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The Campaign: a case study in identity construction through performance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article undertakes a detailed case study of The Campaign, a teaching and learning innovation in media and communications that uses an online educational role-play.
Riddle, Matthew
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State education as high-yield investment: human capital theory in European policy discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Human Capital Theory has been an increasingly important phenomenon in economic thought over the last 50 years. The central role it affords to education has become even more marked in recent years as the concept of the ‘knowledge economy’ has become a ...
A. Giddens   +57 more
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Older adult education in a Maltese University of the Third Age : a critical perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The education of older adults has been considered the fastest growing branch of adult education in post-industrial countries and one of the most crucial challenges facing current adult European education. It has generated a significant number of research
Formosa, Marvin
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Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
According to Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction, children from middle class families are advantaged in gaining educational credentials due to their possession of cultural capital.
Sullivan, Alice
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Hirst on educational theory

open access: yesJournal of Philosophy of Education, 2023
Abstract Paul Hirst’s writings about the nature of educational theory continue to be important to the field of education. In this paper I unpack and analyse in some detail his conception of educational theory. I centre my discussion on three issues.
openaire   +2 more sources

Cognitive load theory, educational research, and instructional design: some food for thought [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Cognitive load is a theoretical notion with an increasingly central role in the educational research literature. The basic idea of cognitive load theory is that cognitive capacity in working memory is limited, so that if a learning task requires too much
Jong, T. de
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Deliberative Democracy in Higher Education: The Role of Critical Spaces Across Universities

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2022
The capacity of democracies to serve as venues for the free expression of ideas and opinions has become threatened by discourse and debate in the global media that is ill-informed and unjustified while human suffering and inequities continue to plague ...
Roger Mourad
doaj   +2 more sources

Reflect, Analyze, Act, Repeat: Creating Critical Consciousness through Critical Service-Learning at a Professional Development School

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2018
Universities engage students in traditional service-learning projects that often yield “good feelings”, even a savior mentality, but typically leave the root causes of social justice issues unexamined and untouched. In contrast to traditional
P. Gayle Andrews, Susan Y. Leonard
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Educational leadership and management : theory, policy, and practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
There is great interest in educational leadership in the early part of the 21st century because of the widespread belief that the quality of leadership makes a significant difference to school and student outcomes.
Bush, Tony
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Editorial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
An introduction to the journal is presented in which the author discusses several articles including those on today's teaching and learning of language and music, Sylvia Ashton-Warner's contribution to educational theory and classroom pedagogy and ...
De Luca, Rosemary
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