Moray House School of Education : Recent submissions
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Impact of educational robotics on interest towards technology careers and technology skills in Brazilian primary and secondary school students – a longitudinal case study approach
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-05)The study investigated the development of interest towards technology careers and the development of technology skills stemming from the participation in Educational Robotics (ER) approaches in the Brazilian education ... -
Primary school teacher’s responsibility to promote positive mental health
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-05)Rationale As teachers play such a fundamental role in a child’s wellbeing, this thesis explores what positive mental health means to individual primary school teachers and how they perceive their responsibility to promote ... -
Certain you’re not sure? An inquiry into pedagogical strategies for teaching children how to manage uncertain knowledge about sustainability challenges
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-05)The urgent and rapidly changing sustainability challenges facing society today require people to possess the competences necessary to deal with knowledge uncertainty. This inquiry examined teaching strategies for enhancing ... -
Tongshi education reform in Chinese research-intensive universities: a case study
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-05)Since the late 1990s, an educational reform movement has been initiated in many research-intensive universities of mainland China to change their Soviet-style undergraduate curriculum which is described as being ... -
Inclusive practice under a policy of integration: learning from the implementation of support assistant provision in South Korean schools
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-05)The study aims to identify the conditions that appears to be promoting or hindering inclusive practice in S. Korean primary schools. As a lens to give scope and focus, the study looks at the implementation of support ... -
Impact of workshops on seven EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices concerning L1 use in a Saudi Arabian university
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)This study addresses a gap in the literature illustrating the effect of workshops on teachers’ beliefs and practices about the use of L1 in Saudi Arabia. Responding to the growing interest in the pedagogy of foreign ... -
Phenomenological study of the relationship between a 10-day residential outdoor education experience and patterns of physical activity in adult life
(The University of Edinburgh, 2005-11-30)This dissertation investigates the meanings and values that a group of adults aged between 30 and 31 years attribute to a 10-day residential outdoor education experience that took place 17 years ago. The dissertation ... -
Practising immanence: (still) becoming an environmental education academic
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-03)This thesis is located between. It is not quite about outdoor environmental education. It is not quite about research methodology. And it is not quite about the author’s learning. These delineated categories exist on a ... -
Evaluation of global Englishes oriented features in a Chinese senior high school textbook
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017)English now is a global language used by speakers from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and non-native speakers outnumber native speakers. As a result, it has been argued that English language teaching should ... -
Education at the local level seen in the light of the 1972 report of the International Commission on the Development of Education
(The University of Edinburgh, 1974)(i) That individualised learning be adopted where this is feasible and that a combination of programming and counselling be adopted that facilitates learning under existing constraints and where possible initiates the ... -
Factors affecting the reliability of self-estimates in answering personality questionnaires
(The University of Edinburgh, 1948)Je noted a striking contrast between the reliability and validity of personality questionnaires; their reliability has been consistently reported to be fairly high, but their validity has been generally found to be poor. ... -
Some mental changes in the growth of children and their significance for education
(The University of Edinburgh, 1938)The present-day curricula in our schools appear to be the outcome of experience, - experience on the part of generations of teachers as to the particular subjects, and level of subject, which children at any given age ... -
Philosophy, execution and efficacy of the guidance system as seen through Edinburgh schools
(The University of Edinburgh, 1976)In this paper I wish to discuss the Scottish Guidance System: its birth and early development, its theory and its practice as seen through a sample of Edinburgh Secondary Schools and comment on its possible future. -
Some aspects of rural adult education with special reference to East Lothian
(The University of Edinburgh, 1974)The period covered by this paper, from the early eighteenth to the opening of the twentieth century, was one of remarkable progress and development for Scotland's agriculture generally. From a deplorably backward ... -
'Raising achievement' in secondary schools: a study of outdoor experiential learning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2004)In 1997 the Education Department of North Lanarkshire Council launched a multi-faceted Raising Achievement initiative aimed at increasing the potential of all primary and secondary school students. This programme, one ... -
Scottish experiments in rural education from the eighteenth century to the present day, with special reference to rural arts and crafts
(The University of Edinburgh, 1931)The history of rural education in Scotland has been marked by gradual developments towards a social ideal. The experiments which have been attempted in the Scottish rural school during a period of nearly two hundred ... -
Helping the man in the middle: assessing and training referee performance
(The University of Edinburgh, 2005)This thesis describes an applied programme of research with the English Rugby Football Union (RFU) national panel of referees. Referee performance can have a critical impact on the outcomes of games and as a consequence ... -
Investigation of the causes of backwardness at the qualifying stage, with particular reference to the percentage of children scholastically retarded owing to unsuitability of curriculum. Non-scholastic tests - mechanical aptitude tests, technical information tests and a practical test - for "backward” pupils
(The University of Edinburgh, 1928)Although the utmost care was taken}in discovering the various causes of retardation for the 400 subjects, the 25.5% of cases suffering from unsuitability of curriculum and the 5.75% of cases, the cause of whose retardation ... -
A comparison of programmed learning with conventional lecturing in the teaching of spectroscopy and ionic equilibria to undergraduates
(The University of Edinburgh, 1974)An investigation, comparing the effectiveness of formal lecturing with programmed learning, in the teaching of first year undergraduates reading chemistry is described. -
Nurse education: an experiment in integration of theory and practice in nursing
(The University of Edinburgh, 1980)An experiment in integration of theory and practice in nursing is described. It took place within the apprenticeship programme of general nurse education and training in Scotland, 1978/79j and was evaluated by student ...
