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Mahoney, Jamie; Le Louvier, Kahina; Lawson, Shaun; Bertel, Diotima; Ambrosetti, Elena – Research Ethics, 2022
The ubiquitous use of social platforms across the globe makes them attractive options for investigating social phenomena including migration. However, the use of social media data raises several crucial ethical issues around the areas of informed consent, anonymity and profiling of individuals, which are particularly sensitive when looking at a…
Descriptors: Social Media, Ethics, Informed Consent, Research Methodology
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Ruck, Andy; Mannion, Greg – Environmental Education Research, 2020
This article details the approach taken to a recent study in an environmental education context, with a focus on the writing and analysis of ethnographic fieldnotes. This approach drew upon aspects of new materialist theory and multi-species ethnography for the writing of fieldnotes, and Situational Analysis for their analysis. These approaches…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Environmental Education, Research Methodology, Theories
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Safar, Josefina – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
In this paper, I discuss methodological and ethical issues that arose in the process of documenting lexical variation in Yucatec Maya Sign Languages (YMSLs). YMSLs are indigenous sign languages used by deaf and hearing people in Yucatec Maya villages with a high incidence of deafness in the peninsula of Yucatán, Mexico. The documentation of rural…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Research, American Indian Languages, Language Variation
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Shivener, Rich; Da Silva, Jessica Oliveira; Rahman, Anika – Composition Forum, 2022
In this essay, we argue that Twitch is an incredible platform for cultivating discourse-based interviews (DBIs) and has yet to be addressed in DBI research involving digital tools. To demonstrate that argument, we detail the methods behind collaborative research project between two undergraduates and a faculty studying game developers on the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Interviews, Computer Software, Barriers
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van Rooyen, Heidi; d'Abdon, Raphael – Education as Change, 2020
This article argues that poetry is an act of meditation, improvisation and exploration, and urgency is what guides the writer into (and through) the poetic journey. In the light of this, this article illustrates the features of a workshop that was designed to guide social and human scientists in the delicate process of turning raw data into poems.…
Descriptors: Poetry, Creative Activities, Social Sciences, Western Civilization
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Esteban-Guitart, Moises; Rajala, Antti; Cole, Michael – Qualitative Research in Education, 2023
The article proposes and illustrates a methodological framework that aligns with the action-research models and utopian methodology in particular, although it represents a more substantial leap forward, especially regarding the distributed nature of decision making in the different processes of research/intervention, and its multiple and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Methodology, Decision Making, Intervention
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Porta, Carolyn M.; Mann, Erin M.; Amiri, Rohina; Avery, Melissa D.; Azim, Sheba; Conway-Klaassen, Janice M.; Golzareh, Parvin; Joya, Mahdawi; Mwikarago, Emil Ivan; Nejabi, Mohammad Bashir; Olejniczak, Megan; Radhakrishnan, Raghu; Tengera, Olive; Thomas, Manuel S.; Weinkauf, Julia L.; Wiesner, Stephen M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Despite ongoing insecurity, Afghanistan has demonstrated improvement in health outcomes. Reasons for this success include a strategic public-private health service delivery model and investment in Afghan health care workforce development. Afghan universities have the primary responsibility for ensuring that an adequate health care workforce is…
Descriptors: Health Services, Public Health, Delivery Systems, Labor Force Development
Senefonte, Fabio Henrique Rosa – Online Submission, 2019
Unquestionably, discussions on the internationalization of higher education have gained currency in the educational context (Knight, 2004; Altbach; Knight, 2007; Delgado-Marquez; Hurtado-Torres; Bondar, 2011), and language policies prove to be a crucial issue in the internationalization arena. In this regard, Paraná's government created the Paraná…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Franchetto, Bruna; Rice, Keren – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
In the last decades, the documentation of endangered languages has advanced greatly in the Americas. In this paper we survey the role that international funding programs have played in advancing documentation in this part of the world, with a particular focus on the growth of documentation in Brazil, and we examine some of the major opportunities…
Descriptors: Language Research, American Indian Languages, Documentation, Role
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Chambers, Angela; Atkinson, David; Farr, Fiona – Language Teaching, 2015
The Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS), founded in 1997, brings together researchers and postgraduate students from several disciplines in language studies, and is structured in three research clusters: New learning environments; Discourse, society and identity; and Plurilingualism and language policy. There is a certain amount of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cluster Grouping, Language Research, Languages
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Furtuna, Daniela – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The author describes the steps taken by a research team, of which she was part, to develop a specific methodology for assessing student attainment in primary school, working with the Programme for the Analysis of Education Systems (PASEC) of the Conference of Ministers of Education of French-speaking Countries (CONFEMEN). This methodology provides…
Descriptors: Item Banks, Test Items, Test Construction, African Studies
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Kanyal, Mallika – Management in Education, 2014
The article argues for the participation and involvement of students in developing learning spaces within higher education. In early childhood education there is a strong emphasis upon rights, democracy and planning learning through listening to young children. Taking inspiration from this, the study explores the use of participatory approaches in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Student Participation, Higher Education, Learning Resources Centers
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Norwich, Brahm; Ylonen, Annamari – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2015
This paper is about a design-based research project which evaluated the novel use of Lesson Study for assessment (LSfA) purposes. It starts by explaining the principles and design of LSfA procedures based on a Lesson Study model and dynamic assessment principles. It outlines the training and support provided to six Lesson Study teams in three…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Alternative Assessment, Educational Principles, Program Descriptions
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Sheppard, Lorraine A.; Jorgensen, Anna Maria S.; Crowe, Michael J. – Qualitative Report, 2012
Participatory action research (PAR) can be used in the health professions to redefine their roles. This study investigated a small health professional group, the members of The Chiropractic Association Singapore (TCAS), by using a PAR method; researchers and participants gained insights into the self-regulation of a health profession. A…
Descriptors: Action Research, Health Occupations, Medical Education, Foreign Countries
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Åkerlind, Gerlese; McKenzie, Jo; Lupton, Mandy – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2014
This chapter describes an innovative method of curriculum design that is based on combining phenomenographic research, and the associated variation theory of learning, with the notion of disciplinary threshold concepts to focus specialised design attention on the most significant and difficult parts of the curriculum. The method involves three…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Learning Theories, Action Research, Instructional Design
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