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Holmes, Janet – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2015
In the process of transitioning from one institution or workplace to another, people often encounter new interactional norms and values. For those moving countries as well as workplaces, the transition may involve different cultural and societal norms and values; but even a move between organisations or workplace teams within a country may present…
Descriptors: Interaction, Communities of Practice, Workplace Learning, Group Membership
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Stephenson, Maxine; Anderson, Helen; Rio, Nane; Millward, Pam – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
This study investigated student perceptions of the significance of having a teacher education programme located in a culturally and ethnically diverse community in New Zealand. Four successive student cohorts were interviewed each year of their teacher preparation, and also during their first year of employment. Students identified location as a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Multicultural Education, Student Attitudes
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Sawir, Erlenawati; Marginson, Simon; Nyland, Chris; Ramia, Gaby; Rawlings-Sanaei, Felicity – Higher Education Policy, 2009
International education has generated complex problems of governance. As well as being beneficiaries of educational services and consumers of a product, international students are also migrants, workers and beings with civil rights. Arguably, the regulation of international student security as consumer protection fails to recognize this full range…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Problems, Civil Rights, International Education
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Jeffrey, Lynn; Hegarty, Bronwyn; Kelly, Oriel; Penman, Merrolee; Coburn, Dawn; McDonald, Jenny – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
The development of digital information literacy (DIL) has been slow in comparison to changes in information communication technologies, and this remains an issue for the higher education sector. Competency in such skills is essential to full participation in society and work. In addition, these skills are regarded as underpinning the ability to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Higher Education, Self Efficacy