A New Interpretive Pedagogy

Developing a New Pedagogy for Geometry

Major improvements in the teaching and learning of geometry will only come, argues a recent report from the Royal Society and Joint Mathematical Council, through the development of a completely new pedagogy for geometry. This report examines existing models of pedagogy for geometry and considers what research might have to contribute to the development of new approaches. New pedagogic approache...

Towards New Interfaces for Pedagogy

Developing technology to help people teach and learn is an important topic in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). In this thesis we present three studies on this topic. In the first study, we demonstrate new games for learning mathematics and discuss the evidence for key design decisions from user studies. In the second study, we develop a real-time video compositing system for distance education...

Moving Against the Grain: Exploring Genre-Based Pedagogy in a New Context

Considerable literature explores the contribution of genre teaching in English academic writing. The role of this approach in developing academic writing of Iranian EFL students, however, has been underresearched. This study investigated the implications of using this approach with a class of undergraduate students in Iran. The current study reports on the findings of a project which employed a...

Marketing’s Interpretive Communities: a New Form of Sociocultural Segmentation?

Interpretation of brands and marketing communications has become increasingly problematic in the contemporary commercial environment, largely due to an overabundance of available cultural meanings and interpretive perspectives, and the instability of social categories. This problem has implications for segmentation and the positioning of brands, and for the strategic consistency of marketing me...

A Collaborative Environment for New Learning Ecology and E-Pedagogy