How can design education develop intercultural competencies for professional practice and global citizenship?
Conference Proceeding
Macdonald, I., & MacLeod, M. (2015)
How can design education develop intercultural competencies for professional practice and global citizenship?.
Within the field of graphic design many contemporary designers and educators seek to challenge global corporate homogenization and the exploitation of developing countries (Ra...
How can design students develop intercultural competencies using critical approaches to global consumerism?
Conference Proceeding
Macdonald, I. & MacLeod, M. (2015)
How can design students develop intercultural competencies using critical approaches to global consumerism?
Within the field of graphic design many contemporary designers and educators seek to challenge global corporate homogenization and the exploitation of developing countries (Ra...
Managing Scottish higher and further education: a comparison of (re)gendered organizations.
Journal Article
Thomson, E., & McTavish, D. (2007)
Managing Scottish higher and further education: a comparison of (re)gendered organizations. Public Management Review, 9(3), 421-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719030701425811
This article outlines the traditional gendered nature of further and higher education and how this has been challenged by long term developments. The focus on managerialism an...
Making portfolios work in practice
Journal Article
Scholes, J., Webb, C., Gray, M., Endacott, R., Miller, C., Jasper, M., & McMullan, M. (2004)
Making portfolios work in practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 46(6), 595-603. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2004.03050.x
Background. A portfolio captures learning from experience, enables an assessor to measure student learning, acts as a tool for reflective thinking, illustrates critical analyt...
Educational migration – students leaving a region to study elsewhere: the link to religion in Northern Ireland
Book Chapter
Hollywood, E., & McQuaid, R. W. (2007)
Educational migration – students leaving a region to study elsewhere: the link to religion in Northern Ireland. In C. Larsen, W. Mathejczyk, J. Kipper, & A. Schmid (Eds.), Monitoring of Regional Labour Markets in European States, 17-22. Rainer Hampp Verlag
This paper reviews data sources concerning the key patterns and drivers of educational migration and non-return in Northern Ireland (NI). In particular it considers the sourc...
Scotland university to use dogs when interviewing potential students.
Other
Fraser, M. & Manning, S. (2014)
Scotland university to use dogs when interviewing potential students
Mossuril - an international study project.
Digital Artefact
Macdonald, I. (2014)
Mossuril - an international study project
This study examines the student experience of a third sector graphic design project in an international context. Inspired by a Humanist and socially conscious perspective that...
Remediation of asyntactic sentence comprehension using a multimedia microworld.
Journal Article
Beveridge, M. A., & Crerar, A. (2002)
Remediation of asyntactic sentence comprehension using a multimedia microworld. Brain and Language, 82, 243-295. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0093-934X%2802%2900015-9
We report the evaluation of a new automated protocol for the treatment of asyntactic comprehension. This is a follow-up study to the “Microworld for Aphasia” work of Crerar, E...
Assessing problem‐based learning with practice portfolios: one innovation too many?
Journal Article
Oberski *, I. M., Matthews‐Smith, G., Gray, M., & Carter, D. E. (2004)
Assessing problem‐based learning with practice portfolios: one innovation too many?. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 41(2), 207-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/1470329042000208710
This paper presents and discusses the evaluation of a module on the care for older people in the community, designed through an analysis of educational needs in the local nurs...
Adoption of information and communication technologies for educational purposes in Malawian Secondary Schools
Thesis
Ziba, A. S. K. Adoption of information and communication technologies for educational purposes in Malawian Secondary Schools. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3798
The adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) has often been motivated by ideas of bridging the digital divide and prom...