Moray House School of Education : Recent submissions
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Moral profession of teaching: a case study investigating trainee teachers' public good capability formation and functioning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-11)The dominance of the discourses of globalisation and the neoliberal ideology of the free market have led to teachers being considered as central to ensuring the global competitiveness of a nation’s education service ... -
Centre for Research in Digital Education annual report 2022
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-12)The annual report of the Centre for Research in Digital Education, based with the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. -
Needs analysis and course design in Arabic for academic purposes at a Saudi Arabian university
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-03)This study aims to gain deep understanding of the needs of Non-Native Speakers of Arabic (NNSA) and the role of the current Arabic for Academic Purposes (AAP) programme in satisfying students’ needs in a Saudi Arabian ... -
What are the possibilities of women's empowerment in (feminist) Adult Learning spaces in Iran and Scotland?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-28)In this study I have explored the capacities of Adult Learning in Iran and Scotland to empower women. I have compared and contrasted the similarities and differences between the formations of Adult Learning in Iran ... -
Living journals: young children and digital media practices in Azerbaijani families
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-02)The aim of this qualitative study was to explore young children’s digital media practices at home in Azerbaijan. Five families, each including a five-year-old child, participated in multiple case studies over a period ... -
Victims, survivors and agentic experts: the linguistic performance of agentic identities by refugees in Scotland
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Applying performance psychology to specialist medical teams: facilitating change in the UK national organ retrieval service
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-23)Applying human performance science to medical contexts is important and widely recognised; however, prior to the current thesis, there had been no published research investigating the performance psychology of individuals ... -
Three-dimensional kinematics in backstroke swimming: reliability, isokinetic strength and asymmetries at sub-maximal and maximal paces
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-23)Research in front crawl (FC) swimming has revealed that: a) a change of pace affects stroke kinematics, b) asymmetries in some variables may affect performance and, c) the arms are estimated to contribute up to 85% of the ... -
Listening to children on the spectrum: exploring opportunities for meaningful interactions during research
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-28)Children on the autism spectrum face significant barriers to having their views listened to in research. They sometimes have diverse and idiosyncratic ways of expressing themselves, and may find the demands of face-to-face ... -
Evaluating the use of automated writing evaluation programs as tools for formative feedback in English as a Second Language postgraduate students
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-20)Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) programs use natural language processing techniques to analyse texts and score them according to pre-defined parameters. Most of these programs also offer feedback functions, providing ... -
Participation and inclusion in extracurricular physical activities: an ethnographic study alongside children with disabilities
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-16)The aim of this thesis is to explore how children with disabilities experience their participation in extracurricular physical activities. The thesis closes a gap in literature by contributing an in-depth year-long ... -
Moving messages: building the evidence base on physical activity messaging to inform research and policy, and improve practice
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-09)Physical activity (PA) is a leading cause of non-communicable disease, and global PA trends are not improving. To address this, a systems approach has been advocated. Such an approach acknowledges that, alongside changes ... -
Exploring Chinese higher vocational college teachers' perceptions of critical reading and teaching critical reading in English
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-06)This thesis reports on an exploration of Chinese higher vocational college teachers’ perceptions of critical reading and teaching critical reading in English. Previous studies have suggested that language teachers’ ... -
Investigation of Chinese academics' language attitudes towards English language norms in UK universities
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-10)English is now used as a global lingua franca as a result of the internationalisation of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the UK. Given that people’s views on a person, such as his/er supposed capabilities, beliefs ... -
‘Troubling’ music education: playing, (re-)making and researching differently
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Traditional theorising around music teacher education has focused largely on dichotomies between theory and practice. The dominant stories of teaching, knowing and researching which underpin this theorising arise from ... -
Culture and the ESL classroom in relation to learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) at a public university in Malaysia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This study investigates the influence of culture on WTC in ESL (English as a Second Language) classrooms in a public university in Malaysia. In the literature, culture in language teaching is generally treated as ... -
Foster carer recruitment
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-31)This thesis presents the pursuit of a better experience of permanence and stability for children in foster care. In this case, permanence and stability is not about legal permanence but about relational and geographical ... -
Identity, space, place and power: an ethnographic study of a community garden
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-23)This ethnographic inquiry examined the lived experiences of the Granton Community Gardeners. I explored how their social and nonhuman interactions influence the community garden volunteers by developing two sub-questions ... -
‘To talk or not to talk?': Investigating the complex dynamic emergence of willingness to communicate in a Chinese as a foreign language classroom
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-21)My thesis sets out to investigate Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in Chinese, its mediating factors and their interrelationships embedded in the learner and the classroom context. It adopts a longitudinal qualitative ... -
Achieving positive physical activity behaviour change among women: does the couch to five k have a contribution to make?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-17)Despite evidence supporting the wide-ranging benefits of regular physical activity, participation among women could be better. In addition to existing formal interventions, a number of current less formal recreational ...
