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| Peer-assisted Learning/Mentoring (PALM) Project | Sep 7 2023 - 11:29am |
Peer learning has extensively been used in education to facilitate and maximise students’ academic performance. |
| Women in Involuntary Bogus Self-Employment Project | Sep 7 2023 - 11:22am |
The aim of this empirical study is to understand the impact of involuntary false self-employment on female educators’ job satisfaction and well-being in the public educational sector in Cyprus and unravel the barriers that mothers with school-age children still face. |
| Educational Digital Storytelling in Management Education | Sep 7 2023 - 11:21am |
The aim of the current approach was to enhance all (400+) L4 students’ leaning experience and improve their academic performance and motivation to learn by using a powerful technology-enhanced learning approach (DS) and an inclusive formative assessment strategy (ICGA). I used ICGA to promote peer learning/mentoring and help students better understand the assessment criteria and requirements of the assignment, the theories involved in the module (i.e., digital business strategies), receive multiple feedback, and develop valuable professional skills i.e., negotiation. I used DS to: |
| English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Lecturers’ Inclusive Formative Assessment Literacy in Higher Education | Sep 7 2023 - 11:20am |
Despite increased research on formative assessment, few studies report on lecturers’ formative assessment practices in EAP. |
| Dynamic and Inclusive Multilingual Assessment for Sustainable Development in Higher Education (DIMA for HESD) | Sep 7 2023 - 11:19am |
The DIMA for HESG project (2022-2023) is a year-long project, in terms of which I will implement a multilingual approach toward comprehension in assessment (MACA) that has first been explored by Shohamy (2011) combined with a dynamic assessment approach (DA) that has been developed within the Vygotskian sociocultural theory of learning (Vygotsky, 1978). |
| Handbook of Research on Fostering Social Justice Through Intercultural and Multilingual Communication: Pedagogy, Andragogy, and | Sep 6 2023 - 1:26pm |
The book provides insights into the field of multilingualism, multiculturalism, and education for social justice in primary, secondary, post-secondary, and higher education. Social justice in education refers to a commitment to challenging social, cultural, and economic inequalities imposed on individuals arising from any differential distribution of power, resources, and privilege. |
| The Use of Student-Generated Videos and Intercultural Group Assessment to Promote Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in HE | Sep 6 2023 - 1:25pm |
Student-generated videos are a new form of assessment that has been increasingly used in Higher Education to enhance students’ engagement and intercultural awareness, especially in Business Schools. Group diversity in assessment has also emerged recently but has not been widely explored as a means to promote Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in the diverse student cohorts in today’s plurilingual Higher Education Institutions. |
| Error Treatment in L2 Writing: Fostering Social Justice by Using Active Self-Correction With Multilingual and Multicultural Stud | Sep 6 2023 - 1:24pm |
Providing feedback is considered to be an ethical and professional responsibility of the lecturer in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). However, students – especially low-achieving multilingual and multicultural students from minority groups - seldom make good use of the feedback and often repeat the same mistakes in subsequent writing assignments. The current study investigated the impact of lecturer e-correction (digital pen - DP) and students’ active self-correction (ASC) on multilingual and multicultural undergraduate students’ writing performance in a HEI in the UK. |
| Profiling the Writing Competency of BAME Undergraduate Students: Fostering Inclusion and Academic Success to Improve Retention i | Sep 6 2023 - 1:18pm |
Higher Education students from a Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background tend to withdraw from their undergraduate degree in the United Kingdom (UK). It is therefore important to explore their writing challenges to increase student retention and reduce the ethnicity awarding gap. The current study examines and describes the written communication competency strengths and weaknesses of randomly selected BAME undergraduate ESL students at a Higher Education Institution (HEI) in the UK. |
| Handbook of Research on Promising Practices for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education | Sep 6 2023 - 1:17pm |
"Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the forefront of current discussion, as these issues have become an international concern for politicians, government agencies, social activists, and the general public. Higher education institutions internationally face considerable challenges in terms of diversity management of both their students and staff, which limits the success of individuals, institutions, and the sector as a whole. |
| The Lived Experiences of Female Educational Leaders in Higher Education in the UK: Academic Resilience and Gender | Sep 6 2023 - 1:15pm |
This article discusses female educational leaders’ experiences in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in the UK to unravel both barriers and facilitators and their main guiding principles in leading as advancing women in leadership roles is in the best interest of the society. The current study revealed that they still face sex-related barriers but have more support as more women have entered HEI. It concludes that HEI need to examine the kinds of professional development programs offered to aspiring female leaders and other staff to help women become more successful as leaders. |
| New Perspectives on Language and Education | Sep 6 2023 - 1:14pm |
Sviatlana Karpava (2021). Book Review: Breuer, E. O., Lindgren, E., Stavans, A. and van Steendam, E. (2021). Multilingual Literacy. New Perspectives on Language and Education 85. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. LINGUIST List. http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-2039.html |
| Joint statement on support to children and families at risk of poverty during COVID-19 | Sep 6 2023 - 1:12pm |
"Make Mothers Matter, together with 20 other partners of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children, added its voice in a joint statement calling for EU Member States and the European Commission to support children and families at risk of poverty during COVID-19. |
| "Building back better by transforming our economic system to prioritize wellbeing – with care and education at its heart" | Sep 6 2023 - 1:11pm |
UN Geneva, HRC intersessional meeting - MMM's contribution to the discussion on “Building Back Better: Integrating Human Rights in Sustainable and Resilient Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic’. The Covid-19 crisis and its cascade of consequences has shown what really matters: It has all been about care and education, and the people performing these duties, whether paid or unpaid. It has laid bare the critical role of care, not only healthcare, but also unpaid care work, i.e. |
| Troubling social policy during turbulent times: Children and UK Conservative Governments since 2015 | Sep 6 2023 - 1:07pm |
Book chapter in H Bochel and G Daly (Eds) (Forthcoming 2024) Conservative Governments and Social Policy, Bristol: Policy Press. |
| Support to the family and positive parenting: Training programs for professionals in the social protection system | Sep 6 2023 - 1:06pm |
Supporting the family and positive parenting is important for improving the resources and competences of parents for raising, educating, protecting the health, well-being and rights of children. The aim of the work is to identify and analyze accredited training programs related to family support and positive parenting, which are available to social care professionals in the Republic of Serbia in order to assess the availability of modern knowledge about positive parenting among social care professionals. |
| Family and parenting support as part of the solution for fighting child poverty and promoting child well-being | Sep 6 2023 - 1:04pm |
The full link is: https://www.oecd-forum.org/posts/family-and-parenting-support-as-part-of... |
| "Consultation with Children on the Move – Lessons Learned in Creating a Child-friendly Research Process" | Sep 6 2023 - 1:03pm |
In order to respond to the growing needs of migrant families with children, and especially unaccompanied children, who were travelling on the Western Balkan route, social workers and other field workers and child protection officers had to acquire new knowledge and develop specific competencies in a relatively short period of time. Although Serbia is mainly a country of transit, migrant children, who have been staying in Serbia for a longer period of time, have experienced challenges in access to services due to language barriers, overstretched capacities and insufficient coordination. |
| Measuring impact of the Child Participation Assessment Tool Outcome indicators and guidance for data collection | Sep 6 2023 - 1:02pm |
"The Council of Europe Child Participation Assessment Tool (CPAT) was developed to provide governments with indicators against which they could assess their progress in implementing Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. However, its ten indicators only address the measures that are needed to build a conducive environment for child participation. In other words, the foundational elements necessary to facilitate and support children’s participation were the focus. |
| Be the hand that loves and the word that guides | Sep 6 2023 - 1:01pm |
"The manual was created by professionals with many years of experience in the field of early childhood development, as well as the protection of children from abuse and neglect, who have gained experience and are applying it them within three systems - social protection, health and education systems. Right on comprehensive observation of the child's personal development and his development within the family of the nucleus, that is, of the general system, helped to design and create this manual. |