Boredom has a bad reputation in higher education, as many negative outcomes are associated with this experience. But should boredom be avoided at all costs? Could boredom be guided towards more appropriate, even desirable outcomes -- such as creativity? Through making use of concept analyses to investigate current conceptualisations of boredom and…

This volume includes two sections of the 2018 NORDSCI international conference proceedings: (1) Education and Educational Research; and (2) Language and Linguistics. Education and Educational Research includes 22 papers relating to scientific topics in the full spectrum of education, including history, sociology and economy of education,…

Examines significant factors in the teaching-learning process which appear in Arthur Conan Doyle's fiction about Sherlock Holmes. These processes include deduction, memory, specialized knowledge, perception, emotional control, and divergent thinking. (Author/KC)

Reviews research carried on at Educational Testing Service during the period July 1, 1970 through June 30, 1971. The research areas covered are: (1) Psychological Research (human development, learning and cognition, personality, and social behavior); (2) Educational Applications (early and primary education, secondary education, higher education,…