Towards a Postcolonial Pedagogy

Prologue TOWARDS A GENEALOGY OF POSTCOLONIAL SECULARISM

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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...

Towards a Constructivist Pedagogy in the Ubicomp Classroom

One promise of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) is that everyday environments will be augmented with digital technologies to enhance their effectiveness. As hardware matures and becomes more affordable, the possibility of a practical ubicomp classroom becomes increasingly attractive; however, the availability of high-quality pedagogically-sound software for this platform is likely to lag behind. ...

Guidance, Activities and Participation: towards a Workplace Pedagogy

Gaelic Scotland – A Postcolonial Site

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw what is known today as the Highland Clearances, which was in effect the forced migration of a large proportion of the population of the Scottish Highlands due to intensified sheep farming in the name of a more effective economic land use (Devine, 1999, pp.176-78). For the Gaelic speech community this meant ‘the removal of its heartland’ (Ma...