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Direct linkJoel Barnes – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
This article examines the place of evolutionary science in protestant and Catholic residential colleges associated with Australian public universities across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although faith-based universities are a relatively recent phenomenon in Australia, a quasi-federal model of secular teaching and accrediting…
Descriptors: Evolution, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Religious Colleges
Parfa Koskinen, Katarina – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2020
Purpose: The study is an elaboration on how a graduate student discursively navigates a research identity through lived experiences as an Indigenous Sámi and writings on Indigenous, as well as other suitable research paradigms informing research on digital technologies in education. The guiding question is how a strategy of inquiry to be used in a…
Descriptors: Language Research, Self Concept, Indigenous Populations, Languages
Kaye, Helen; Barrett, Jane P.; Knightley, Wendy M. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2013
Psychology students at the Open University (OU) can choose whether to complete their project work at residential school or by participating in an online equivalent. This study identifies different factors governing module choice and student experience: When choosing residential school, social aspects are important, whereas for online, students are…
Descriptors: Psychology, Preferences, Student Attitudes, Student Projects
Soufleris, Dawn Meza – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Research regarding homeschooled students and their transition to college has been focused on two distinct areas: their academic performance and success integrating into a university community. The purpose of this study was to analyze the transition experiences of students who were homeschooled prior to attendance at a residential university campus…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Educational Sociology, Home Schooling, Student Experience
Download full textHughes, Clarissa – Australian Universities' Review, 2012
This paper reports the results of a small qualitative pilot study on the role of alcohol in college life, undertaken at three residential colleges at an Australian university. Focus groups (involving 43 students aged between 17 and 23 years) investigated participants' views of the social functions of alcohol in the residential college environment.…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Foreign Countries, College Environment, Focus Groups
Robinson, Kathleen – Open Learning, 2009
This study describes the theoretical rationale underpinning the design and implementation of a career-related activity as an optional element of a virtual residential school. The activity comprised an interview with a practising chartered psychologist recorded as an MP3 audio file, which was subsequently supported by an asynchronous discussion…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Student Reaction, Residential Schools, Ethnography
Smith, Andrew – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
In a specialist further education college, it was recognised that students aged 16/17 transferring to vocational study after their compulsory schooling were refusing to take up their entitlement to additional learning support. This created a shortfall in the college's predicted units of funding; also, course managers reported that several of these…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Vocational Education, College Transfer Students, Interviews
