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Marina Orsini-Jones – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This article discusses Vietnam Virtual EXchange for English Language Teaching (ViVEXELT), a project funded by the British Council -- Vietnam (Digital Learning Innovation Fund Pilot -- Response to COVID-19). It makes a substantial contribution to the theorization of Virtual Exchange as a fertile and inclusive knowledge-sharing Third Space. ViVEXELT…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries
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Lehner-Mear, Rachel – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2020
This paper discusses ethical issues surrounding Netnography, an innovative methodology, relatively unusual in Education research. It explores the ethical approach developed for a study of UK mother perspectives on primary school homework found on open-access parenting websites, reviewing issues considered at the project's outset and examining…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Social Science Research
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Foster, Sophie Vivien; Degeneffe, Charles Edmund – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2019
Background and Objective: This article compares the policy, care systems, and legislation surrounding acquired brain injury (ABI) in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). Consistent with their shared histories, many similarities in terms of culture, language, and politics, and their history of cooperative relations in military and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adventitious Impairments, Head Injuries, Neurological Impairments
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Reeves, Andrew – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: This study aims to explore co-learning classes, a novel approach to leveraging universities' capacity to contribute to the local sustainable development agenda whilst enhancing students' learning. These participatory classes were piloted within a UK university masters' module focussed on action for sustainability. The classes sought to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Sustainable Development
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Hanney, Roy; Skirkeviciutey, Gerda – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
An evaluation of the use of blogging for developing educational affordances that enhance characteristics of social interaction and reflective dialogue within learning communities. The findings emerge from a study investigating the implementation of course blogs on a media practice programme at a UK university. Literature on the use of course blogs…
Descriptors: Affordances, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Communities of Practice
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Guldberg, Karen; Achtypi, Alexia; D'Alonzo, Luigi; Laskaridou, Katerina; Milton, Damian; Molteni, Paola; Wood, Rebecca – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2021
Although theories around Communities of Practice have gained significant ground in recent years and have become an important focus for organizational development, there is a gap in studies that investigate what members gain from participation in these communities. This paper explains how the value creation framework was implemented in a…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Communities of Practice, Social Development
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Voskou, Angeliki – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2021
This study was conducted at an important chronological turning point with regard to the structure of the Greek community and Greek supplementary schools in the UK. This paper, following a mixed-methods methodology, aims to examine whether pedagogic practices and norms of the past that took place in Greek supplementary schools continue to exist…
Descriptors: Educational History, Teaching Methods, Immigrants, Ethnicity
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Dutta, Sutapa – History of Education, 2022
A geophysical perception of the ecumene had always existed in the consciousness of Indians even in precolonial days. But with the advent of the British, and with the establishment of territorial mapping and institutionalised education, there was a growing awareness of differences and similarities related to ethnicity, race and space. Colonial…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Textbooks, Indians, Race
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Macdonald, Sheila; Watson, Jodi – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
This article explores a cross-disciplinary collaboration within English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision for adults born outside the United Kingdom (UK). By foregrounding collaborative practice between a language practitioner and an artist, we offer a practical experience of working beyond and besides language which offers both an…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Universities UK, 2022
This report puts forward practical actions to address economic and social disparities across the United Kingdom (UK). It sets out the evidence of the impact universities are making across three main themes, outlines the potential to go further, and makes recommendations for how the government can work with universities to maximise their…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Educational Opportunities, Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities
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Franklin, Jo – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2019
This article is an autoethnographic account of my journey from theatre stage manager to academic stage manager. Performing arts education and training in Higher Education is a diverse field, ranging from small private institutions to large research lead universities. Professional practitioners (performers, stage managers, technicians, designers,…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Ethnography, Art Education, Higher Education
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Fletcher-Watson, Sue; Adams, Jon; Brook, Kabie; Charman, Tony; Crane, Laura; Cusack, James; Leekam, Susan; Milton, Damian; Parr, Jeremy R.; Pellicano, Elizabeth – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Participatory research methods connect researchers with relevant communities to achieve shared goals. These methods can deliver results that are relevant to people's lives and thus likely to have a positive impact. In the context of a large and growing body of autism research, with continued poor implementation, and some evidence of community…
Descriptors: Autism, Communities of Practice, Participatory Research, Empathy
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Gaulter, Julia; Mountford-Zimdars, Anna – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
We present the experience of 10 British low-socio-economic status students who were supported by a charitable scheme to be internationally mobile and who are currently studying at a range of highly selective universities and liberal arts colleges in the North-Eastern United States. Based on semi-structured interviews and the discussion of…
Descriptors: College Students, Low Income Students, Study Abroad, Cultural Capital
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Lloyd, Catherine; Jones, Samantha – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2018
This article comes out of our shared experiences of undertaking post graduate research whilst working in the further education (FE) sector. In 2014, we established a research network within our college, with the initial aim of providing opportunities for those undertaking research to meet and discuss their work. We provide insight into our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational Research, Communities of Practice
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Watermeyer, Richard – European Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Public engagement (PE) is habitually recognized and advocated across the higher education (HE) community--especially by regulator and funder constituencies--as an intrinsically good thing. In the UK, a number of initiatives focused on embedding a culture of PE within universities have sought to further this claim, yet have done so without…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Involvement, Interviews, College Faculty
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