Lifelong education and transnational migration     

Sue Webb  John Holford  Peter Jarvis  Marcella Milana  Richard Waller 《International Journal of Lifelong Education》2013,32(4):435-439

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether and through what mechanisms vulnerable adults are empowered through a second-chance education programme. At the same time, the paper aims at unveiling the obstacles hindering learners’ empowerment process and making suggestions for the improvement of the educational programme fostering further empowerment of the learners. To achieve the objectives set by the research, a hybrid methodological design was applied combining hermeneutic phenomenology and critical discourse analysis. Data collection was performed using three tools: semi-structured interviews, reflective journals and document analysis. The results led to the emergence of a multilevel empowerment scheme of vulnerable adults in the programme. The empowerment mechanisms that emerged were as follows: (a) empowerment through participation as a self-value, (b) empowerment through the reconstruction of past experiences, (c) empowerment through the strengthening of their social capital and (d) empowerment through literacy skills. At the same time, the study shed light on a number of factors that inhibit the process of learners’ empowerment, which unveil structural and operational weaknesses of the programme as well as of the policies pursued by the State.  相似文献   

Mega Bits     

Norman L. Webb 《TechTrends》2003,47(1):67-67

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Within Course Effects of a Training Package for Teachers of the Severely Mentally Handicapped     

Alan Jones  Dr  Colin Robson 《British Journal of Special Education》1983,10(2):17-20

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The Missing Stratum: Technical School Education in England, 1900-1990s,by Michael Sanderson     

Divall  Colin 《Minerva》1998,36(1):91-98

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Thirty trends shaping the future of academic libraries     

David ATTIS  Colin KOPROSKE 《Learned Publishing》2013,26(1):18-23

This collection of observations, insights, and strategies summarizes the findings from the Education Advisory Board's 2011 research initiative, ‘Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services‘, which was conducted on behalf of its membership of over 200 provosts and vice‐presidents for academic affairs at institutions across North America. The full report is freely accessible at http://www.educationadvisoryboard.com/pdf/23634‐EAB‐Redefining‐the‐Academic‐Library.pdf  相似文献   

A Response to Brian Street     

Colin MacCabe 《English in Education》1998,32(1):26-28

This short piece is written in response to an article by Brian Street on the implications of New Literacy Studies in the last issue of English in Education.  相似文献   

Conversations     

Colin Mills 《Education 3-13》2013,41(2)

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Characterizing Mathematics Classroom Practice: Impact of Observation and Coding Choices     

Marsha Ing  Noreen M. Webb 《Educational Measurement》2012,31(1):14-26

Large‐scale observational measures of classroom practice increasingly focus on opportunities for student participation as an indicator of instructional quality. Each observational measure necessitates making design and coding choices on how to best measure student participation. This study investigated variations of coding approaches that may be feasible in large‐scale studies, and the ramifications of these variations for drawing inferences about instructional quality. Using data from classroom videos, we found that decisions about whether to keep track of individual students in the coding, observe multiple contexts in the classroom (e.g., whole‐class and small‐group discussions), and capture nuances of student participation changed the resulting characterizations of classroom practice. Most importantly, simplifying the coding approach did not fully capture and even misrepresented the level and nature of student participation in many classrooms.  相似文献   

Project managing e-learning – By Maggie McVay Lynch & John Roecker     

Nick Webb   《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2008,39(3):565-565

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Correlation between maximum in-shoe plantar pressures and clubhead speed in amateur golfers     

Todd Colin Pataky 《Journal of sports sciences》2015,33(2):192-197

Disagreements exist in the literature regarding the manner in which weight should be dynamically shared during the golf swing, both within-feet and between the back- and target-foot, to generate maximal clubhead speed. The purpose of this study was to determine whether preferential foot-loading locations underlie weight sharing by examining the correlation between clubhead speed and maximum plantar pressure (PP) distributions. Thirty-two amateur golfers with handicap indexes ranging from 2.7 to 25 performed 10 driver swings on artificial turf following a warm-up. PP distributions were recorded at 100 Hz, and clubhead speed was recorded using a ball-tracking Doppler radar system. Maximum PPs were extracted from a 2-s window approximately centred on ball contact and were regressed against clubhead speed. Significance was assessed over the entire foot surface using statistical parametric mapping (SPM), a spatially continuous technique. SPM revealed, at relatively high anatomical resolution, significant positive correlations between clubhead speed and PPs in the lateral target-foot (P < 0.05). This suggests that not only weight transfer but also weight-transfer location may be an important determinant of clubhead speed in amateur golfers.  相似文献