The Critical Language Reflection Tool

Critical reflection is an integral part of the teaching and learning process that requires educators to reflect on their assumptions and practices to promote equity in their classrooms. While critical reflection practices and frameworks have been proposed in teacher education, a TESOL-specific tool that engages with the unique complexities of world Englishes has not been developed. The current chapter, thus, engages in critical praxis by providing an evidence-based, step-by-step reflection tool for TESOL educators to enact inquiry. The reflection tool is called the critical language reflection tool, which offers open-ended questions surrounding assumption analysis, contextual awareness, and reflection-based action. Moreover, it applies a critical lens to the TESOL international teaching standards to help TESOL educators and teacher educators foster critical consciousness in TESOL classroom contexts.

Of Time, Renewal, and Scholarship: Volume 11 (2021) Wrapped

This editorial discusses the articles published and the activities undertaken by The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship during 2021, and calls for research system-wide cultural changes and wider contextual awareness in order to make scholarly communication fairer and up to the challenges of our time.

Conceptualizing and Engaging in Reflective Practice: Experienced Evaluators’ Perspectives

The purpose of this study was to determine professional evaluators’ perceptions of reflective practice (RP) and the extent and manner in which they engage in RP behaviors. Nineteen evaluators with 10 or more years of experience in the evaluation field were interviewed to explore our understanding and practice of RP in evaluation. Findings suggest that RP is a process of self and contextual awareness, involving thinking and questioning, and individual and group meaning-making, focused on facilitating growth in the form of learning and improvement. The roles of individual and collaborative reflection as well as reflection in- and on-action are also discussed. Findings support a call for the further refinement of our understanding of RP in evaluation practice. Evaluators seeking to be better reflective practitioners should be competent in skills such as facilitation and interpersonal skills, as well as budget needed time for RP in evaluation accordingly.

Rancang Bangun Aplikasi Smart Touring Berbasis Android

Perkembangan teknologi saat ini begitu cepat. Teknologi membuat perubahan pada peradaban manusia. Telah banyak kegiatan manusia yang didukung oleh kemajuan teknologi. Tak terkecuali kegiatan touring yang dilakukan bersama-sama. Touring adalah kegiatan berkendara dari suatu tempat ke tempat lain secara bersama-sama. Saat ini komunitas touring terus meningkat, namun masih memiliki beberapa permasalahan saat melakukan aktifitasnya. Saat ini salah satu permasalahan yang ada pada aktifitas touring adalah pengendara satu dengan yang lainnya tidak bisa mengetahui lokasi semua teman touring mereka. Oleh karena itu sangat dimungkinkan ada anggota touring mereka yang tertinggal jauh atau salah jalur. Dengan teknologi smartphone yang sangat pesat, dimungkinkan dibangun sebuah sistem yang dapat mendukung kegiatan touring tersebut. Pada penelitian ini telah berhasil dibangun sistem yang dapat mendukung kelancaran aktifitas touring. Fokus penelitian ini adalah membangun sistem touring yang dapat mendeteksi keberadaan semua member touring ketika sedang melakukan kegiatan touring. Sistem yang dibangun adalah berbasis contextual awareness, yaitu sistem yang mampu memberikan informasi kepada pengguna dengan data yang didapat dari lingkungannya. Dalam hal ini adalah memberikan informasi ketika ada member touring yang berjauhan dengan member touring lainnya.

Frameworks for evaluating education programmes and work related learning: a scoping review

Purpose It has become accepted practice to include an evaluation alongside learning programmes that take place at work, as a means of judging their effectiveness. There is a tendency to focus such evaluations on the relevance of the intervention and the amount of learning achieved by the individual. The aim of this review is to examine existing evaluation frameworks that have been used to evaluate education interventions and, in particular, assess how these have been used and the outcomes of such activity. Design/methodology/approach A scoping review using Arskey and O’Malley’s five stage framework was undertaken to examine existing evaluation frameworks claiming to evaluate education interventions. Findings Forty five articles were included in the review. A majority of papers concentrate on learner satisfaction and/or learning achieved. Rarely is a structured framework mentioned, or detail of the approach to analysis cited. Typically, evaluations lacked baseline data, control groups, longitudinal observations and contextual awareness. Practical implications This review has implications for those involved in designing and evaluating work-related education programmes, as it identifies areas where evaluations need to be strengthened and recommends how existing frameworks can be combined to improve how evaluations are conducted. Originality/value This scoping review is novel in its assessment and critique of evaluation frameworks employed to evaluate work-related education programmes.

English Medium Instruction and the Internationalization of Higher Education in Latin America: A Case Study from a Colombian University

This study discusses the implementation of English medium instruction (EMI) at a Colombian university. First, the paper reviews the rise of EMI in the internationalization of higher education. Second, it illustrates how one university incorporated EMI as part of an internationalization process. Third, it identifies the perceptions that a group of administrators, faculty, and students have regarding the EMI initiative. Questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis were conducted. Findings suggest that EMI is tied to the structuring of an internationalization office, curricular reforms, and English language learning support. Participants’ perceptions are associated with their imaginaries, identities, experiences, and obligations in relation to the English language. The study concludes that the implementation of EMI within the internationalization of universities is inevitable, yet a sustainable EMI strategy requires contextual awareness and articulation amongst its participants.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (of data): navigating the temptations of the post-COVID hybrid campus

<div class="WordSection1"><p>For several years, universities and colleges have been exploring the potential use of activity data – already gathered by their digital systems – to improve their processes. Learning processes were the first to adopt these techniques, with a wide range of “learning analytics” services already in use. Similar approaches to curriculum development and effective use of campus spaces are also being explored. The COVID-19 pandemic has raised the question of whether infection prevention and support processes might also be data-enhanced. The adoption of a hybrid teaching mode by many institutions – where students are present on campus, but some face-to-face activities move online – is likely to increase the amount of data available. However this comes at a time of high stress, for both students and staff, when many of the concerns that had already been raised about “analytics” – over-simplification, lack of contextual awareness, dataveillance and a possible reaction against technology – are particularly salient. Emergency laws may provide less guidance. This paper suggests four questions – Will it Help? Will it Work? Will it Comfort? and Will it Fly? – as a framework for discussing data-enhanced processes among campus communities. Five “concept cars” are used to illustrate how these questions can be used to explore ideas and identify those likely to be widely accepted. If a proposed use of data cannot achieve consensus and trust there is unlikely to be willing compliance with its data collection or advice.</p></div>