Leftist ethnography, educative research and post-compulsory education and training

Ethnography, education and on-line research

An overview of ethnography in healthcare and medical education research

Research in healthcare settings and medical education has relied heavily on quantitative methods. However, there are research questions within these academic domains that may be more adequately addressed by qualitative inquiry. While there are many qualitative approaches, ethnography is one method that allows the researcher to take advantage of relative immersion in order to obtain thick descri...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Changes in Post-compulsory Education and Training in England: Emotional and Psychic Responses to Encounters with Learning Support

In the context of official interest in ‘personalised learning’ and of growing academic interest in relationships between emotion and learning, this paper investigates the experience of individual learners who have been allocated learning support in organisations within the post-compulsory education sector in England. This support is additional to that provided by the teacher or trainer, in form...

The e-Revolution and Post-Compulsory Education: Using e-business models to deliver quality education

The best practices of e-business are revolutionising not just technology itself but the whole process through which services are provided; and from which important lessons can be learnt by post-compulsory educational institutions. This book aims to move debates about ICT and higher educa tion beyond a simple focus on e-learning by considering the provision of post-compulsory education as a whol...