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Ahn, Song-ee – Journal of Research in International Education, 2011
This article explores how Korean exchange students organized their studies during exchange programs in Swedish higher education. For most students, the programs became a disordered period in relation to their education. The value of exchange studies seems mainly to be extra-curricular. Drawing upon actor network theory, the article argues that the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Exchange Programs, Student Exchange Programs, Study Abroad
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Wihlborg, Monne – European Educational Research Journal, 2009
What are the pedagogical impacts of internationalisation on the development of higher education in Europe? How can we proceed in this process and take a pedagogical stance on the issue? This theoretical article is partly based on a series of empirical studies, conducted by the author, investigating students' and teachers' experiences and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Qualitative Research, Educational Research
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Boustedt, Jonas – Computer Science Education, 2009
The current paper describes an empirical study with the aim of producing insights about how students experience programming and software engineering. The research aims to investigate the students' world, and hence, we have chosen a phenomenographic approach. Our questions focus on the students' experiences of concepts related to a realistic…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Programming, Internet, Student Experience
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Thune, Michael; Eckerdal, Anna – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
The present work has its focus on university-level engineering education students that do not intend to major in computer science but still have to take a mandatory programming course. Phenomenography and variation theory are applied to empirical data from a study of students' conceptions of computer programming. A phenomenographic outcome space…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Programming Languages, Programming, Phenomenology
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Avdic, Anders; Eklund, Anders – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2010
The Internet has made it possible for students to access a vast amount of high-quality references when writing papers. Yet research has shown that the use of reference databases is poor and the quality of student papers is consequently often below expectation. The objective of this article is twofold. First, it aims to describe the problems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Databases, Student Experience, Reference Materials
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Rorrison, Doreen – Educational Studies, 2010
This paper reports on research that suggests a new view of assessment of the practicum in teacher education. By transcending the stereotypes of "failing" student teachers who do not achieve traditional benchmarks, this new lens highlights the complexity, diversity and inequality of experiences through listening to the voices of the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Practicums, Mentors, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Steen, Odd Inge – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2009
Little research has been done on instructing student teachers by means of field studies in developing countries. Herein, I argue that sending geography students on such expeditions provides them with valuable perspectives, connections and improved knowledge, especially if they experience personal involvement and participation in addition to…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Student Teachers, Field Studies, Foreign Countries
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Bergmark, Ulrika; Kostenius, Catrine – Improving Schools, 2009
This article focuses on student participation in the research process as a contribution to school improvement. The specific aim of this article was to explore students' participation in different phases of a research process and discuss how their participation can contribute to school improvement. Based on a life-world phenomenological ontology,…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Action Research, Student Participation, Educational Improvement
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Nelson, Anders; Bengtsson, Jeanette – Higher Education Research and Development, 2008
The study aimed to investigate how students in an introductory educational sciences course experienced and understood their own actorship during the course, in relation to conditions for learning created by the teachers. The analyses were based on students' answers to an evaluation questionnaire that produced both quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Introductory Courses, Student Role, Cognitive Style
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Dahlgren, Madeleine Abrandt; Reid, Anna; Dahlgren, Lars Owe; Petocz, Peter – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2008
At the core of higher education is the experience of students whose focus for learning is often directed towards their future employability. In this paper, we explore the intersections between two large international research projects involving over 500 students. Interviews with students yielded their conceptions of learning and work in specific…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Student Attitudes, Education Work Relationship
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Nelson, Anders – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2008
This article reports on a study of gender differences in course experiences and achievement of students taking the introductory educational sciences course at Halmstad University in Sweden. Male and female students' completion rates and grades were analysed in relation to the students' grade point averages (GPAs) from upper secondary school and…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Sciences
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Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2013
EUROCALL 2013's theme was "20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future." The conference seeked to establish an overview of EUROCALL's twentieth anniversary. As a professional organization, EUROCALL has been aiming, along its 20 years of existence, to promote innovative research, development and practice in the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Johansson, Kristina; Kopciwicz, Lucyna; Dahlgren, Lars Owe – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2008
This comparative small-scale (Swedish and Polish sample) longitudinal qualitative study investigates political science students' conceptions of their studies, their future profession and their workplace learning. The students (10 in Sweden and 11 in Poland) were interviewed twice, first when they were at the end of their studies and a second time…
Descriptors: Political Science, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education
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Edstrom, Ann-Mari – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2008
This article concerns artistic development within the context of a Master of Fine Arts program in visual arts in Sweden, and presents an empirical study based on repeated interviews with a group of art students. The aim is to contribute to our present understanding of artistic development by focusing on changes in the relation between the student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Arts, Studio Art, Masters Programs
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Bergmark, Ulrika; Alerby, Eva – Ethics and Education, 2008
In meetings between people in school our values are shown through, for example, our actions, our speech and body language. These meetings can be regarded as ethical situations, which can arouse strong emotional reactions that ordinary, everyday situations usually do not do. The aim of this paper is to illuminate, interpret and discuss students'…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Ethics, Ethical Instruction, School Culture
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