In the literature examining neighbourhood effects on educational outcomes, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually internalise educational norms held by residents, is often assumed. We attempt to fill this gap by looking at how the internalis...

INTRODUCTION Female sex workers (FSWs) frequently experience violence in their work environments, violating their basic rights and increasing their vulnerability to HIV infection. Structural interventions addressing such violence are critical components of comprehensive HIV prevention programmes. We describe structural interventions developed to address violence against FSWs in the form of poli...

Children at L2 primary levels acquire knowledge and language skills associated with different abilities through educational games. The game introduces learning activities by using playful elements as a source of motivation. The success of the game depends on an optimum relationship between challenge, fantasy, curiosity and control. This is also applied to educational computer games. Moreover, i...

This research-in-progress paper uses the grounded theory approach to understand user engagement in educational computer gaming. Twenty-one subjects who have experienced engagement with educational computer games were interviewed about their engaging experience with educational computer games. The preliminary results are presented in this paper, where they are conceptualized into three main cate...

The current generation of young learners demands innovative educational approaches that meet their characteristics and needs. Recent initiatives go beyond the use of games and propose that students can construct games themselves, developing design and programming abilities, and learning curricular contents in more engaging ways. However, integrating digital games to formal educational settings ...

Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are an expression of the post-modern school. In this paper we discover how the functional requirements of the VLEs affect and are being affected by the educational, ethnographic and social spaces. It is supported that educational effectiveness of VLE is not proportional only to the quality of learning material, but also to the general educational context of ...

One of the issues facing educational research workers today is the determination of the similarities and differences between countries and cultures in the factors that influence educational outcomes. The author of this article proposes a new approach to this problem. Usually when countries are compared, the complete student samples are taken into consideration. At the same time, there are diffe...

Previous research has found parental divorce to have negative effects on children’s educational attainment; in addition, it has been noted that the effects of divorce are not the same in all western societies. However, research on Catholic and southern European countries is missing. The aim of this paper is to add to the research on the relation between parental divorce and the educational atta...