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Mac Cumhaill, Clare; Wiseman, Rachael – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2022
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch and Philippa Foot all studied at Oxford University during the Second World War. One of their wartime tutors was Donald MacKinnon. This paper gives a broad overview of MacKinnon's philosophical outlook as it was developing at this time. Four talks from between 1938 and 1941--'And the Son of Man That…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Educational Philosophy, Social Justice, Ethics
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Joseph Osunde; Liz Bacon; Lachlan Mackinnon – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2023
Research has shown that e-learning games do not have the same level of appeal to girls, as they do to boys; particularly in the crucial 11-14 age group. In the United Kingdom, this is typically when they start to make subject choices that impact their future studies and careers. Given the shortage of females who choose computer science as a…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Electronic Learning, Gender Differences, Females
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MacKinnon, Teresa – Research-publishing.net, 2015
In the past 5 years, the Language Centre at the University of Warwick has designed and implemented a blended learning environment in order to meet two important challenges to our Institution-Wide Language Programme (IWLP) language teaching mission. These were to connect teachers and learners together online in order to better support progress…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Mackinnon, Alison; Allen, Kerri – History of Education, 1998
Describes the education provided to girls in the Meeting Schools that were eleven Quaker schools created by the Society of Friends in nineteenth-century England and also in private schools and home-based education. Addresses the relationship between education and the disproportionate representation of Quaker women in nineteenth-century social…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Quality
Cutts, Warren G., Ed. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
This bulletin is based upon a conference on beginning reading instruction which brought together professional leaders in the field of reading and related disciplines. Their purpose was to report on research and to review a variety of practices on primary reading. Keynoting the conference, one of America's foremost reading authorities gives a…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Preschool Children, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs