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Feather, Denis – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2012
This paper considers conceptions of the term "scholarship" amongst lecturers delivering business higher education programmes (BHEPs) in further education colleges (FECs). A condensed overview of leading authors' work on the subject of scholarship is first considered; then, at the end of the paper, an alternative definition is offered in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Education, Scholarship, Business Education
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Jaime, Mark; Bahrick, Lorraine; Lickliter, Robert – Infancy, 2010
We explored the amount and timing of temporal synchrony necessary to facilitate prenatal perceptual learning using an animal model, the bobwhite quail. Quail embryos were exposed to various audiovisual combinations of a bobwhite maternal call paired with patterned light during the late stages of prenatal development and were tested postnatally for…
Descriptors: Prenatal Influences, Child Development, Perceptual Development, Animals
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Reay, Diane; Crozier, Gill; Clayton, John – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
Drawing on case studies of 27 working-class students across four UK higher education institutions, this article attempts to develop a multilayered, sociological understanding of student identities that draws together social and academic aspects. Working with a concept of student identity that combines the more specific notion of learner identity…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Peer Groups, Working Class, Case Studies
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Fletcher, Ben; Pine, Karen J. – Educational Psychology, 2009
When pre-school children count an array of objects containing one that is broken in half, most count the halves as two separate objects. Two studies explore this predisposition to count discrete physical objects (DPOs) and investigate its robustness in the face of various manipulations. In Experiment 1, 32 children aged three-four years counted…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Prior Learning, Preschool Children, Teaching Methods
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Taylor, Claire – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2012
This article explores the higher education learning experience of Kat, a mature female student. As part of a longitudinal case study spanning two years, data were collected through interviews and journal entries. The data were used to construct an account of Kat's higher education experience, focusing particularly upon her self-theory in relation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students, Adult Students
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Fulford, Amanda J. – Ethics and Education, 2009
This paper explores three current notions of literacy, which underpin the theorisation and practice of teaching and learning for both children and adults in England. In so doing, it raises certain problems inherent in these approaches to literacy and literacy education and shows how Stanley Cavell's notions of reading, and especially his reading…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Familiarity, Foreign Countries, Literacy
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Deed, Craig; Edwards, Anthony – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2011
Realizing the potential for web-based communication provides a challenge for educators. The purpose here is to report students' behavioural and cognitive strategies for active learning when using an unrestricted blog in an academic context. This provides insight into how students are making sense of the incorporation of Web 2.0 technology into…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Active Learning, Virtual Classrooms
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Mintz, Joseph – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2010
There has been a growing emphasis in recent years on inter-agency working in respect of the care and development of children. This is of particular relevance when considering the needs of children with special educational needs (SEN). Teachers and healthcare professionals are two groups who need to have a clear understanding of the meaning and…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Student Teachers, Educational Needs, Student Attitudes
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Mather, Emily; Plunkett, Kim – Infancy, 2009
During the second year of life, infants develop a preference to attach novel labels to novel objects. This behavior is commonly known as "mutual exclusivity" (Markman, 1989). In an intermodal preferential looking experiment with 19.5- and 22.5-month-olds, stimulus repetition was critical for observing mutual exclusivity. On the first…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Toddlers, Visual Discrimination, Memory
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Smith-Spark, James H.; Moore, Viv – Dyslexia, 2009
Two under-explored areas of developmental dyslexia research, face naming and age of acquisition (AoA), were investigated. Eighteen dyslexic and 18 non-dyslexic university students named the faces of 50 well-known celebrities, matched for facial distinctiveness and familiarity. Twenty-five of the famous people were learned early in life, while the…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Familiarity, College Students, Recognition (Psychology)
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Clayton, John; Crozier, Gill; Reay, Diane – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2009
With reference to an ESRC/TLRP project conducted across two academic years with working-class students in higher education (HE), this paper explores the relationship between geographies of home and those of university at two UK HE institutions. It addresses how social relations inflected by class influence the experience of students as they adapt…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Working Class, Familiarity, Geographic Location
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Scott, Ryan B.; Dienes, Zoltan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
This article examines the role of subjective familiarity in the implicit and explicit learning of artificial grammars. Experiment 1 found that objective measures of similarity (including fragment frequency and repetition structure) predicted ratings of familiarity, that familiarity ratings predicted grammaticality judgments, and that the extremity…
Descriptors: Grammar, Familiarity, Second Language Learning, Learning Processes
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Stone, Andrew; Dearing, Mike – Education & Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of City & Guilds' development of simulation-based assessments for its ICT user qualification. These simulations are authentic scenario-based replicas of word processing and spreadsheet software, which present a series of tasks that the test-taker completes as if they were using…
Descriptors: Creativity, Familiarity, Computer Software, Measures (Individuals)
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Teo, Timothy; Hargreaves, David J.; Lee, June – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2008
The authors investigate whether there were significant differences in preferences for, familiarity with, and identification of Chinese, Malay, and Indian music between adolescent students from Singapore (n = 78) and the United Kingdom (n = 53). Also explored are the relationships among these three variables. Students were asked to rate their…
Descriptors: Music, Females, Familiarity, Identification
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Tomkins, Stephen; Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale – Journal of Biological Education, 2007
Primary school pupils in the UK today may be less familiar with natural objects, less exposed to formal natural history teaching and have less time given to school-based observation and discussion of natural objects. This study of children's responses to a "Nature Table" of displayed natural objects was designed to assess pupils'…
Descriptors: Photography, Familiarity, Students, Observation
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