In their article "Intermediality, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy," Kris Rutten and Ronald Soetaert discuss how the notion of intermediality challenges the institutions that traditionally "mediate" culture and they discuss implications for pedagogy. First, they focus on how the museum as an institution is questioned and problematized by describing it as a "medium" that is increasingly influenced by cult...

This paper offers a historical background of how critical pedagogy hasemerged, and how it has been adopted to the field of language education. Theauthor then provides support for Crooks’ (2010) argument that more practicalexamples of critical pedagogical EFL literature need to be reported. The paperalso gives practical applications of this theory. Theoretical Background Hist...

PERSONAL STATEMENT 1. Overview My definition of scholarship follows that espoused by the late Ernest Boyer, American educator and president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: " The scholarship of engagement means connecting the rich resources of the university to our most pressing social, civic, and ethical problems, to our children, to our schools, to our teachers and ...

critical pedagogy (cp) empowers l2 learners to have a voice in the classroom and in the society. this study was an attempt to investigate whether the current classroom discourse  in  iran  can  endow  the  l2  learners with  a  critical  awareness  to  actively transform their learning processes and creatively engage in collaborative dialogues to construct new knowledge. to this end, the discou...

Abstract Numerous research shows us the relationship between management and process of educational leadership results in quality system internationally at time globalisation. That is why we will talk this article about commitment that education universities, particular, have to constant development improvement teaching updating study projects, among others, above all, their teachers, as well wh...

This meta-analysis employs a theoretical framework in quantitatively synthesizing empirical studies that investigate the effects of distance education (DE) versus classroom instruction on undergraduate student achievement. Analyses of 218 findings from 103 studies were conducted according to how media were used to support DE pedagogy. The results indicate that the effect sizes for synchronous i...

This study explored the effect of input vs. collaborative output tasks on Iranian EFL learners’ grammatical accuracy and their willingness to communicate (WTC). In so doing, the study utilized 3 input (i.e., textual enhancement, processing instruction, and discourse) and 3 collaborative output (i.e., dictogloss, reconstruction cloze task, and jigsaw) tasks and compared their effects on 5 Englis...

The School of Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica (PUC) started developing its MOOC initiative in September 2014. Since then, the school has been producing MOOCs based on specialized topics for Coursera, besides working on MOOCs to complement on-campus courses for Open edX. In parallel with the course production, the school started implementing MOOCbased hybrid pedagogies. In order t...

Over 400 e-learning grant applications from Australian primary schools were analysed to determine the nature of the proposed ICT-based projects in Literacy and Numeracy. Three key dimensions emerged from the teacher descriptions: ICT Infrastructure, Motivation and ICT Use, and Pedagogy and Innovation. The three dimensions, and the interactions between the dimensions, provide a means for underst...