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“Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives (2014)
Journal Article
MacCallum-Stewart, E. (2014). “Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives

Since Lara first “bust” onto our screens in 1996 in Tomb Raider (Edios Interactive), she has been a focal point for critical debate surrounding the representation of the female protagonist and the gendered body in games. Nearly twenty years after her... Read More about “Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives.

Scaling informal learning at the workplace: A model and four designs from a large-scale design-based research effort (2014)
Journal Article
Ley, T., Cook, J., Dennerlein, S., Kravcik, M., Kunzmann, C., Pata, K., …Trattner, C. (2014). Scaling informal learning at the workplace: A model and four designs from a large-scale design-based research effort. British Journal of Educational Technology, 45(6), 1036-1048. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12197

© 2014 British Educational Research Association. Workplace learning happens in the process and context of work, is multi-episodic, often informal, problem based and takes place on a just-in-time basis. While this is a very effective means of delivery... Read More about Scaling informal learning at the workplace: A model and four designs from a large-scale design-based research effort.

Augmenting reality and formality of informal and non-formal settings to enhance blended learning (2014)
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Hernández-Leo, D., Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Perez-Sanagustin, M., Hernandez-Leo, D., Santos, P., Kloos, C. D., & Blat, J. (2014). Augmenting reality and formality of informal and non-formal settings to enhance blended learning. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 7(2), 118-131. https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2014.2312719

Visits to museums and city tours have been part of higher and secondary education curriculum activities for many years. However these activities are typically considered "less formal" when compared to those carried out in the classroom, mainly becaus... Read More about Augmenting reality and formality of informal and non-formal settings to enhance blended learning.

The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Grodach, C., Currid-Halkett, E., Foster, N., & Murdoch, J. (2014). The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis. Urban Studies, 51(13), 2822-2843. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013516523

Analysing census and industry data at the metro and neighbourhood levels, this paper seeks to identify the location characteristics associated with artistic clusters and determine how these characteristics vary across different places. We find that t... Read More about The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis.

Gentrification and the artistic dividend: The role of the arts in neighborhood change (2014)
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Grodach, C., Foster, N., & Murdoch, J. (2014). Gentrification and the artistic dividend: The role of the arts in neighborhood change. Journal of the American Planning Association, 80(1), 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2014.928584

Problem, research strategy, and findings: There is a conflict between recent creative placemaking policies intended to promote positive neighborhood development through the arts and the fact that the arts have long been cited as contributing to gentr... Read More about Gentrification and the artistic dividend: The role of the arts in neighborhood change.

The effect of a bilingual learning mode on the establishment of lexical semantic representations in the L2 (2014)
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Elgort, I., & Piasecki, A. E. (2014). The effect of a bilingual learning mode on the establishment of lexical semantic representations in the L2. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17(3), 572-588. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728913000588

Deliberate vocabulary learning is common in the L2, however, questions remain about most efficient and effective forms of this learning approach. Bilingual models of L2 word learning and processing can be used to make predictions about outcomes of le... Read More about The effect of a bilingual learning mode on the establishment of lexical semantic representations in the L2.

Social network innovation in the Internet’s global coffee houses: designing a mobile Help Seeking tool in Learning Layers (2014)
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Cook, J., & Santos, P. (2014). Social network innovation in the Internet’s global coffee houses: designing a mobile Help Seeking tool in Learning Layers. Educational Media International, 51(3), 199-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/09523987.2014.968446

© 2014, © 2014 International Council for Educational Media. In this paper, we argue that there is much that we can learn from the past as we explore the issues raised when designing innovative social media and mobile technologies for learning. Like t... Read More about Social network innovation in the Internet’s global coffee houses: designing a mobile Help Seeking tool in Learning Layers.

Oundle, Northamptonshire (2014)
Journal Article
Coates, R. (2014). Oundle, Northamptonshire

The name of Oundle, noted earliest as the death-place of St Wilfrid and later of St Cett, and as the burial-place of archbishop Wulfstan of York, has not received a fully satisfactory explanation, despite a wealth of early mentions.