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Smyth, John – Management in Education, 2012
The Australian school context has been something of a failed test case of trying to organise schooling around the tenets of the market as a regulating mechanism. The result has been an intensification of social stratification as the already "disadvantaged" miss out yet again in education. This short paper argues that what is needed to…
Descriptors: Social Stratification, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Participation
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Enright, Eimear; O'Sullivan, Mary – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2013
Popular physical culture serves as a site, subject and medium for young people's learning (Sandford & Rich, 2006) and impacts their relationship with physical education, physical activity and the construction of their embodied identities. This paper addresses the potential of scrapbooking as a pedagogical and methodological tool to facilitate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Culture, Physical Education, Action Research
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Malm, Birgitte; Lofgren, Horst – Journal of Peace Education, 2007
DRACON (DRAma for CONflict management) is an interdisciplinary and comparative action research project aimed at improving conflict handling among adolescent schoolchildren through the use of educational drama. The main purpose of our research has been to develop an integrated programme using conflict management as the theory and practice, and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Conflict, Diaries, Conflict Resolution
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers