The purpose of this study was to describe student teachers’ perceptions and preferences of the type of supervision they experienced while interacting with their university supervisors and cooperating teachers. Results revealed that student teachers perceived both their cooperating teachers and university supervisors to engage in contextual and clinical supervision practices. Cooperating teacher...

In this issue... The authors provide insights into Canadians' state of retirement preparedness, not only across income groups, but also within them.

This paper reports the consolidated ideas of many committed individuals but does not prejudge the individual opinions of any of its contributor or their employers. Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on its behalf is responsible for the use which might be made of the information contained in the present publication. The European Commission is not responsible for the external w...

Over the last two years, much discussion has taken place about an advanced Internet that will somehow replace or supercede the Internet of today. What is this future Internet? Where will it come from? Why do we need it? How might it impact higher education? How should we be involved? While this article may not provide definitive answers to each of these questions, it does explore the key issues...

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing the semant...

This paper contributes to our knowledge of teacher educators' strategies for, and dilemmas with, working with gender inclusion in teachers' education. It illustrates how gender is constructed and reconstructed in teachers' education. The study revealed that teachers' education is not only – as earlier described – a highly feminised field, it is also a discipline that is permeated by horizontal ...

There are many societal concerns that emerge as a consequence of Future Internet (FI) research and development. A survey identified six key social and economic issues deemed most relevant to European FI projects. During a SESERV-organized workshop, experts in Future Internet technology engaged with social scientists (including economists), policy experts and other stakeholders in analyzing the ...

In a world of continuous growth of economies and global population eco-sustainability is of outmost relevance. Especially, mobile broadband networks are facing an exponential growing traffic volume and so the sustainability of these networks comes into focus. The recently completed European funded Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project EARTH has studied the impact of traffic growth on mobile...

This paper presents Halos Networks as a competitive architectural paradigm for developing future Internet of-with Things. A Halos Network is like a wireless network spontaneously emerging through the interactions of distributed resources embedding wireless communication capabilities. Halos Networks are capable of delivering services and data virally through multiple devices, machines and object...

In the past decade, several researchers have started reinvestigating the use of sub-phonetic models for lexical representations within automatic speech recognition systems. Lest history repeat itself, it may be instructive to mine the further past for models of lexical representations in the lexical access literature. In this work, we re-evaluate the model of Briscoe (1989), in which a hybrid s...