A picture is worth a thousand words: The empowering potential of using photo-elicitation within research and teaching.....

This paper defines photo elicitation, traces its development and use within research, and explores its potential use within a teacher education classroom setting. The paper will argue that photo elicitation enhances the possibility of conventional research and reflection, particularly when researching across cultural and language boundaries. I will draw on the insights gained during a small-scale research project conducted using photo elicitation as one form of data collection while interviewing English Language Learners (ELLs), and the use of reflective photo elicitation within a teacher training classroom setting. This paper reasons that photo elicitation, when used as a basis for interviewing, teaching and reflection, can act as a powerful trigger for memories, and can evoke unexpected and varied topics of discussion within the research setting. The challenge is made to researchers and teachers within ELL fields to extend their use of photo elicitation as a means of gaining deeper insights into their ELLs

Picture Perfect: The potential of photographs in the tertiary classroom

This research aims to explore the practices and experiences of Tutors in an Institute of Technology (ITP) with regards to their use of photographs in their classrooms as a teaching and assessment tool. The research will have an exploratory purpose of enquiry, which seeks to discover new understanding and insights, generate ideas and hypotheses for the future. The research project currently being undertaken is a qualitative case study taking place over a two-year period. The study looks at ways in which a small group of Tutors within an Institute of Technology (ITP) in New Zealand are currently using photos within their classrooms, in order to gain an understanding of ways in which they are being currently used to promote teaching, learning and assessment further. As a result the outcome of the study aims to formulate some guidelines and suggestions surrounding future use to promote effective use of photos within the tertiary classroom, in order to stimulate greater understanding and learning

Educating for Inclusive, Caring Communities : What kind of education do clergy and ordinands require in order to include and care for people living with dementia and their carers and supporters?

Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank everybody who passed on and answered our calls for participants. This research has been generously supported by HammondCare, The Sir Halley Stewart Trust, and the Kirby Laing Foundation

Chronic nonpuerperal uterine inversion and necrosis: a case report

<p>Abstract</p> <p><b>Introduction</b></p> <p>Inversion of the non-pregnant uterus is rare.</p> <p><b>Case presentation</b></p> <p>A 56-year-old African American woman presented to our emergency center with complaints of a mass protruding from her vagina. She subsequently underwent vaginal myomectomy, abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Pathologic examination revealed a necrotic fibroid and endometrium. At the time of laparotomy an inverted uterus was diagnosed when a 3 cm dimple containing bilateral round ligaments, infundibulopelvic ligaments and bladder was observed.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Chronic nonpuerperal inversion of the uterus is rare. Infection should be suspected and appropriate broad spectrum antibiotics begun while planning surgery. An attempt at vaginal restoration and removal is difficult. Abdominal hysterectomy may be necessary taking care to locate the distal urinary collecting system.</p

Individual and Social Influences on Students’ Attitudes to Debt: a Cross-National Path Analysis Using Data from England and New Zealand

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This study examines the construction of debt attitudes among 439 first-year undergraduates in England and New Zealand. It works from a conceptual model that predicts that attitudes will be partly determined by a range of social factors, mediated through personality and ‘financial literacy’. Path analysis is used to explore this model. The proposed model was found to be basically sound, with some notable negative findings. Socio-economic status was found to have a negligible role in determining debt attitudes, while the role of financial literacy was limited to reducing the likelihood of seeing debt as useful for lifestyle expenditure. Debt anxiety was found to be higher among students with a general predisposition to anxiety and inversely related to viewing student debt as a form of educational investment. It is concluded that student debt attitudes are multidimensional and individualised, challenging simplistic ideas of debt aversion in earlier literature

A picture is worth a thousand words: Using photo-elicitation within research and teaching

As ESOL teachers, we are all well aware of the importance of using visuals when supporting our student’s learning. This is regarded as common practice. Scrivener (2011) suggests using pictures as a starting point for writing; Harmer (2007) comments that teachers have always used pictures and photographs to facilitate learning; Harper (2003) comments that, photography can produce useful data, which sheds light on our understanding of sociological factors. It is thought that photography can become a way of expressing some ideas, feelings or emotions that may be subtle or that the participant/learner may be too sensitive to express. Are we therefore using this tool to its full potential? In my recently completed research project, a group of international students was asked to take photographs of aspects of life that hindered or helped them during their study. It was through this project that I developed some unanticipated insights surrounding the effectiveness of photo-elicitation within research. The depth of information gained, highlighted how important visuals are both within the classroom and as a research tool. In this presentation I will discuss the usefulness of photo-elicitation in research surrounding ESOL learners and as a tool within the classroom. I will firstly share some of my experiences of using photo-elicitation during a recent research project into the expectations and experiences of international students at a tertiary institution. Secondly I will outline some current literature surrounding the use of photo-elicitation within research. This will be followed by a discussion/ suggestions regarding how this tool can be used within the ESOL classroom