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EAP: Imagining a new tertiary community

Malthus, C Widin, J

Through a case study of an English for Academic Purposes and academic readiness program in Lao PDR, this article explores how the particular needs of the students can be taken into account in the d...

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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Practices Among Basic School Teachers in the Central Region of Ghana

Abakah, E Widin, J Ameyaw, EK

This paper reports on an exploratory study regarding the current continuing professional development (CPD) situation of basic schoolteachers in Ghana. The study investigates the teachers’ CPD needs...

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An indigenous community learning centre to promote a culture of learning

Widin, J Norman, HR Ndaba, A Yasukawa, K

This paper describes a project which focuses on the development of a schooled culture of learning in an inner city Indigenous community. The project is a collaboration between an urban Indigenous...

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Re-organizing public sector work: Conditions for innovating-in-practice

Johnsson, MC Price, OM Manidis, M

Public sector organizations continue to re-organize in response to reform imperatives but are they more innovative when they transform to market or customer orientations? This paper examines what w...

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English as a medium of instruction in Bangladesh's higher education: Empowering or disadvantaging students?

Sultana, S

This paper reports on a mixed-method study that explored the effect of English as a medium of instruction. It specifically focuses on the academic discourse and socialisation experiences of 1st yea...

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Touch design and narrative interpretation: A social semiotic approach to picture book apps

Zhao, S Unsworth, L

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges, potential and theoretical possibilities of apps and considers the processes of change for education and home learning environments.

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Engineers' professional learning: a practice-theory perspective

Reich, A Rooney, D Gardner, A Willey, K Boud, D Fitzgerald, T

© 2014 SEFI. With the increasing challenges facing professional engineers working in more complex, global and interdisciplinary contexts, different approaches to understanding how engineers practic...

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Examining Museum Visits as Literacy Events: the role of mediators

Yasukawa, K Widin, J Smith, V Aubusson, PJ Rivera, K Van Tiel, M Whitty, HE

Museum exhibitions are literacy rich environments. Visitors may engage with a range of texts including texts that constitute the exhibition objects themselves, those that convey information about t...

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Transdisciplinary learning: Transformative collaborations between students, industry, academia and communities.

Buck, A Clifton-Cunningham, A Golja, T Kutay, C Melvold, J Regmi, A Vincent, N Walsh, SP Yap, E-H Co-Creating Collective

Background and objectives of the case An analogy: Imagine you are invited to a dinner party, but instead of a stuffy sit-down affair, your host asks you to bring your favourite ingredient, and toge...

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The potential and paradox of informal learning

Boud, D Rooney, D

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