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Report on ACSW Adelaide, South Australia

I attended three streams of the Australasian Computer Science Week (acsw) conference, which was held between the 4th and 7th of February. The first, Australasian Computing Education Conference (ace, Section 2) discussed teaching ‘computing’ in a tertiary environment. The second stream, the Workshop on Wearable, Invisible, Context-aware, Ambient, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (wicapuc, Sect...

Optimal Timing of Mental Practice on Learning the Volleyball Service Skill

The goal of this study is searching effective time (before, during and after physical practice) for mental practice in learning the Volleyball Service Skill. Forty-five beginner students, aged 12–14 years, with no history of Volleyball Service Skill participated in the study (45 Male ones). Most of them were Secondary school students. All were unable to serve Volleyball correctly. The subject...

EFL Pre-service Teachers’ Concerns: A Reflective Practice

Central to the spirit of reflective teaching is the ability to focus critically on one’s own beliefs, cognitions, and concerns. Numerous proposals have been developed for implementing reflective practices in pre-service teacher education contexts with the aim of producing highly competent reflective teachers. However, it is imperative to identify the candidates’ beliefs and knowledge base befor...

Theory from practice for practice: is this a reality?

Dickoff & James assert that theory comes from practice for practice. This paper will explore the reality of this statement in nursing today. The nature of nursing knowledge from an historical perspective facilitates an understanding of where nursing theory development is today. The purpose of theory is debated and the motivation for its development considered. Practice theory, theory which is d...

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