The first issue of Volume 16 of The International Journal of Learning has now been published.

Volume 16, Number 1 contains:

Articles:

• Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions of their Middle Schooling Teacher Preparation by Suzanne Hudson.
• Investigating Critical Thinking Skills Practices in Qatari Elementary Schools by Yassir Semmar and Aisha Fakhro.
• Education as Initiation to a “Form of Life”: Conceptual Investigation and Education Theory by Zacharoula Renia Gasparatou.
• A Case Study of the use of Short Stories in a Junior Secondary ESL Classroom in Hong Kong by Chi Cheung Ruby Yang.
• A Qualitative Study of Poor and Good Bilingual Readers’ Strategy Use in EFL Reading by Eleni Griva, Anastasia Alevriadou and Athina Geladari.
• Dispositions for Special Educators: Cultivating High-Quality Traits for Working with Students with Special Needs by Barbara S. S. Hong, W. Fred Ivy and Don P. Schulte.
• Nurses as Facilitator(s) of Web Based Delivery of Health Education: Weight Management by Irene Heetebry and Myron Hatcher.
• An Experimental Study of Self-Regulated Learning with Gifted Learners by Prakash Singh.

• The Impact of Cooperating Teachers on the Teaching Perspectives of Student Teachers by Derek Anderson.
• Teaching and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: A School Case Study by Moses Orwe Onyango.
• Teaching Engineering Concepts by Interactive-Animated Learning Objects by Francisco Ramos.
• ‘Border Crossing’ of History Education in Multicultural School Contexts in Greece: An Intercultural Approach by Fokion Georgiadis and Zisimos Apostolos.
• Composition Theory in Practice: Piloting a Mixed Mode Writing Clinic at the Durban University of Technology by Dee Pratt.
• Learning Centered Innovation in Management Education: Kolb’s ELT by Shubhra Prateek Gaur, Gaurav Kohli and Kriti Khanna.
• Adult L2 Learning of Victorian Novels Using Literature Circles by Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya and Normaliza Abd Rahim.
• Notes on Math Anxiety Among Students: Cause-and-Effect, Pro-and-Con by Gohar Marikyan.
• The ‘Class/Teacher’ Effects Distortion: A Critique of Purely Positivist Teacher Effectiveness Research and Inquiry by Andrew Skourdoumbis.
• Reading, Schooling, and Future Time Perspective: A Small-Scale Study of Five Academically Successful Young Swedes by Ulla Damber.
• Emotional Intelligence and Anxiety; Emotional Intelligence and Resiliency by Bridget Connor and Sharon Slear.
• Impact of Teacher Dispositions on Student Self-determination by Barbara S. S. Hong and Peter Shull.
• Imagination Methods and Effective Language Communication: Applications of Enter-Educate Approach to Health Communication Programmes in Nigeria by Sunday Adejimola Amuseghan.
• Students’ Learning by Means of Spreadsheet Simulations: The Case of Probability by Wajeeh Daher.
• Constructions of Strategies Toward Success in English Literacy in Children by Dual-Language Families: A Qualitative Research Proposal by Genevieve Tran and Julian Scott Yeomans.
• Protocols for Quality: Transnational Educational Delivery by David Pyvis.
• Teaching and Learning in Australian University Transnational Education by Anne Chapman.
• Improvisation and Emotional Learning: Yes, and… by Steven A. Murphy and Catherine A. Hajnal.
• Moral Development, Moral Orientation and Personality Types by Bridget Connor.
• Practice Activities in Technological Schools: From the Perspective of Situated Learning in Communities of Practice by Susana López Espinoza.
• Teaching Social Sustainability: From Adjective to Verb by Melissa Nursey-Bray.
• Art for All: Teaching Art to the Hearing Impaired Child by Kwaku Frimpong Duku.
• Workin’ IT: Web 2.0 Technology and Work Integrated Learning by Michael Emslie.
• Transformative Learning for Pre-Service Teachers: When too much Art Education is Barely Enough! by Mark Selkrig and Christine Bottrell.
• The Use of Issue-Based Asynchronous Online Discussions to Supplement In-Class Discussions among Non-Native English Speaking Trainee Teachers by Brinda Oogarah-Pratap.
• Lines as Ideas and Structure Elements for Preschool Children’s Plastic Art Works by Apostolos Magouliotis.
• Lifelong Learning: Effective Adult Learning Strategies and Implementation for Working Professionals by Jonathan Hinton Westover.