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Fitzgibbons, Megan; Kloda, Lorie; Miller-Nesbitt, Andrea – College & Research Libraries, 2017
Journal clubs are meetings where participants engage in discussion or appraisal of professional literature and research. This study investigates the perceived value of librarians' participation in journal clubs. Using a hermeneutic dialectic process, we built a construction of the value of journal club participation based on interviews with…
Descriptors: Librarians, Communities of Practice, Professional Development, Informal Education
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Duckworth, Vicky; Lord, Janet; Dunne, Linda; Atkins, Liz; Watmore, Sue – Gender and Education, 2016
The experiences of five female lecturers working in higher education in the UK are explored as they engage in the search for a feminised critical space as a refuge from the masculinised culture of performativity in which they feel constrained and devalued. Email exchanges were used as a form of narrative enquiry that provided opportunity and space…
Descriptors: Feminism, Higher Education, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
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Gurjee, Ridwanah – Journal of Peer Learning, 2020
This research explores one-to-one, formal mentoring relationships between students in higher education and their partnered mentees from community and secondary school environments. The purpose is to enhance understanding of mentoring praxis, bringing insight into structures and support of relationships. This paper addresses gaps in the literature…
Descriptors: Mentors, College Students, Peer Teaching, Peer Relationship
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Hutton, C.; Robson, J. – New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 2019
Developing an online learning community can help to improve student success. This presents a challenge as the student cohort is often time-limited and shifting in composition before a module starts. The continued evaluation and development of an online preparatory website for the new, year one module S112 -- "Science: concepts and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Distance Education, Discussion Groups, Online Courses
Stevens, Connor; Egglestone, Corin; Stevenson, Alex; Patel, Ash – Learning and Work Institute, 2019
This report sets out the results of work undertaken by Learning and Work Institute (L&W) in 2017/18 to develop and test the use of social metrics in Adult Community Learning provision to capture a range of wider outcomes of learning. The report highlights lessons learned, examples of effective practice and suggests ways in which the use of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Outcome Measures, Accreditation (Institutions)
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Sinfield, Dean; Allen, Justine; Collins, Loel – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2020
This paper examines the coaching behaviours of different paddlesport coaches (n = 17). A sample of coaches specialising in non-competitive paddlesport from professional, club and educational contexts are examined utilising a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews. The three groups are shown to share common aspect such the importance of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Coaching (Performance), Decision Making, Interpersonal Competence
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Oliver, Martin; Avramides, Katerina; Clark, Wilma; Hunter, Jade; Luckin, Rose; Hansen, Cecilie; Wasson, Barbara – Teacher Development, 2018
Sharing teachers' professional knowledge remains challenging. Teachers' development often remains ad hoc or local, and attempts to scale this up have proved problematic. To address this, research in areas such as 'learning design' has explored the use of formal representations of practice. This proposes that educational practice can be improved by…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Inquiry
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Huertas Barros, Elsa; Vine, Juliet – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
In designing their courses and modules, translator educators today need to consider a variety of changing institutional, professional and pedagogical requirements. This paper proposes ways in which translator trainers can respond to two sets of these new requirements. The first are the requirements for a widening conceptualisation of translation…
Descriptors: Assessment Literacy, Translation, Professional Education, Units of Study
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de la Torre, Eva M.; Rossi, Federica; Sagarra, Marti – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
It has been suggested that higher education institutions (HEIs) may develop different activity profiles (including research, teaching and socio-economic engagement) in their attempt to maximise the fit between institutional resources and strategic opportunities; the latter include strategies of engagement with different groups of external…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Educational Resources, Stakeholders
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Whiteway, Sarah – Educational & Child Psychology, 2019
Aim: This study was an exploration into the experiences and perspectives of teenage fathers regarding their education. It aimed to unpick the role belonging played in their time in school. Method: Six men who had fathered a child before they were twenty years old participated in a narrative interview, during which they were encouraged to speak…
Descriptors: Fathers, Early Parenthood, Sense of Community, Parent Attitudes
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Batsleer, Janet – Education Sciences, 2021
This essay offers a broken narrative concerning the early history of anti-oppressive practice as an approach in the U.K. to youth and community work and the struggles over this in the context of UK higher education between the 1960's and the early 2000's. Educating informal educators as youth and community workers in the UK has been a site of…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Educational Practices, Experiential Learning, Informal Education
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Brodie, Jacqueline; Osowska, Renata – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
Universities globally are aspiring to grow through investing in the delivery of online learning programmes. However, the attrition rate for online learning is high. It has been noted that those students with a sense of belonging to their course experience increased enjoyment and reduced anxiety and are therefore less likely to withdraw. Yet too…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Entrepreneurship
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Outar, Cara; Rose, John – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2017
Background: The relationship between work demands and burnout is complex and it is likely that a number of different variables mediate this relationship. The study had 2 aims: first, to investigate whether there is a relationship between work demands and staff burnout, and, second, to explore whether role identity or self-determination mediates…
Descriptors: Burnout, Caregivers, Staff Role, Professional Identity
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Jerome, Lee – Journal of Social Science Education, 2020
Purpose: This article explores the policy context in the UK around securing impact from academic research, particularly from the perspective of a social science education researcher. Approach: The article locates impact studies within debates about broader accountability frameworks. Insights from this literature are applied to a case study about…
Descriptors: Prevention, Terrorism, Accountability, Educational Policy
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Zhu, Meina; Bonk, Curtis J. – Journal of Learning for Development, 2020
This mixed-methods study examines the design and delivery of MOOCs to facilitate student self-monitoring for self-directed learning (SDL). The data collection methods included an online survey (n = 198), semi-structured interviews of MOOC instructors (n = 22), and document analysis of MOOCs (n = 22). This study found that MOOC instructors viewed…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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