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Vickel Narayan; Thomas Cochrane; Todd Stretton; Nawal Chanane; Mehrasa Alizadeh; James Birt; Elisa Bone; Neil Cowie; Chris Deneen; Meredith Hinze; David Sinfield; Tom Worthington; Paul Goldacre; Robert Vanderburg – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This paper explores the development of a special interest group bound by common interests, experiences, and access to opportunities in mobile learning as a model of a networked academic development community. With core members spanning eleven educational institutes across three continents, the Mobile Learning Special Interest Group (MLSIG) was…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Communities of Practice, Networks, Electronic Learning
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Tuck, Eve – High School Journal, 2012
This article discusses competing perspectives on the value of the General Educational Development (GED) credential. Although scholars and journalists debate the worth of the credential, urban youth continue to pursue the GED, especially as proxy for inadequate schooling. Using qualitative data from a participatory action research project, the…
Descriptors: Credentials, Educational Development, Action Research, Educational Researchers
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Konstantinovskii, D. L. – Russian Education and Society, 2009
In this article, the author offers reflections on the sociology of education, beginning with a discussion on the trajectory of the rise of the sociology of education in Russia. The author examines how the sociology of education in Russia looks compared to the rest of the world. The sociological study of education in Russia and the Soviet Union has…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Foreign Countries, Reflection, Educational Development