Learning Journal Volume 16, Number 8 available

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

Volume 16, Number 8 contains:

• A Sample Implementation on Teacher Candidates’ Pre-Service Learning by Pinar Girmen.
• Reflective Learning through Social Network Sites in Design Education by Ji Yong Park and Lazaros Kastanis.
• Views on the Use of Knowledge Forum: Hong Kong Primary Students’ Perspectives by Sally Wai-Yan Wan and Patrick Hak-Chung Lam.
• Look Before You Leap: Testing Some Assumptions on Visual Literacy and Predominant Learning Modalities of Undergraduate Design Students in Australia and New Zealand by Arianne Jennifer Rourke and Zena O’Connor.
• Why do Professors Refuse to use Constructivist Teaching Methodologies? by Kyungmee Lee, Junghwa Yoo and Yeongmahn You.
• Engaging with Learners: Learners’ Influence on the Use of Technology to Personalise Learning by Carol Robinson.
• Thinking and Learning on the Emotional Frontier by Lesley Caust.
• Borderless Supervision in Higher Degree Research: Consolidating International Pedagogies and Web-Conferencing Technologies by Meeri Hellstén and Matt Bower.

• Introduction and Development of a Blog-Based Teaching Portfolio: A Case Study in a Pre-Service Teacher Education Programme by Eunice Tang.
• Movement and Emotions in Higher Education by Ofra Walter and Meirav Hen.
• Development of a Problem Solving Scale for Children Attending Class 1-5 of Primary Education and Norm Study for Turkey by Esra Omeroglu, Sener Buyukozturk, Yasemin Aydogan and Arzu Ozyurek.
• Internships As a Beneficial External Learning Environment: A Survey and Case Study of Accounting Interns and Employers by Lara Kessler, Dori Danko and Rita Grant.
• Exhuming the Community, Undressing the Ritual by Kenneth DiMaggio.
• Primary Performance Assessment: Insights from Strategic Prompting by Barbara Marinak, Linda B. Gambrell and Susan A. Mazzoni.
• Peace Education in Multicultural Schools: An Action Research Approach by Lyn Snodgrass.
• Teaching Controversial Issues Using Museums: Experiences and Case Studies from The Manchester Museum, United Kingdom by Cat Lumb and Louise Sutherland.
• Perception and Prevention of HIV/AIDS among Undergraduate Students in Southwestern Nigeria by Bonke Adepeju Omoteso
• An Analysis of Curricula of ICT Study Programs by Izidor Golob and Tomaz Pisanski.
• The Big Books: Understanding the Contents or Illustrations? by Normaliza Abd Rahim, Noraien Mansor, Sabariah Md Rashid, Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, Vijayaletchumy Subramaniam and Siti Nur Aliaa Roslan.
• Towards a New Paradigm of Education in the 21st Century Society by Mirela Muresan and Janina Flueras.
• Preservice Teachers Collaborating with Families to Foster Global Literacy Connections by Nancy A. Chicola and Maria Ceprano.
• Inclusive Education: Innovation or Merely the Reproduction of Hegemonic Ideology? by Julia Rafal.
• The Influence of Counseling Self-Efficacy towards Trainee Counselor Performance by Wan Marzuki Wan Jaafar, Othman Mohamed, Ab. Rahim Bakar and Rohani Ahmad Tarmizi.
• A Professional Development Initiative for Literacy in Guatemala by Miriam Pepper-Sanello and Adrienne Andi Sosin.
• Using Empowerment Practice for Teacher Training by Roxana Andreea Toma.
• Concept Mapping in the Online Learning Environment: A Proven Learning Tool is Transformed in a New Environment by Ian Baitz.
• Foreign Language Reading Anxiety: Proficiency and Gender by Hulya Ipek.
• The Global Classroom: An Opportunity for Empowerment or Exploitation? by William Pelech and Sharon Macpherson.
• Transformational Learning and e-portfolios: A Pedagogy for Improving Student Experience and Achievement by Andrea Raiker.
• The Implementation of Contemporary Children’s Literature Program (CCL) in Malaysian Primary Schools: Feedback from Stakeholders by Shireena Basree.
• Volunteer Teaching in Kenya: The Inspiring, Challenging and Foreign Experience of a Westerner by Amy Catherine Farndale Mujema.
• Learning about Respiration and Risks of Smoking Tobacco with the use of ICT in Greek Primary School by Konstantina Chatzimihou and Christina Solomonidou.
• International Scholars of the 21st Century: Comparative Visions from Teaching Floors in Finland and Australia by Meeri Hellstén and Sari Poikela.
• Academic Skills: The Key to Meaningful Learning in Higher Education-An Action Research by Anat Raviv.
• Futuristic Schools: “Little Red Dot” Strategies in a Globalised Economy by Siew Kheng Catherine Chua.
• Issues of Integration in European and Spanish Dance Curricula and in American Dance Curricula: Case Comparisons by Tricia Young, Jennifer Atkins, Nelida Mones i Mestre, Carmen Gimenez Morte and Paloma Torres.
• School-based Management Committees: The Nigerian Experience by Oluwatoyin Bolanle Akinola.
• School Leadership and Teachers’ Attitudes towards School Change: The Case of High Schools in Greece by Jasmin-Olga Sarafidou and Dimitrios I. Nikolaidis.
• The Demystification of Knowledge Acquisition: Skills Based Approach to Teaching Literature by Sandra María Benedet.
• Designing Meaningful Learning Environments for Teachers: The Relationship between Representational Modes and Thinking Patterns by Diane Salmon and Melissa Kelly.
• The Effect of Leadership Training for Vocational High School Students: Courses Based on David Hutchens’s Learning Fable Series by Farn-Shing Chen, Hui-Wen Chou and Ming-Chao Lee.
• Thinking Styles of Teacher Trainees in Four Teacher Training Institutes in Malaysia by May Leng Ho and Nooreiny Maarof.
• An Investigation into the Attitude of Winter-school Grade 12 Learners towards Afrikaans: Attitude Studies by Suzan Sophie Thembekwayo.
• An Evaluation of the Study Patterns and Predictors of Women Distant Learners in Oyo and Osun States, Nigeria by Taiwo Lanre Adepoju and Sydney Nwanakponna Osuji.
• Using Classroom Sound Field Technology to Enhance Learning by Joan Flagg-Williams, Rhonda L. Rubin and Catherine Aquino-Russell.
• Work-Integrated Learning in Maritime Archaeology: An Australian Approach by Mark Staniforth.
• The Factors Influencing Learner Achievement in Geography Mapwork at Grade 12 Level by Elbie Mwenesongole.
• Evaluation of the “Second Instructor Application” in Synchronous Discussions in an Online Course: A Case Study at Anadolu University, Turkey by Kiymet Selvi and Cigdem Suzan Cardak.
• Language Skills Assessment: Electronic Test Application with Second Language Learners by Sandra Andrade Figueiredo and Carlos Fernandes Silva.
• Changing How Science Students Think: An Inquiry Based Approach by Andrew Donald, Margi Bohm and Imogen Moore.
• Being There: Closing the Gap between Learners and Contextual Knowledge Using Near-World Scenarios by Edward Peter Errington.
• Teaching and Learning Italian Abroad: A Comparative Pilot Study of Italian-Canadian, Italian-Australian and Italian Adolescent Speech by Roberto Bergami and Biagio Aulino.
• ‘Unveiling’ Complex Identities: An Exploration into the Perspectives and Experiences of South-Asian Girls by Geeta Ludhra and Deborah Jones.
• Journeyman to Master: The Changing Shape of a PGCE Primary Course by Wendy Geens, Sharon James and Sean MacBlain.
• Warts and All: Integrating ICT in Teacher Training by Miriam Tanti and Wendy Moran.