In this article, we explore home-school relations as the establishment of a complex relationship between institutions and individuals in specific contexts. Using Bakhtin's ideas of answerability, which depict a particular kind of responsibility, and…
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Task-based synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) may represent an optimal psycholinguistic environment for form-meaning connections, but learners do not receive feedback from a trusted authority. Intelligent computer-assisted language…
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Many psychological studies of categorization and reasoning use undergraduates to make claims about human conceptualization. Generalizability of findings to other populations is often assumed but rarely tested. Even when comparative studies are…
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This paper examines BSc Physiotherapy students' experiences of developing their neurological observational and analytical skills using a blend of traditional classroom acitivities and computer-based materials at Univeristy of Birmingham. New…
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This paper reports on a project that has redesigned a module and incorporated online components in the form of a VLE and reusable learning objects. The goal was to improve HE students academic competence and critical enquiry skills. The paper…
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In an effort to generate a bottom-up approach for the program-wide implementation of electronic portfolios, this article first reports on the ways in which teacher candidates perceived the benefits and setbacks of this experience, after an initial…
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This paper discusses some of the findings from a recent longitudinal study that examined how 35 beginning teachers used information and communications technologies (ICT) in the first three years of their teaching. The research, set in Western…
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This paper describes how interpretations of inquiry have changed during the 20th Century. These multiple meanings have resulted in (a) confusion among K12 teachers of science and (b) various interpretations by science teacher educators. Suggestions…
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Stigmergy is a class of mechanisms that mediate animal-animal interactions. Its introduction in 1959 by Pierre-Paul Grassé made it possible to explain what had been until then considered paradoxical observations: In an insect society individuals…
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I describe in this paper the basic elements of the n-universes, a methodological tool originally introduced in Franceschi (2001) in the context of the study of Goodman's paradox. As the n-universes can be used in wide-ranging applications, such as…
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This special issue addresses the subject of individual differences in language learning, a topic whose complexity has meant little conclusive knowledge and thus need for continuing investigation. This paper offers a brief but broad overview of the…
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AIMS OF THE STUDY: Commercially important indigenous medicinal plants of southern Africa are reviewed in the context of fundamental knowledge about their ethnobotany, phylogeny, genetics, taxonomy, biochemistry, chemical variation, reproductive…
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The purpose of this paper is to advocate the use of qualitative power analyses. We contend that all qualitative research studies should involve some form of qualitative power analysis; such an analysis would help qualitative researchers to select…
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This article is based on longitudinal image-based research conducted with working-class immigrant boys and girls in a US public school context. Picture taking is one part of a larger ethnographic exploration of how the children perceive and navigate…
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We test the hypothesis that the tendency to form CO32- can be lowered on the elimination of Mn+ from alk. anion exchange membrane-based solid alk. fuel cells; ppts. of metal carbonates cannot then form. on SciFinder(R)
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of an integrated, laptop-based approach on pre-service teachers' computer attitudes, ability and use. Pre-post program analysis revealed significant differences in behavioural attitudes and…
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Keas are extremely inquisitive birds that explore and manipulate objects with their beak and feet when foraging or at play. We investigated how captive keas face a problem that they have never encountered before: food objects suspended from a long…
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Explores the changes in one student teacher's thinking about the nature of scientific investigations during her participation in an elementary science methods course assignment. Concludes with a discussion on the movement in this student's view of…
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The purpose of this case study was to explore how children designed computer games as artifacts that reflected their understanding of nutrition. In order to accomplish this goal, we asked students to design educational games that would teach first…
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In this paper, we present a case study of a beginning chemistry teacher who enrolled in a project aimed to contribute to the development of teachers' knowledge of models and modelling in science. The project consisted of a series of institutional…
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