6 research outputs found
PEP Insights Research: The Experience of Public Engagement Professionals during Covid-19
This report explores the impact of Covid-19 on PEPs and the engagement work of universities in order to inform future decision-making; to build effective support for PEPs; to raise awareness of specific issues relating to PE in the HE context; to support culture change; and to negotiate the future together
Case Study: Wellness, tourism and small business development in a UK coastal resort: Public engagement in practice
This article examines the scope of well-being as a focus for tourism and its potential as a tool for small business development, particularly the opportunities for tourism entrepreneurs in coastal resorts. The study reports an example of public engagement by a research team and the co-creation of research knowledge with businesses to assist in business development by adapting many existing features of tourist resorts and extending their offer to wider markets. The synergy between well-being and public health interests also brings potential benefits for the tourism workforce and the host community. The Case Study outlines how these ideas were tested in Bournemouth, a southern coastal resort in the UK, in a study ultimately intended to be adopted nationally and with more wide reaching implications for global development of the visitor economy. Local changes ascribed to the study are assessed and its wider potential is evaluated
Dynamics in Interaction in Bilingual Team Teaching : Examples from a Finnish Preschool Classroom
The current study aims to explore team teaching as it is manifested in bilingual interactional patterns in a
preschool classroom in Finland. The data was collected in a preschool classroom where a bilingual pedagogy in
Finnish (majority language) and Swedish (minority language) was implemented with monolingual Finnishspeaking
children. Video recordings were made while two teachers with different predefined language roles
were team teaching a class of 20 children during two circle times. A two-level analytic model was developed: on
the macro level activity types, participant roles (type of leadership) and language allocation (the teachers’
relative use of Finnish and Swedish) were identified, and on the micro level teacher interaction was analysed in
detail in terms of turn-taking patterns and language use. The findings are analysed in relation to the predefined
roles of the two teachers – one as a Finnish speaker and the other as a bilingual Swedish/Finnish speaker. The
results show extensive dynamics in how the predefined participant and language roles were put into practice: all
three types of leadership (single, alternated and co-leadership) were identified in the data and both the teachers
communicated both monolingually and bilingually in the various circle time activities. When communicating
bilingually, the teachers applied strategies such as code-switching, avoidance of translation and the use of
scaffolding to support understanding. Separation strategies (separation by person, topic or purpose) also
appeared in the data, however. The two teachers’ cooperation was smooth and they supported and assisted each
other in various ways both academically and linguistically.peerReviewe