This study critically explores how Bourdieu’s (1985; 1989) concept of social space impacts on the experiences of medical and nursing students in the primary care setting when non-formal work based learning (WBL) is used as a model for interprofessional education (IPE) (Moore, 20…
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In the last decade entertainment-education has emerged as a key educational approach to promoting personal and social change amongst the general population in mass media contexts such as radio and television. Audiences of entertainment-education are commonly presented with educa…
This thesis aims to explore Year 11 pupils’ perceptions of nursing, the influences that affect these perceptions, and the way in which these reflect the discourses within and about the nursing profession. The objective of this research is to provide data which will contribute to…
Recent developments in European dental education are student-focused, concerned, for example, with competency-based and problem-based learning. The development of dental educators has so far received little consideration. This study aimed to agree curriculum content for developi…
The National Student Survey (NSS) reveals that in the UK Higher Education students are generally dissatisfied with course assessment and feedback processes. This thesis investigates and evaluates a range of assessment and feedback strategies used during Initial Teacher Training …
The focus of this thesis is \(resistance\) \(to\) \(peace\) \(education\) in the conflict-ridden island of Cyprus. Departing from the premise that education, and in particular antagonistic historical narratives immersed in demonised articulations of the Other, have obstructed th…
The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) and the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) stress the need for Malaysian engineering graduates to be able to integrate sustainable development knowledge, skills and values in their professional practice. The 2012 Engineering Accreditati…
This study aims to investigate the challenges of translating metaphors of the Quran. It examines English speakers' understanding of a number of Quran metaphors which are selected from three well known English versions of the Quran translations. In addition, the study highlights …
From the oil boom in the 1970s up to present, Saudi Arabia, a leading oil producing country in the Middle East, has been encountering a serious shortage of skilled and qualified Saudi labour force, especially the private sector. Both the Saudisation policy and the current Ninth …
Evidence from examination boards and successive governments’ research into gender show that examination success in RE and the numbers opting to take the subject at GCSE and ‘A’ level remain heavily skewed towards female learners. Drawing from poststructuralism and masculinities …
Since 2001 Muslim communities in Britain have largely been governed through the educational policy framing of integration and segregation. This Manichean bio-construct sees mono-cultural ethnic schools as problematic spaces, whilst integrated schools as the liberal ideal. By dra…
One of the devastating impacts of the Syrian war is displacing the largest number of refugees in recent time. There are over 3.6 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, almost half of them are children in the preschool or primary school stage. This research primarily intends to provi…
In the last decade, curriculum developers have stressed the important role that teachers play in translating educational reforms into classroom practice. In Libya, the English language curriculum reform of 2000, which reflects a learner-centred philosophy of language teaching an…
The main aim of this study was to gain a greater understanding of the peer coaching practices in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) amongst Arabic language secondary school teachers in Malaysia. The Malaysian Ministry of Education (MOE) made a commendable commitment to tra…
In 2014, a new national CLT-based English language curriculum was introduced in Iraq for the purpose of boosting English language teaching and learning in elementary and secondary schools. However, on the same year of introducing the curriculum, 2014, a group of Islamic extremis…
The field of education has witnessed many changes and reforms in policy as well as numerous Information and Communication Technology (ICT) operational initiatives attempting to improve the process of teaching and learning. The interest of schools' stakeholders in the potential a…
At the age when the environmental issues are forefront in the government policies in Pakistan, this research study documents to identify how sustainable development education is integrating into primary school education and in initial teacher education in Pakistan. Education for…
This study was designed to explore primary teachers’ perceptions of group work as a way of teaching English in public sector primary schools of Punjab. In particular, the study attempted to ascertain how primary teachers view group work, whether they think it may have benefits a…