Christopher Hill, Emad A. S. Abu-Ayyash, T. Charles
{"title":"By nature, a social animal: an exploration of perceptions of online group work","authors":"Christopher Hill, Emad A. S. Abu-Ayyash, T. Charles","doi":"10.1080/0305764X.2023.2206795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2206795","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This research, exploring the value of online group work through postgraduate student perceptions of engagement, surveyed 71 students and interviewed 11, over three rounds of data collection. Participants were taught postgraduate students in a higher education institution education faculty in the United Arab Emirates. The findings are relevant for our understanding of online group work; assessment design; communication; and community building. Research took place over a 12-month period, beginning before COVID-19, in February 2020 with face to face teaching, and ending during the third term of fully online teaching in January 2021. This phenomenological research charts student perception and attitude changes. Social Cognitive Theory, the Technology Acceptance Model and Social Constructivism form the theoretical framework within which participant engagement, behaviour and perception are explored. The findings provide a reflective analysis regarding student perception, engagement and acceptance of online group work as a valid approach to meeting learning outcomes.","PeriodicalId":47730,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Education","volume":"53 1","pages":"665 - 681"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49034491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nathan Rickey, Michelle M. Dubek, Christopher DeLuca
{"title":"Toward a Praxis-Oriented Understanding of Student Self-Assessment in STEAM Education: How Exemplary Educators Leverage Self-Assessment","authors":"Nathan Rickey, Michelle M. Dubek, Christopher DeLuca","doi":"10.1080/0305764X.2023.2196245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2196245","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While researchers have begun to develop theories of assessment to support integrated learning within Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) education, the role of student self-assessment (SSA) – a core aspect of classroom assessment – has been understudied. The purpose of this research was to develop an initial praxis-oriented understanding of how exemplary STEAM educators provoke SSA in integrated learning. Through an in-depth qualitative methodology drawing on interview and artefact data from 14 purposefully selected exemplary STEAM teachers, this study identified seven types of SSA activities: (a) self-documentation of learning; (b) reflection; (c) making metacognitive processes explicit; (d) prototype testing and revision; (e) goal setting; (f) self-testing; and (g) interactional SSA. Superimposed on the engineering design process, a process commonly leveraged to integrate disciplines in STEAM education, results provide a nuanced understanding of how exemplary STEAM educators leverage SSA, advancing assessment theory and practice in integrated education.","PeriodicalId":47730,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Education","volume":"53 1","pages":"605 - 625"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49504653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making sense of complex relationships in the workplace: principals in action","authors":"Michalis Constantinides","doi":"10.1080/0305764X.2023.2191930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2191930","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article presents findings of research focused on school improvement efforts in two secondary academy schools in England, examining how principals make sense of their role, their (inter)actions within their schools, and the complexities of their relationships with their rapidly changing environment. Sensemaking serves as a foundation for thinking about leadership and organisational change, providing a framework for understanding how disruptions of existing practice, uncertainty and ambiguity lead school principals to rethink and reorganise how they perceive their role within their organisational context. Based on semi-structured interviews and document analyses, this article identifies how problem-solving capacities, trusting relationships and professional collaboration with an array of stakeholders encourage adaptation of organisational activities and support openness to change. The study contributes to the growing body of knowledge on how school leaders think and act in their roles and on how the focus on relationships transform and interact with existing norms and values.","PeriodicalId":47730,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Education","volume":"53 1","pages":"587 - 603"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45890767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Korean adolescents’ profiles of digital citizenship and its relations to internet ethics: implications for critical digital citizenship education","authors":"Moonsun Choi, H. Park","doi":"10.1080/0305764X.2023.2191929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2191929","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study aims to identify adolescents’ profiles of digital citizenship based on the key elements of digital citizenship and to examine the relationship between the identified profiles and Internet ethics. Survey data were collected from 455 middle and high school students in South Korea and analysed with a latent profile analysis. Results revealed that there were three distinct digital citizenship profiles: communication-based; technically illiterate but politically active; and all-around digital citizens. Results of logistic regression analysis showed that gender, experience of digital citizenship education, frequency of posting on social media, Internet self-efficacy and Internet anxiety were significant factors predicting adolescents’ profiles of digital citizenship. The results also indicated that there were significant mean differences in Internet ethics across the profiles. This research will help to develop distinct strategies and differentiated digital citizenship education programmes. Educational implications including critical digital citizenship education are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47730,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Education","volume":"53 1","pages":"567 - 586"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44778292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards just futures: a capabilitarian approach to transforming undergraduate learning outcomes","authors":"M. Walker","doi":"10.1080/0305764X.2023.2189227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2189227","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Learning outcomes are predominantly framed in narrow and measurable terms, with students as decontextualised learners. As an alternative, the paper outlines a capabilitarian approach, building a four-dimensional matrix for reconceptualising learning outcomes. It is made up of a varied, multi-dimensional set of opportunities, processes and outcomes to enable students to flourish and become people who can live fulfilling and connected lives in and beyond higher education. The matrix dimensions are made up of a capability set, corresponding functionings, material resources and conversion processes, underpinned by Constitutional and human development values. The paper draws on a project on higher education outcomes in South Africa, especially the longitudinal life history data. It makes the case for a reparative futures orientation which might dismantle the colonial-apartheid past and present, and outlines key capabilitarian concepts. The social and higher education context is sketched, followed by a focus on the capability set and what data supports its value to students.","PeriodicalId":47730,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Education","volume":"53 1","pages":"533 - 550"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42930729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Schooling on the margins: the problems and possibilities of Montessori schools in Australia","authors":"Scott Eacott, Chanah Wainer","doi":"10.1080/0305764X.2023.2189228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2189228","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Often considered dumping grounds for those who cannot function in mainstream schools, alternative education providers are seen as outliers in the provision of schooling. With schools as relatively stable workplaces, alternative education provision makes for a rich laboratory to further our understanding of the causal impact of schooling on a range of outcomes. They are naturally occurring experiments in schooling through interventions in instruction, curriculum and student cohort. Montessori school-based education in Australia is one such case. Experiencing a 31% growth in enrolments since 2009, they offer useful insights for different measures of education. A pre-requisite to such insights is a situational analysis of current provision. Drawing on an interview-based study with 20 Montessori school leaders, this investigation identified three problems and possibilities for schools working on the margins: i) clarity about what is their distinctive form of education; ii) building the collective; and iii) evidencing quality of provision.","PeriodicalId":47730,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Education","volume":"53 1","pages":"551 - 566"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47623917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I have survived and become more confident’: effects of in-service TKT-based training on primary school English teachers’ professional beliefs and self-efficacy","authors":"Xiaojing Wang, F. Fang, T. Elyas","doi":"10.1080/0305764X.2023.2186373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2186373","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Promoting professional development of in-service language teachers is key to maintaining education quality. However, extant studies on test-based continuing professional development (CPD) for teachers do not emphasise primary school contexts in China, leading to difficulties in the professional development of this teacher group. Therefore, this paper reports the influences of CPD, based on the Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT) programme for in-service primary school English teachers in China, particularly concerning dynamic changes in their professional beliefs and self-efficacy due to participation in the programme. In this study, 42 English teachers were recruited from 15 primary schools to participate in the CPD programme. Through focus groups and teachers’ journals, the findings showed that the teachers experienced complex transformations in their professional beliefs and self-efficacy, and revealed some influential factors of the change. This paper provides suggestions to optimise CPD programmes and facilitate long-term professional development for teachers.","PeriodicalId":47730,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Education","volume":"53 1","pages":"511 - 532"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47774605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The mentor–tutor partnership in Turkish special education initial teacher training: an exploration of collaboration and agency","authors":"Oguzhan Hazir, Richard Harris, Tim Williams","doi":"10.1080/0305764X.2022.2086216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2022.2086216","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores the perspectives of the tutors and mentors involved in Turkish special education departments` initial teacher training, and how their understanding of and degree of agency shapes the nature of the partnership in it. The data collected from four partnership settings identified three sub-themes: expertise; experience; and expectations. The collective understanding within the teacher training environments shaped the behaviour of individuals. However, rather than working in collaboration with schools, the dominant role in the partnership is either taken by the tutors, and the mentor is largely ignored, or tutors leave the dominant role to the mentors and participate in the system superficially. Exploring the collaboration in Turkish teacher training programmes seems to be an important area to improve the overall quality of teacher training. Looking at ways in which mentors and tutors exert agency offers an opportunity to strengthen levels of collaboration.","PeriodicalId":47730,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Education","volume":"53 1","pages":"135 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46189580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Students’ self-regulated learning strategies and science achievement: exploring the moderating effect of learners’ emotional skills","authors":"Cheyeon Ha","doi":"10.1080/0305764X.2023.2175787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2175787","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study aims to underline the importance of school-based social-emotional learning (SEL) by exploring the relationship between self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies and science achievement with a moderator of students’ emotional skills. In previous studies, SEL scholars have paid attention to explaining the complicated relationships among the social, emotional, and cognitive development of school-aged children. Based on the SEL framework, this study investigated the moderating effect of emotional skills on students’ SRL strategies and science achievement with 79 sixth-grade students in South Korea. Students’ emotional regulation was a significant moderator of all the subfactors in SRL and science performance. Notably, motivational beliefs in SRL strategies are linked to higher science achievement. The findings support the idea of a SEL approach that posits that social and emotional variables are related to students’ science achievement, which invites the consideration of how these emotional skills can assist students to become better prepared learners.","PeriodicalId":47730,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Education","volume":"53 1","pages":"451 - 472"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43390125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing cognitive dissonance in art teacher education","authors":"Rebecca Heaton, Shannon Chan Lai Quan","doi":"10.1080/0305764X.2023.2175789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2175789","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper presents autoethnographic strategies to manage cognitive dissonance in art teacher education. Dissonance, as a conflict in beliefs and actions, is discussed in educational research but not commonly in art education. By exposing the autoethnographic voices of three academic artist teachers based in the United Kingdom and Singapore, including that of one author, this paper identifies the constitution and location of cognitive dissonance in art education. Autoethnographic images and excerpts help reveal personal accounts of cognition whilst positioning dissonance in practice. Contributors to dissonance like belief and concept conflicts, demonstrative challenges and power relationships are also exposed. This paper recommends that educational stakeholders, such as education ministries, teacher education departments and school leadership teams collaborate to acknowledge, accept and begin to manage dissonance in art teacher education.","PeriodicalId":47730,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Journal of Education","volume":"53 1","pages":"473 - 494"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47011089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}