Exploring Learner Identities through M-Learning

2010 ◽  
pp. 350-365
Author(s):  
Ruth Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Considerable Potential ◽  
Diverse Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
How People Learn ◽  
Insight Into

Learning is about making connections: connections from the known to the unknown through interactions and dialogue; connections between people’s ideas and identities. Participation in learning is informed by an understanding of participants’ connections to understanding of themselves and their membership of different groups. The engagement of disenfranchised learners is supported by the opportunities for learners to participate in learning experiences where their knowledge is valued and they are partners in co-producing knowledge and materials. Mobile technologies have considerable potential to support disenfranchised learners to participate in creating and defining a space where they belong in formal education settings. M-learning provides opportunities for learners and educators to be active agents in learning, share their own worlds and perspectives, and together create and recreate their understandings of the world and their own place within it. This chapter analyses a range of learning programmes that have utilised m-learning to engage disenfranchised learners in regional areas across Northern Australia. The author argues that m-learning is more than a tool to engage learners, it provides an insight into understanding how people learn and develop strong identities as learners. The discussion demonstrates the potential of m-learning to engage with ways of knowing and representing knowledge in ways that build strong connections to broad and diverse learning and knowledge societies.

The Environment and Health: An Alternative Perspective

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Policy Solutions

A theoretical approach which may be used to increase understanding of the dynamics of environmental and health policy is outlined. The approach deals with conceptualisations or 'ways of knowing', and, as such, tends to raise questions for debate, rather than advance policy solutions. First, it considers ways in which people have thought about and 'known' the world around them and traces how this has been important in shaping our attitudes and values in relation to it, especially in influencing environmental and health policy. Three aspects are considered: the legacy of Enlightenment and Romantic philosophical frameworks, the significance of underlying contradictory assumptions within these frameworks, and some of the implications of this for public policy. Second, it advances a specific theoretical approach ? the dialectic ? as a means of exploring the relationship between ways of thought and providing insight into the complex dynamics of policy making. It looks briefly at the example of sewage disposal policy before arguing that a dialectic approach may be applied to a range of environmental and health policy situations.

scholarly journals The Contribution of Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) towards World Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 699-703
Author(s):  
Nik Kamal bin Wan Muhammed, Et. al.
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
The World ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Mission Movement ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Modern Perspective

In Indian tradition, the religious development of a person is completed when he experiences the world within himself. Sri Ramakrishna, a Bengali temple-priest propagated a new interpretation of the Hindu scriptures. Without formal education, he interpreted the essence of the scriptures with unprecedented simplicity. With deep insight into the rapidly changing social scenario, he realized the necessity of a humanist religious practice. Therefore, adopting a modern perspective, this paper attempts to highlight the contribution of Sri Ramakrishna in India towards the world culture. Qualitative methods through a systematic sociohistorical analysis that summarized the literature based on documents, books and journals are used in this paper. The results show that the Ramakrishna Mission movement has contributed significantly to Indian civilization in education, humanity, literature and spirituality. Although they are not politically involved, their contribution remains significant in shaping a free-thinking, self-respecting and fearless citizen towards British colonial in India.  

The Use of Developmentally Mobile Applications for Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Promote STEM Activities in Preschool Classrooms

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michail Kalogiannakis ◽  
Stamatios Papadakis
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Stem Learning ◽  
Educational Benefits ◽  
Preschool Classrooms ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Smart Mobile

Studies suggest that the exposure to STEM learning opportunities early in life is important because the development of STEM skills can further students' interest and educational attainment in STEM, expanding their career choices later in life. Smart mobile devices have become ubiquitous in schools and have been transforming educational practices at all ages and levels and almost all over the world. At the same time, there is evidence that teacher education departments lack the knowledge and skill to teach pre-service teachers about using these devices in their daily teaching practice. The findings of this chapter underline the need to develop teaching and learning processes that go beyond a mere transmission of the technical knowledge required to use mobile technologies with educational purposes, focusing instead on raising students' awareness about the educational benefits that the integration of mobile technologies can bring to formal education.

scholarly journals A picture is worth a thousand words: Exploring immersion students’ language learning experiences in Honduras

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Bettney
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Pictures And Words ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Learning English

This qualitative study explored the experience of students learning English in an early partial one-way immersion program in Honduras. While the field of immersion research is well-established in various parts of the world, very little research has focused on programs in Central America. It is important to consider this context as models of bilingual education must be adapted to the needs of the local student population (de Mejía, 2002). Students’ viewpoints are important as a link has been established between students’ perceptions and their rates of second-language acquisition (Hamacher, 2007). To address this research gap, written reflections were collected from 203 students in Grades 1 to 11. Through pictures and words, students portrayed their experiences learning English, including the impact of specific instructional practices and their use of English outside of school. These findings are important as they provide insight into students’ learning experiences within an unexplored immersion context.Este estudio cualitativo exploró la experiencia de estudiantes aprendiendo inglés en un programa de inmersión temprana parcial de una vía en Honduras.  Mientras la investigación sobre la inmersión está bien establecida en varias partes del mundo, se ha realizado muy poca investigación en América Central.  Es importante considerar que este contexto como modelos de educación bilingüe debe ser adaptado a las necesidades de la población estudiantil local (de Mejía, 2002).  Los puntos de vista de los estudiantes son importantes, ya que se ha establecido un vínculo entre la percepción de los alumnos y el ritmo de la adquisición de una segunda lengua (Hamacher, 2007).  Para tratar esta laguna de investigación, se recolectaron reflexiones escritas de 203 alumnos entre primer y undécimo grado.  Los estudiantes representaron sus experiencias aprendiendo inglés a través de dibujos y palabras,  incluyendo el impacto de prácticas docentes específicas y su uso fuera de la escuela.  Estos hallazgos son importantes ya que proveen una perspectiva en las experiencias de aprendizaje de los estudiantes en un contexto inexplorado de inmersión.

Informal Communication in a Formal Context

2022 ◽  
pp. 323-340
Author(s):  
Nuno Ricardo Oliveira ◽  
Ana Patricia Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Formal System ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Formal Context ◽  
Informal Communication ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Available Technology

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in integrating mobile technologies into the formal system in the field of formal education and, in particular, higher education. Furthermore, due to the circumstances caused by the pandemic panorama that extended to most countries in the world in 2020, various sectors, in which education is included, were forced to reinvent and transform themselves in order to adapt to emergency remote education. What the authors propose with this chapter is to make an analysis of the state of the art on the theme of informal communication in the educational context, and particularly in higher education, with the use of the available technology, namely mobile media. Through a literature review already initiated in previous studies, it is intended to know the national and international panorama about the use of mobile applications in the context of higher education and in what way the devices traditionally conceived for informal communication are being used and adapted to a formal context.

Ultrastructure of neuromuscular relationships in the canine heartworm (dirofilaria immitis)

1986 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 278-279
Author(s):  
W. L. Steffens ◽  
Nancy B. Roberts ◽  
J. M. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Dirofilaria Immitis ◽  
Domestic Dogs ◽  
Structural Description ◽  
Pharmacological Effects ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Canine Heartworm ◽  
The World ◽  
Synaptic Region ◽  
Muscle Innervation ◽  
Insight Into

The canine heartworm is a common and serious nematode parasite of domestic dogs in many parts of the world. Although nematode neuroanatomy is fairly well documented, the emphasis has been on sensory anatomy and primarily in free-living soil species and ascarids. Lee and Miller reported on the muscular anatomy in the heartworm, but provided little insight into the peripheral nervous system or myoneural relationships. The classical fine-structural description of nematode muscle innervation is Rosenbluth's earlier work in Ascaris. Since the pharmacological effects of some nematacides currently being developed are neuromuscular in nature, a better understanding of heartworm myoneural anatomy, particularly in reference to the synaptic region is warranted.

Classification of Infant Vocalizations by Untrained Listeners

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 3265-3275
Author(s):  
Heather L. Ramsdell-Hudock ◽  
Anne S. Warlaumont ◽  
Lindsey E. Foss ◽  
Candice Perry
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Listener Responses ◽  
Infant Vocalization ◽  
Early Infant ◽  
Infant Vocalizations ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Speech And Language Development ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose To better enable communication among researchers, clinicians, and caregivers, we aimed to assess how untrained listeners classify early infant vocalization types in comparison to terms currently used by researchers and clinicians. Method Listeners were caregivers with no prior formal education in speech and language development. A 1st group of listeners reported on clinician/researcher-classified vowel, squeal, growl, raspberry, whisper, laugh, and cry vocalizations obtained from archived video/audio recordings of 10 infants from 4 through 12 months of age. A list of commonly used terms was generated based on listener responses and the standard research terminology. A 2nd group of listeners was presented with the same vocalizations and asked to select terms from the list that they thought best described the sounds. Results Classifications of the vocalizations by listeners largely overlapped with published categorical descriptors and yielded additional insight into alternate terms commonly used. The biggest discrepancies were found for the vowel category. Conclusion Prior research has shown that caregivers are accurate in identifying canonical babbling, a major prelinguistic vocalization milestone occurring at about 6–7 months of age. This indicates that caregivers are also well attuned to even earlier emerging vocalization types. This supports the value of continuing basic and clinical research on the vocal types infants produce in the 1st months of life and on their potential diagnostic utility, and may also help improve communication between speech-language pathologists and families.

On Metaphysics and the Political: A Polemics of Reading Baudelaire in the 1930s

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.

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