Learning Journal Volume 16, Number 4 available

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

Volume 16, Number 4 contains:

• Training Tomorrow’s Teacher: The Kenyan Government’s Efforts to Respond to Pre-Service Teacher Training Demands of Secondary School Teachers by Eunice Sanya Pelini.
• Can Business Principles be Adapted to Higher Education to Improve the Provision of Study Support to Diverse Student Cohorts? by Anna Brunken and Pamela Delly.
• The Effects of Different Modes of Representation in Statistical Problems Solving: A Study with Third Grade Primary School Pupils by Sofia D. Anastasiadou.
• Pedagogic Practices and Vocational Education and Training: A Study of Growing Small Firms by Janice T. Jones.
• Enhancing Motivation in a Learning Organization: Using Balanced Scorecard by Swati Suhaemi Kurnia.
• An English for Special Purposes Needs Analysis on University Business Management Students by Hui-Chuan Liao.
• The Preparation of Students for a Global Career: An Innovative Study Tour Program that provides an Equitable and Inclusive Learning Experience for Students that Advances the Development of their ‘Global Passport’ by Amalia Di Iorio, Paul Cerotti and Joan Richardson.
• Learning and Teaching in Culturally Diverse Classrooms: A Case Study Exploring Teachers’ and Students’ Perceptions by Franco Vaccarino.
• Mentoring Preservice Teachers in Primary Mathematics by Peter Hudson.
• An Investigation of the Framework of Relations among Language, Music, and the Advertised Product in Television Commercials by Maria Kokkidou and Eleni Tsakiridou.
• The Long Struggle toward Botany Education from a Largely Female Perspective by Marlene M. Hurley.
• Moulding Self Esteem in Nigerian University Undergraduates by Augustina Duyilemi and Christopher O. Omoregie.
• The Use of Fuzzy Transformational Qualifiers in the Organization of Distributed Adaptive Learning by Alexander Vengerov.
• From Globalisation to Internationalisation: Stepping Back to Move Forwards in Progressing Higher Education in Overseas Markets by Eddie Blass.
• Self-efficacy and Metacognitive Development by Kevin J. Downing.
• Self-Efficacy Beliefs of At-Risk Students in Malaysian Secondary Schools by Habibah Elias, Rahil Mahyuddin, Nooreen Noordin, Maria Chong Abdullah and Samsilah Roslan.
• Collective Learning: Applying Distributed Cognition for Collective Intelligence by Jose A. Fadul.
• The Management of Student Self- and-Peer Evaluation in University Group-Work: A Theoretical Analysis of Contemporary Literature Sources by Carmine Sellitto.
• Defining the Standards for Higher Education by Muhammad Azeem, Muhammad Bashir Gondal, Khalid Abida, Naz Farah, Ashiq Hussain and Akhtar Munira.
• The Emergence of New Technology in Malaysian Smart Schools: Views of Islamic Education Teachers and Students by Isa Hamzah, Amirah Ismail, Ab. Halim Tamuri, Mohamed Amin Embi and Aqsha Lubis Maimun.
• Configuring Networked Learning through Kelly’s Constructive Alternativism by Judith Enriquez.
• Connecting Modern Medicine with Medieval Humanism: Watching Cristi Puiu’s “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” through the Lens of Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy” by Robert J. Bonk.
• Academics Writing and Learning Together: Using Writing Groups to Promote Scholarship of Teaching by Zelma Bone, Cathi McMullen and Deborah Clarke.
• Teaching Multimodality in Greek Elementary School Language Arts by Anna Fterniati.
• Learning and Justification during a Science Teaching Sequence by Michael Skoumios and Vassilia Hatzinikita.
• Harnessing the Potentials of Stakeholders in the Development of Nigeria’s Education System by Olu. Adesola Famade.
• Building Mentoring Capacities in Experienced Teachers by Denise Beutel and Rebecca Spooner-Lane.
• Problems and Stress among Students in an International Campus by Yoong Hon Lee.
• Investigating the Relationship between Media Literacy Levels, Perceptions of Democracy and Authoritarian Personality Traits of College Students by Akan Deniz Yazgan and Remzi Y. Kincal.
• A Ten-Year Faculty Mentoring Program: Administrator, Mentor, and Mentee Perspectives by Linda P. Thurston, Lori Navarrete and Teresa Miller.
• Investigating the Relationship between Formal Operational Thinking Skills and Science Achievement of 7th and 8th Grade Primary School Students by Akan Deniz Yazgan and Remzi Y. Kincal.
• Employability in the Bologna Process: An Area of Tension between Society, Businesses and Students by Claudia Wiepcke.
• Managing Change in Higher Education: An Exploration of the Role of Training in ICT Enabled Institutions in the United Arab Emirates by Kasim Randeree and Anjli Narwani.
• They Passed with Flying Colours, but why are they Failing Now? by Sharifah Md Nor and Muhammad Nordin.
• Gender Issues in Professional Continuing Education Programmes in Nigeria by Janet Olajumoke Odeyemi.
• Description, Definition, Denomination and Explanation: The Bases of the Knowledge Process by Piero Mella.
• Measuring Emotions in a Distance-learning Environment: Increasing Opportunities to Monitor and Safeguard the Affect of School Counselors-in-Training by Suzanne Mudge, Cullen Grinnan, Ray Wooten and Richard Priesmeyer.
• Shifting Teachers’ Practices: How Literacy can be a Focus for Altering Pedagogical Practices by Noeline Wright.
• Does High School Mathematics Improve Student Learning in Economics in the University? by Girijasankar Mallik and Parikshit K Basu.
• Modifying Student Evaluations of Teaching to Improve Practice: A Report on a Project Carried Out in a Regional Institute of Technology by Owen Wade Giles.