Assessment of relevant outcomes is a key challenge in evaluating effects of social-communication interventions. However, few studies have investigated in what ways specific and more global measures may influence reported ...

In this research, we investigated relationships between undergraduate students’ prior topic beliefs and their recall of the main conclusions from texts on controversial socio-scientific issues, to what extent students ...

This paper explores the ways in which the later semeiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce may offer a new way of theorising the dynamics of knowledge and learning within a globalised world of change. In the first section of the ...

Three models of expert-public interaction in science and technology communication are central: the dissemination model (often called the deficit model), the dialogue model, and the participation model. These three models ...

“Science 2.0” is still evolving; basically, it is an ongoing, “natural” experiment about a potentially novel way of participating in knowledge construction processes based on Internet applications. The topic of this article ...

Background: It is well documented that heightened levels of parenting stress have a negative influence on children’s socio-emotional and behavioral development. Parenting stress may therefore be regarded as an outcome ...

This paper aims to use the Foucauldian concept of the dispositive as a methodological pathway to critical educational research. Throughout the paper, I consider the concept as a passage through which to extract and dwell ...

This article discusses changes with respect to university governance structures in six comprehensive universities in Europe. We present an analytical framework on the basis of which we conduct a comparative analysis of the ...

In this article we discuss recent university reforms aimed at enhancing university autonomy, highlighting various tensions in the underlying reform ideologies. We examine how the traditional interpretation of university ...