Month: January 2020
Course Redesign: A Case of Critical Spiral Pedagogy
Designing courses that are meaningful to diverse learners and still align them to the goals of a university and its …
Afrofuturism 2.0 – A New Cultural Enabler for the Digital Age
Afrofuturism as a concept is about 25 years old, with Mark Dery’s interview essay Black to the Future (1993) giving …
Transformational School Leaders Support Teachers to Foster Student Grit
Grit has drawn increasing intention in the field of educational research. As a crucial noncognitive indicator, grit has been used …
A Case Study of Assignments Through an Online Mentoring Program
Behind ubiquitous information in the 21st century is the desire for understanding and mastering the information. As with any application-oriented …
Educational Receptivity: Karol Wojtyla’s Philosophy of Community as a Means Towards Embracing Differences
Karol Wojtyla is one of the 20th Century philosophers who personally witnessed the tragedy of World War II in the …
«Kids Do Well If They Can» – Guiding Principles in Health Promoting Work in Kindergartens and Schools
In the programme Healthpromoting Kindergartens and Schools, we work across various educational contexts, and our goal is to facilitate for …
Systematic Work With Motivation and Life Mastery Skills in Upper Secondary School: An Action Research Study From a Norwegian Context
Due to high drop out and falling motivation in upper secondary school, we started a project where we work with …
Systematic Work With Learning Environments: Training Student Representatives to Improve Learning Conditions in Their Classes
In Norwegian schools, student councils have a long tradition, and law enforces students to participate in democratic processes. However, it …
Keeping Hume’s Guillotine: The Validity & Deontic Irrelevance of ‘is’-‘ought’ Inferences
Ever since its formulation in Hume’s (1739) A Treatise of Human Nature, philosophers have had to contend with the idea …
No Child Left Behind: Bridging the Literacy Achievement Gap of Looked-after Children in Secondary School Through Speaking and Listening
This paper explores the key challenges that children in care and children who have suffered adverse experiences face in their …
Applying Teaching Strategies for Design Students’ Learning Effectiveness on Blended Learning
Flipped teaching has been going on for a long time in various ages and academic fields, and the learning effectiveness …
Adapting Complex Time: Story of Your Life (1998) and Arrival (2016)
In both literature and film, we’re faced with complex characters, complex plots, complex themes, complexity in narration and, occasionally, complexity …
How Does One Get in? Linguistic Capital and the Cambridge Undergraduate Admissions Interview
The Cambridge University Admissions Interview is a gatekeeping encounter in which academic staff members question, and evaluate, prospective undergraduates on …
The Poetry Box: A Student Centered Constructivist Approach to Poetry Lessons in Secondary Education
Poetry has often been compared to abstract paintings over the years. However, it doesn’t mean poetry composition lessons have to …
Diversity Training in Graduate School
Graduate students in an Educational Psychology program completed a course on the Multicultural Family. Thirteen students agreed to participate in …
A Cognitive Linguistics Application for Second Language Grammar Pedagogy
Due to the complexity of the English tense-aspect system, tense and aspect constitute a major source of error for EFL …
Error Analysis: The Main Writing Errors of EFL Learners Task 2 IELTs Academic Essay
This study sought to examine and analyze the frequency of writing errors and determine the causes behind such errors made …
Increasing Tutor EI Skills to Improve Tutee L2 Writing
Russian academic writing centers challenge to instill the educational nature of individual consultations (IC) adapting them to the Russian mindset. …
Translation and Interpreting Activities in ESL to Recharge Sociocultural Awareness in Students
Teaching translation and interpreting techniques obviously contribute to the effective and efficient development of linguistic and communicative skills in students. …
Needs Assessment: Do We Need It? A Case Study in an EFL Writing Class in Vietnam
Needs assessment focuses on "the learning needs of students, and then, once they are identified, needs are translated into learning …
Global Education in Non-native English-speaking Countries, Challenges and Opportunities: A Focus on Indonesian Students at a Selected Japanese University
Research has shown that generation Z is much more eager to include global education in their lives. The experience of …
Democratization of Education Through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) in Asia
This paper explores whether Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are likely to have an empowering effect on access to education …
Implementation of an Integrated Program of English and Character Education in an EFL Classroom
Character Education is usually reflecting some good values in order to empower students to have a better development of individual …
The Ratios of CEFR-J vocabulary Usage Compared with GSL and AWL in Elementary EFL Classrooms and Its Implications
This is a corpus-based study using an elementary English classroom corpus to examine a) the ratios of vocabulary usage of …
Using Assignments Linked with Assessments to Teach Qualitative Research in Education
Educational researchers make use of highly diverse qualitative methods but teaching
these methods to students involves considerable challenges. This paper …
Panethnic Moments: Mestizaje and the Philippines in Discourses of Hygiene and Disease
Gloria Anzaldúa’s mestiza consciousness refers to a new consciousness defined by ambiguity and an attentiveness to difference; mestiza consciousness’s refusal …
Just-in-Time-Teaching – A Solution to Meet the Current and Future Challenges Many African University Lecturers Face: Ethiopia as an Example
The future challenges for universities are fueling the current situation at many African universities. The main pressure is coming from …
Fourth Grade Slow Learners’ Reading Error Analysis in Inclusive Elementary School in Indonesia
This study aims to analyze 4th grade slow learners’ reading errors in reading Indonesian text in an inclusive elementary school …
Health Consideration in Architectural Design: An Interrelation Between Architecture and Neuroscience
Neuroarchitecture is a new frontier in architecture that lies between the interrelation of neuroscience and architecture. The aim of this …
Effects on Japanese Students Who Had No Overseas Experiences by Japanese Students Who Had Overseas Experiences in Intercultural Co-learning Classes
Recently the number of international students at Japanese universities has been increasing rapidly and many of Japanese universities have introduced …
Embedding Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Design and Technology Subject Through Value-based Approach
As the world evolves in technology and rapid development, education remains the optimal mechanism to instill moral values and virtues …
Compiling Learner Corpora on Four Types of Common Errors Made by Chinese EFL Students
A number of EFL studies have been conducted in China to analyze different types of common lexico-grammatical mistakes made by …
The Risky-choice Framing Effect During Repeatedly Decision Process in Dynamic Context
Prospect theory can predict the susceptibility of framing effect such that decision-makers are opt for taking risks when they feel …
The Chameleon Effect: The Relationship Between Imitation and Interdependence
The chameleon effect is the unconscious mimicry of nonverbal behaviours such as mannerisms, expressions, and postures. Current literature is deficit …
Relationship Analysis Between Smartphone Dependency Consciousness and Actual Usage Time
Now a day, the problems of long-time use of smartphones among youth has been sparked social debate. The long-time use …
Discussion on the Model of Integrated Long Term Care Institutions Based on Information and Communication Technology
Introduction: aging population has become a world-wide concern nowadays, to develop a model for integrate long term care which combines …
Emerging Leadership Orientations in a Changing World
This paper presents findings from a quantitative research study conducted among the adult population of the United States and Asia-Pacific. …
Tendencies in Higher Education System Through ANT
The report considers modern tendencies prevailing in the higher education system while training technical specialists nowadays. According to the author, …
Stories on YouTube: Can This Be an Effective Learning Tool to Improve Listening and Reading Comprehension Skills?
Use of online learning opportunities among language teachers and learners has become one of the commonly utilized tools as they …
Homework Worksheets Designed to Promote Learner Autonomy
Developing learner autonomy can be a long and arduous journey but it is what language educators aspire to achieve. Discover …
Living With Invisible Disabilities in a School Setting
Inclusive Education advocates for the integration of students with special needs in an educative environment with non-special needs students. It …
Social Capital and Risk of Tuberculosis in Elderly Population
Background: In Japan, two-thirds of newly notified tuberculosis (TB) cases were older than 65 years. A large part of TB …
The Changes of Care Needs and Their Associated Factors Among the Recipients of LTC Insurance in South Korea
Objectives: This study identified changes of the needs of long-term care (LTC) services, and their associated factors among the recipients …
The Associated Factors With the Costs of Long-term Care and Medical Services for Older People in South Korea
Abstract: South Korea is facing an unprecedented demand for medical and long-term care (LTC) services for ageing individuals. We analysed …
Psychological Distress and Its Relationship to Burnout Among Academicians in Malaysia
Introduction: Academicians has multiple roles such as teaching and learning responsibilities, producing impactful publications, applying grants and administrative duties. The …
Burnout and Job Satisfaction Among University Staff in Malaysia
Introduction: Burnout among university staffs potentially affects personal and professional performance and causes job dissatisfaction.
Objectives: The purpose of this …
Stress, Anxiety and Depression Among Academicians in Science and Technology Faculties in a Malaysian University
Introduction: In Malaysia, academic personnel are under pressure to build international reputation, increase funding and are expected to perform in …
A Minimum Temporal Window for Deviance Detection of Frequency-modulated Sweeps: A Magnetoencephalography Study
The ability to rapidly encode the direction of frequency contour in frequency-modulated (FM) sweeps is essential for speech processing. Psychophysical …
The Influences of Teacher Professional Standards on Indonesian Novice Teachers’ Learning Experiences
Teacher professional standards were introduced in Indonesia as part of an agenda for national educational reform to improve teacher quality. …
Improving University Teachers’ Professional Ethics in Teaching Practice in China
Teacher's professional ethics, short for teacher ethics, refers to the relatively stable moral concepts, moral qualities and codes of conduct …
Representation of Chinese-Sundanese Ethnic Identity in Suryakencana Bogor through Code Switching and Code Mixing
Indonesia has 1340 ethnic groups with 300 different ethnic groups recorded (www.netralnews.com). According to Hasbullah (www.academia.edu), there are around 726 …
Planning and Designing Multi-function Commercial Space of Chinese Wonderland
The global economy has increased vigorously especially tourism industry. Tourism is one of the most effective way to grow local …
Planning and Designing Research With Brand of Indigo Art Living Store for Chinese Dining Space – Li River Side
In recent times, the tourism industry has experienced an increase in tourism revenue. However, this upward trend has also led …
The Dynamics of Depressive Symptoms on Criminal Investigators in Semarang (North Central Java) Police
According to Sulistyanto (Assistant of Human Resources of Indonesian National Police), a large percentage of police suicide is related to …
Clients’ Experiences of Counseling Engagement in Thailand
This qualitative study aimed to explore clients’ lived experiences of counseling engagement, which is regarded as the common factor contributing …
Designing Functional Apparel for Seniors With Chronic Physical & Mental Impairment
The UN "World Population Prospects 2019" projects global megatrends, declining fertility and an increase in the ageing population. Body organs-degrade, …
Art Therapy Approaches to Educate Lombok Earthquake Survivors to Reduce Their Depressive Symptoms
Art therapy (AT) has been utilized by many therapists to help people to recover from various psychological problems. Many professional …
Teachers’ Perceptions of Integrated STEM and Attitudes Towards Developmental Challenges in Vietnam
Integrated STEM education provides students with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics foundational knowledge that linked to their real world. Paradoxically, …
Cyber Bullying Pattern of Indonesian High School Students in Instagram Through Text Mining
The cases of bullying among high school students in Indonesia continue to increase every year. Now the case of bullying …
Filial Responsibility: A Pragmatic Reading on the Fictions of Ernesto Lariosa
The family is an essential social unit. It is in the family that people are prepared for the public community. …
Study on Communication Design Education Establishing Project-based Advertising Competition
Design competitions are often thought as a tool for creating new trends and ideas, so they are widely used in …
Unleash the Warrior in You: A Mixed Method Study on the Psychological Well Being of UE Student Athletes
Psychological well – being is a balanced, well – integrated, and harmonious interplay between six facets of the self which …
From Self Portraits to Geminoid Androids – Identity and Difference in Robotic Doppelgängers
The real and the virtual maintain ambiguous relations in the contemporary context of artificial intelligence. From the social phenomenon of …
A Soft Museum of Hardware Use: Testimonies From the Early Experience of Digital Devices as Historical, Pedagogical and Narrative Assets
This research addresses the validation of narrative legacies of a first generation of digital and online media users upon its …
The Effect of Smell in the Representation of Family in Post-war Japanese Films
This study aims to examine the effect of smell in the representation of family in Japanese films of the 1950s …
Embracing Difference: Case Study of BoA in Japanese-Korean Pop Music Album Cover Design
BoA is a Korean musician who has a high reputation as an art performer in Asia, especially Japan and Korea …
The Micro Motion of Ambient Surrounding – An Exploration of Techno-biophilic Design
Biophilia hypothesis was devised by Edward O. Wilson(1984), being based on evolutionary psychology, which suggests that "people have the innate …
Influence of Jingxing Ancient Route to the Changes of Villages Along It in China
The Jingxing Ancient Route has been a natural passage linking Hebei and Shanxi Province for over 2000 years in China, …
Modern Japanese Girls Flying Into the Sky: Gender Norms and Aviation Fashion in the 1920s
In 1952, the year of the end of the US occupation of Japan, Japan Women’s Association of Aviation (JWAA) was …
Protests in Hong Kong: From Confucianism to Levinas’ Substitution
2019 was a tumultuous year for Hong Kong. The protests began in June with the concern of the extradition bill, …
Energy’s Proleptic Promises: Locating Infrastructure and the Future Anterior in Yamashita and Lerner
This paper draws on recent developments in the energy humanities to argue for a more multifaceted account of the temporality …
Evaluating Socio-cultural and Spatial Impacts on Brownfields Recycling in Europe. What is the Effect on the City and Territory?
Throughout the last decades, more and more attention has been given by scholars and practitioners to neglected and abandoned sites …
Digital Literacy as a Factor for Sustainable Society
Digital literacy should be seen as directly related to the strengthening of information and communication technology. The integration of information …
Disintegration and Reshaping: Northeast Renaissance and the Working Class Narrative
Northeast Renaissance refers to a cultural movement that reflects the spiritual outlook of youth in Northeast China in 2019. The …
A Study on the Aesthetics of Illustrations in Third and Fourth Graders’ Chinese Textbooks
Textbooks are one of the most important tools for learning. Illustrations in a textbook can have critical influence on students’ …
Visual Media: Supporting Content Learning and Critical Thinking in the CLIL Classroom
As English-medium content courses become more widespread in Japanese higher education, there is growing interest in multi-modal approaches which can …
Embracing Difference: Two Case Studies of Western Painting Style Embroidery in China
This study explores how traditional Chinese embroidery representing the special texture of western paintings through changes in stitch, color and …
Field Trips in English Teaching in Vietnam
It’s years since the dawn of field trips which have been widely used as an effective tool in foreign language …
Comparison of Healthy Aging Between Asian, American and European Countries: Results From the Athlos Consortium
Research efforts to measure healthy aging have been diverse and limited to specific populations. This diversity limits the potential to …
Applying Morita Therapy to University Students – A Program in Progress
With the push to “internationalize” university departments, Japanese students are encouraged (and in some cases required) to participate in study …
From Andragogy to Heutagogy in Advancing the 5C’s for 21st Century Foreign Language Competency
Andragogy was an essential first step for teachers at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies and Wenzao Ursuline University in equipping …
First Grade Students’ Mathematical Ideas on Addition in Classroom Using Lesson Study and Open Approach
Students’ mathematical idea is very important in learning mathematics. Many studies had proposed learning activities to promote learning performance focusing …
Mindfulness and Depression: The Mediating Role of Psychological Flexibility
Objective: The aim of the current study was to examine the mediating role of psychological flexibility on the relationship between …
Comparative Interpretation of Tree Painting between People on Different Loneliness Levels
Tree drawing is a form of projective test used to assess one’s development (Koch, 1992). In Jungian psychology, tree(s) are …
Local Tourism Destination Content in Online Travel Agency Promotion
Online Travel Agency (OTA) had an impact on making people ease to travel, through their mobile devices without any extra …
Politeness and Impoliteness Strategies in the Courtroom: An Analysis of a Trail Script
This research presents a conversation analysis (CA) study based on the data from an American reality TV show which aims …
From Policy Change to Livelihoods Strategies: Implications of the New Rural Development Model in Vietnam
Since the Doi Moi (Reform) era in 1986, rural development policies in Vietnam have followed a market-based development approach that …
Embracing Difference – The Demonstration of Regional Cultural Aesthetics in Design Elements of Olympics Posters
This research is aimed at analyzing the development and formation of Olympics posters from 1896 to 2019, and studying the …
Whose Festival? Ritual Reconstruction and the Shaping of “Sense of Place”: The Mazu Meets the Mary
On October 20, 2018, in Wanluan Township, Pingtung, Taiwan. A religious activity named "When the Holy Mother (Mazu) From the …
A Structural Analysis of the Social Representations of “Reconciliation” in Cyprus: An Empirical Contribution
In the Cyprus peace process, the practices of co-existence have been centralised in the Nicosia where the intergroup contact is …
The Relationships Between Urbanization and Population Change in the Taipei Area
Urbanization is one of the most significant changes in the world in recent centuries. Cities expanded into rural areas and …
Preschool Teachers’ Learning Self-efficacy in Predicting Technology-teaching Integration: A Comparison Between Taiwan and Malaysia
In Asia, Taiwan is one of the world’s leading producers of information and communication technology products and government continuously invest …
Intercultural Education in Europe: The Bridge Teaching Values of Cultural Diversity
The increasing number of young migrants in Europe has brought a necessity to provide a new educational system. Intercultural education …
The Use of Educational Videos to Promote Kindergarten Students’ Motivation
Due to the constant stream of stimuli offered by technology, children are harder to motivate, and therefore to teach. According …
Are High-proficiency Learners Effective Feedback Providers? A Case Study on Online Peer Feedback in L2 Writing
Due to the advancement of technology or computers, it provides language learners with ample opportunity to engage in meaningful communication …
English Language Teaching Innovation from the Learning Strategies of High-performing Students in a Government University in Ayutthaya, Thailand
This study aims to (1) investigate students’ English learning strategies, (2) analyze the learning strategies of high-performing students, and (3) …