Language Education and Applied Linguistics: bridging the two fields provides a starting point for students and researchers in both Language and Education who wish to interpret and use insights from the field of Applied Linguistics, and for Applied Linguists who wish to engage in dialogue with language educators and researchers in education.
With the aim of promoting and aiding the use of ICT in education, Digital Learning focuses on the current trends, perspectives, researches, discussions and initiatives of various countries of the world in the field of ICT and education. Over the years, this monthly education magazine has built up a vast body of knowledge that can help organizations and government agencies regarding e-learning initiatives or other technology mediated learning. Our initiative is based on the understanding that technology can play a pivotal role in improving access and quality of education throughout the world.
Cuts to education funding throughout the developed world are making it more important than ever that we understand the link between education, disadvantage, and place.
Asia’s premier magazine on education, digitalLEARNING was founded in the year 2005. digitalLEARNING’s mission is to raise awareness about how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is playing a seminal role in enhancing the scope, reach and quality of education. In essence, digitalLEARNING offers an unbiased presentation of the myriad issues that lie at the core of this ‘technological innovations in education’ versus ‘traditional educational methods’ debate.
Developmental Education is an approach to education in school that aims at promoting children’s cultural development and their abilities to participate autonomously and well-informed in the cultural practices of their community. From the point of view of Cultural-historical Activity theory (CHAT), a play-based curriculum has been developed over the past decades for primary school, which presents activity contexts for pupils in the classroom that create learning and teaching opportunities for helping pupils with appropriating cultural knowledge, skills, and moral understandings in meaningful ways.