalimantan who were chosen from different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Federal Government, Political Candidates
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Sewerin, Thomas; Holmberg, Robert – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
This case study of development in a technical university situates distributed leadership in higher education in an organizational perspective. Analysis of documentation from development programs and interviews with 10 faculty members showed that leadership practices were related to different institutional logics prominent in four key activities in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Leadership Styles, Leadership Responsibility
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Cooper, Trudi; Scriven, Rebecca – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
The case study discussed in this article examines how the community of inquiry (CoI) model (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2010) was used to redesign the digital learning environment in the context of an Australian university. Some purposes were to replicate features of a traditional classroom and to support collaboration between professionals…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Case Studies
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Lee, Young-Jin – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a quantitative model of problem solving performance of students in the computer-based mathematics learning environment. Design/methodology/approach: Regularized logistic regression was used to create a quantitative model of problem solving performance of students that predicts whether students can…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Educational Environment, Mathematics Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
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