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  OnlineFirst Alert These new articles for Active Learning in Higher Education are available online View online Decreased class size, increased active learning? Intended and enacted teaching strategies in smaller classes Mary C Wright, Inger Bergom, Tracy Bartholomew Active Learning in Higher Education Oct 27, 2017 | OnlineFirst Article Do interactive learning spaces increase student achievement? A comparison of classroom context Mary Lou Vercellotti Active Learning in Higher Education Oct 27, 2017 | OnlineFirst   Predicting peer-assisted study session attendance Peter J Allen, Kate E Tonta, Sophie B Haywood, Raphael M Pereira, Lynne D Roberts Active Learning in Higher Education Oct 27, 2017 | OnlineFirst   Learning approach and its relationship to type of media use and frequency of media-mul...

  If this email is not displayed correctly, please click here to read this table of contents online. New Issue Alert 10/30/2017 Dear Reader, We are pleased to deliver your requested table of contents alert for Educational Studies in Mathematics . Volume 96 Number 3 is now available online. Important news Your ORCID iD – As unique as you ORCID identifiers are permanent, personal digital codes that distinguish you from every other researcher. Submit your iD with your manuscripts! Your publication record will be linked to your iD and can be discovered and recognized by others – all in one place. Find out more! In this issue Conceptualising the more kn...

  The online platform for Taylor & Francis Online content Studies in Higher Education, Volume 42, Issue 11, November 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online . This new issue contains the following articles:     Articles Competences in Romanian higher education – an empirical investigation for the business sector Adela Deaconu & Cristina Silvia Nistor Pages: 1917-1940 | DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1119108   Communities of practice in higher education: contradictory narratives of a university-wide curriculum reform Johanna Annala & Marita Mäkinen Pages: 1941-1957 | DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1125877   The student-as-consumer approach in higher education and its effects on academic performance | Louise Bunce , Amy Baird & Siân E. Jones Pages: 1958-1978 | DOI: 10.1080/0307507...

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  Reframing the Debate on Asian Students and Critical Thinking: Implications for Western Universities David Rear Chuo University daverear.175@g.chuo-u.ac.jp   Abstract: This paper examines the widespread contention that, as a result of their cultural and educational  backgrounds, students from Asia lack the critical thinking skills required when they study abroad at Western universities. It scrutinises this view from two perspectives. First, it problematises the use of Asia as a monolithic entity, arguing that the stereotyping of Asian students as uncritical is an act of Othering that fails to recognise the cultural and social diversity of such a large group of people. Second, it looks at studies of the critical thinking skills of Asian students to determine whether there is empirical evidence that they do indeed lack these fundamental cognitive abilities. From a comprehensive review of the literature, it finds that most of the specific skills and di...

  If this email is not displayed correctly, please click here to read this table of contents online. New Issue Alert 10/04/2017 Dear Reader, We are pleased to deliver your requested table of contents alert for Educational Studies in Mathematics . Volume 96 Number 2 is now available online. Special Issue: Research-based interventions in the area of proof Important news Education from Asia Pacific Take advantage of this series of article and book chapter collection – Education from Asia Pacific. All featured articles and chapters are free to access until October 20th, 2017. READ it now! In this issue Research-based interventions in the area of proof: the past, the present, and t...