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Experimenting with academic subjectivity: collective writing, peer production and collective intelligence Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2019-01-28 Michael A. Peters, Tina Besley, Sonja Arndt
ABSTRACT Following involvement in several academic collectively written articles, the authors question traditional notions of the ‘lone’ individualist author model as the expected standard in the humanities as opposed to large research teams in physical sciences. They use Barthes and Foucault to question the function and the concept of the author and assumed notions of subjectivity. Recent collective
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What’s In a game? A game-based approach to exploring 21st-century European identity and values Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2019-01-11 Murray Leith, Liz Boyle, Duncan Sim, Arno van der Zwet, Graham Scott, Athanassios Jimoyiannis, Petar Jandrić, Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Nadera Sultana Tany, Hans Hummel
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the early stages of an international project on gamifying national identity. It examines the production of the content required for developing a sophisticated and engaging approach to pedagogical innovation in education, through game-based learning. This will encourage individuals to think about both European and national identity, specifically within the context of
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How to integrate addiction medicine in psychiatry training: results of an experiment with two educational methods Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Darius Jokubonis, Virginija Adomaitiene, Aiste Leleikiene, Laura Baltaityte, Edgaras Dirzius, Cornelis Aj De Jong
ABSTRACT The high rates of comorbidity with substance use disorders in general psychiatry patients demand enhanced competences from psychiatry residents in addiction medicine. The aim of this article is to improve knowledge, skills and attitudes in psychiatric residents in treating patients with comorbid substance-related disorders (SUD). Four seminars with all residents on relevant and actual knowledge
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When can academic researchers rest? An event history analysis on researchers’ research productivity and promotion in academia from 1980 to 2016 in Japan Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Ayano Fujiwara
ABSTRACT This study analyzed the factors required for a researcher to become a professor in the humanities and sociology, science and engineering, medicine and biology, and general studies fields. The study focuses on research productivity and analyzes the impact of hiatuses in research production on promotion in universities as well as the time at which such hiatuses have the least impact on promotions
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Critical dialogues for learning and technology: in, against and beyond the neoliberal university Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Gordon Asher
Dialogue is the encounter between men [beings], mediated by the world, in order to name the world. (Freire, 1972, p. 88) We live in the epoch of digital reason, which has significantly altered the traditional order of things. In our epoch, yesterday’s institutions will either become slaves to corporate capitalism, or they will significantly transform in order to maintain an active role in the co-creation
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The velvet cage of educational con(pro)sumption Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2018-01-01 George Ritzer, Petar Jandrić, Sarah Hayes
ABSTRACT In the year that George Ritzer publishes the ninth edition of The McDonaldization of Society, moving his famous theory firmly Into the Digital Age, critical educator Petar Jandrić and sociologist Sarah Hayes invited George to a dialogue on the digital transformation of McDonaldization and its critical application to Higher Education. In this article, George first traces for us the origins
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Postdigital openness Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Petar Jandrić
In 2014 President Obama promised to open a US embassy in Havana. Leaked private emails between Hollywood actors about the film which depicts the assassination of Kim Jong Un forced media giant Sony to apologise for promoting terrorism. Robotic lander the Philae was the first human artefact which landed on the comet. Steven Hawking warned that Artificial Intelligence could end human life on Earth. Worldwide
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Ten theses on the the shift from (static) text to (moving) image Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Michael A. Peters, E. Jayne White, Elizabeth Grierson, Georgina Stewart, Nesta Devine, Janita Craw, Andrew Gibbons, Petar Jandrić, Rene Novak, Richard Heraud, K. Locke
To cite this article: Michael A. Peters, E. Jayne White, Elizabeth Grierson, Georgina Stewart, Georgina Stewart, Nesta Devine, Janita Craw, Andrew Gibbons, Petar Jandrić, Michael A. Peters, Rene Novak, E. Jayne White, Richard Heraud & K. Locke (2018) Ten theses on the the shift from (static) text to (moving) image, Open Review of Educational Research, 5:1, 56-94, DOI: 10.1080/23265507.2018.1470768
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Is peer review in academic publishing still working? Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Liz Jackson, Michael A. Peters, Leon Benade, Nesta Devine, Sonja Arndt, Daniella Forster, Andrew Gibbons, Elizabeth Grierson, Petar Jandrić, George Lazaroiu, Kirsten Locke, Ramona Mihaila, Georgina Stewart, Marek Tesar, Peter Roberts, Jānis (John) Ozoliņš, Jānis (John) Ozoliņš
ABSTRACT Peer review is central to academic publishing. Yet for many it is a mysterious and contentious practice, which can cause distress for both reviewers, and those whose work is reviewed. This paper, produced by the Editors’ Collective, examines the past and future of peer review in academic publishing. The first sections consider how peer review has been defined and practised in changing academic
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Silent policymakers in Aotearoa New Zealand: reflections on research of early childhood teacher views on policy, practicum and partnership Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Andrew Gibbons, Marek Tesar, Sarah Steiner, Samantha Chan
ABSTRACT This paper reports on the importance of the stories and perspectives of early childhood education Associate Teachers (ATs) at a time when there is considerable flux being experienced in the Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood sector, due in particular to the ongoing impact of changes in government funding policy, ongoing debates about pathways into the teaching profession, and an updated
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DiY (Do-it-Yourself) pedagogy: a future-less orientation to education Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Andrew Gibbons, Emit Snake-Beings
ABSTRACT A future-less orientation, as defined in this article, explores approaches to education within the context of precarious, shifting, labour markets and the uncertain future of employment trends. A future-less orientation questions the validity of traditional views of education: as a means of preparing students for an imagined future career; one which may never happen. DiY (Do-it-Yourself) culture
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Curriculum, text and forms of textuality Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Michael A. Peters, Petar Jandrić
ABSTRACT Building on Peters’ and Jandrić's previous work on curriculum as ‘text’ and ‘discourse’ (Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2018b). The curious relationships between discourse, genre and curriculum. Open Review of Educational Research, 5(1).), this article seeks to refresh and extend the central metaphor of ‘curriculum as text’ that is adopted as the organizing metaphor of William Pinar’s 2006
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Discourse, genre and curriculum Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Michael A. Peters, Petar Jandrić
ABSTRACT This paper explores the central metaphors of curriculum as ‘text’ and ‘discourse’ that are adopted as the organizing metaphors for William Pinar’s 2006 book Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to the Study of Historical and Contemporary Curriculum Discourses. Using the works of Michel Foucault, the paper explores relationships between discourse and curriculum as procedures of exclusion
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The doctoral writing conversation: establishing a generic doctoral writing programme Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-12-26 E. Marcia Johnson
ABSTRACT Over the past few decades, the number of people enrolled in doctoral study has increased dramatically across the world. In practical terms, this has meant that universities now receive increasingly diverse students with regard to ethnicity, age, language, culture, and background preparedness for higher degree study. Students can, and often do, begin their doctorates with scant understanding
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Love, attention and teaching: Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-11-21 Peter Roberts
ABSTRACT Fyodor Dostoevsky's final novel, The Brothers Karamazov, is one of the most influential works of the nineteenth century. To date, however, the potential value of the book for educationists has been largely ignored. This article addresses a key pedagogical theme in The Brothers Karamazov, namely, the notion that ‘love is a teacher’. Love as Dostoevsky understands it is active and difficult;
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Qatar’s educational reform past and future: challenges in teacher development Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Ramzi Nasser
ABSTRACT Until the late 1990s, Qatar’s educational system used the intrinsic-nationalistic and cultural traditions of Arabic schools. The Qatari leadership and stakeholder was outdated; hence, they approached the RAND Corporation to examine and analyze the existing educational system and recommend options for building a new educational system. The RAND assessment study concluded that the country’s
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The use of ICT by second-year college students and its relation with their interaction and sense of belonging Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Nasser Mohamedhoesein
ABSTRACT This study examines the use of technology for interaction by second-year college students in The Netherlands and its relationship with their integration and sense of belonging. The concepts of student integration and sense of belonging, as used in previous studies in The Netherlands, link student's persistence to their social interactions. Our findings reveal that technology use for interactions
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Teacher personality: a review of psychological research and guidelines for a more comprehensive theory in educational psychology Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Lajos Göncz
ABSTRACT The current review aims to demonstrate that findings from personality theories can help educational psychology craft a more thorough explanation of the role of teacher personality in the educational process. This topic seemed to have been inadvertently omitted. The following five groups of studies in psychology and related fields (classified based on their research objectives) are critically
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Contesting PLD services: the case of CORE Education Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-01-01 John O’Neill
ABSTRACT The article is derived from a larger study of charities, philanthropists, policy entrepreneurs and international businesses in state schooling in Aotearoa New Zealand. The article considers the formation of a private professional services provider, CORE Education, and its recent corporate trajectory following the government’s decision in 2009 to make all School Support Services provision contestable
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Antipodean theory for educational research Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Georgina Stewart, Sonja Arndt, Tina Besley, Nesta Devine, Daniella J. Forster, Andrew Gibbons, Elizabeth Grierson, Liz Jackson, Petar Jandrić, Kirsten Locke, Michael A. Peters, Marek Tesar
ABSTRACT This article results from a collaborative investigation into Antipodean theory in education by members of the Editors’ Collective (www.editorscollective.org.nz). The Prologue contains a brief personal account of the South Project (www.southernperspectives.net), as an example of the contemporary projects and activities falling under the banner of ‘Antipodean’ ways of working and thinking. The
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Dewey’s Democracy and Education in the age of digital reason: the global, ecological and digital turns Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Michael A. Peters, Petar Jandrić
ABSTRACT Dewey was perhaps the foremost theorist and advocate of participatory democracy as an ethical ideal based on a belief and faith in human experience as a general theory of education that would generate the requisite aims and methods for what he called ‘organized intelligence’ and what we might call today ‘collective intelligence’ – that is, as he says, ‘faith in democracy is all one with faith
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Some new ways of thinking about some old ways of reading: transactional aesthetics, literature and the agon Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Dustin Hellberg
ABSTRACT This article is meant as a useful classroom methodology by which teachers of literature may give their students a coherent rubric for understanding literary meaning and exegesis which can incorporate most literary theories while addressing the basic-to-advanced concepts required of literary students. Also, it will provide a working methodology for the inclusion of certain evolutionary aesthetic
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Allocation of playing time within team sports – a problem for discussion Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Torbjørn Lorentzen
ABSTRACT The background of the article is the recurrent discussion about allocation of playing time in team sports involving children and young athletes. The objective is to analyse why playing time is a topic for discussion among parents, coaches and athletes. The following question is addressed: Under which condition is it ‘fair’ to use equal and under which condition ‘fair’ to use unequal playing
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Lost in translation: western representations of Māori knowledge Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Carl Mika, Georgina Stewart
ABSTRACT We recently attended a conference at which a non-Māori presenter, drawing on a particular metaphor already established by Māori writers, related Māori natural world features to a research method. The presentation was useful because it highlighted several issues that call for our concern as Māori philosophers. In this article, we outline these concerns, which are: first, that a blunt response
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Definitions and models of statistical literacy: a literature review Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Sashi Sharma
ABSTRACT Despite statistical literacy being relatively new in statistics education research, it needs special attention as attempts are being made to enhance the teaching, learning and assessing of this sub-strand. It is important that teachers and researchers are aware of the challenges of teaching this literacy. In this article, the growing importance of statistics in today’s information world and
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Be(com)ing a reflexive researcher: a developmental approach to research methodology Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Mariam Attia, Julian Edge
ABSTRACT Our purpose in this article is to achieve a shift of focus away from a view of research methods as objectified procedures to be learnt by researchers, and towards the development of researchers who craft procedures integral to the environments in which they operate – environments of which they are also a functioning constituent. A key element in such a perspective is the conceptualisation
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Advice for writing a thesis (based on what examiners do) Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Clinton Golding
ABSTRACT In the article, ‘What examiners do: What thesis students should know’, we identified 11 things that thesis examiners do as they read and judge a thesis. But, we left a gap in the research: knowing this, What should thesis students do to write for their examiners? In this article, I fill the gap. The advice for thesis students is: first, treat your examiners as friends who want you to pass
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Sell, sell, sell or learn, learn, learn? The EdTech market in New Zealand’s education system – privatisation by stealth? Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Noeline Wright, Michael Peters
ABSTRACT An article in The Atlantic ‘Quantifying the Ed-Tech Market’ (2015), which draws on a review by the Education Technology Industry Network, reports that the U.S. Ed-tech market totalled $8.38 billion in the 2012–2013 academic year, which is up from $7.9 billion the year before, and up 11.7 per cent from 2009. K-12 online course revenue including any digital curriculum increased some 320% and
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New knowledge for a new planet: critical pedagogy for the Anthropocene Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2016-01-01 McKenzie Wark, Petar Jandrić
Petar Jandrić (PJ): Ken, thank you a lot for this interview – and for your valuable advice regarding other interviews in this series. Upon completing my research on your rich bibliography, I could not help but wonder how it arrived into being. You are an academic researcher – but your book I’m very into you: Correspondence 1995—1996 (Acker & Wark, 2015) is a collection of emails. A hacker manifesto
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Occupational well-being and stress among early childhood professionals: the use of an innovative strategy to measure stress reactivity in the workplace Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2016-01-01 M. Nislin, N. Sajaniemi, M. Sims, E. Suhonen, E. F. Maldonado, S. Hyttinen, A. Hirvonen
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to examine early childhood professionals’ (ECPs) work engagement, burnout and stress regulation in integrated special day-care groups. The participants consisted of 89 ECPs from 21 integrated special day-care groups in Helsinki, Finland. ECPs’ work-related well-being was assessed using self-report questionnaires that measured work engagement and burnout. Stress regulation
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Affordances, barriers, and motivations: engagement in research activity by academics at the research-oriented university in Vietnam Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Quy Nguyen, Christopher Klopper, Calvin Smith
ABSTRACT The importance of academics undertaking research and publishing their research results is emphasised by universities. Engagement in research is recognised as an effective means to increase a university's profile. This study applied a qualitative approach to explore affordances, barriers, and motivations towards the engagement in research experienced by academics at one of the leading universities
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Gender differences in boys’ and girls’ perception of teaching and learning mathematics Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Marcus Samuelsson, Joakim Samuelsson
ABSTRACT Gender differences between boys and girls in the perception of the classroom setting, and their relationship to achievement in mathematics and aspects of self-regulated learning skills are the focus for this article. Throughout the component analysis of answers from 6758 Swedish students we found some differences in how boys and girls perceive their classroom setting and some differences in
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Transgressive learning in times of global systemic dysfunction: interview with Arjen Wals Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Michael A. Peters, Arjen E. J. Wals
Arjen Wals is Professor of Transformative Learning for Socio-Ecological Sustainability at Wageningen University. He also holds the UNESCO Chair of Social Learning and Sustainable Development. Furthermore he is the Carl Bennet Guest Professor in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at Gothenburg University in Sweden. He obtained his PhD in 1991 with a Fulbright fellowship at the University of
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Learner differences in theory and practice† Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope
ABSTRACT This paper explores the complex and shifting dimensions of the social, cultural and bodily differences that impact on learners and their learning. Our theoretical argument proceeds in five stages. First, we build a typology of terms used to classify demographic differences for the purposes of designing, implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of educational institutions and programs:
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Teachers’ reflective practice in the context of twenty-first century learning: applying Vagle’s five-component post-intentional plan for phenomenological research Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Leon Benade
ABSTRACT Vagle’s ‘post-intentional phenomenological research approach’ applies post-structural thinking to intentionality. I apply his five-component research process, reflect on some initial findings of semi-structured interview discussions with 25 participants, and consider a meta-reflection by some participants on those findings. My larger on-going qualitative research programme is framed by the
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Determinants of education quality: what makes students’ perception different? Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Husain Salilul Akareem, Syed Shahadat Hossain
ABSTRACT In recent decades, the commercialization of education has become more apparent and the need for using marketing tools is greater than before. This study aims to identify the demographic and background information of students that differentiate their perception about quality of higher education. A sample of 432 students was taken from five top private universities of Bangladesh to evaluate
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Happiness and depression in the traditionally bullied and cyberbullied 12-year-old Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Lotta Uusitalo-Malmivaara, Juhani E. Lehto
ABSTRACT This study investigated the overall happiness, school-related happiness, and depression of traditionally bullied and cyberbullied 12-year-old Finnish students. Among the more than 700 participants, traditional bullying (26%) was more frequent than cyberbullying (18%). Receiving insulting text messages or being the subject of offensive comments on the Internet were the most common forms of
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Leading school improvement: using Popper’s theory of learning Open Review of Educational Research Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Stephanie Chitpin
ABSTRACT Leadership is a highly complex activity, as leaders respond to increasing diversity and external accountability. Additionally, there is increased recognition that leadership is deeply contextual, sensitive to macro-politics of systems and micro-politics of individual schools. In Ontario, Canada, the school improvement effort is focused on raising student achievement and ensuring equitable