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Construction and Engineering Higher Education: The Role of Pracademics in Recoupling Classical Experiential Educational Norms (2023)
Book Chapter
Forster, A. M., Pilcher, N., Murray, M., Tennant, S., Craig, N., & Galbrun, L. (2023). Construction and Engineering Higher Education: The Role of Pracademics in Recoupling Classical Experiential Educational Norms. In J. Dickinson, & T. Griffiths (Eds.), Professional Development for Practitioners in Academia: Pracademia (211-227). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33746-8_15

This chapter considers the development of construction and engineering education that historically chartered an increasingly decoupled trajectory from being practical in nature, to include progressively more theoretical instruction. Indeed, over the... Read More about Construction and Engineering Higher Education: The Role of Pracademics in Recoupling Classical Experiential Educational Norms.

Using Rubrics as Feedforward Tools for Subject Contextualized Dialogue (2023)
Book Chapter
Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2023). Using Rubrics as Feedforward Tools for Subject Contextualized Dialogue. In C. Gonsalves, & J. Pearson (Eds.), Improving Learning Through Assessment Rubrics: Student Awareness of What and How They Learn (229-247). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6086-3.ch013

This chapter outlines an approach to using rubrics in a feedforward process using dialogue between teachers and students that takes place before students hand in their assignments. As such, it aims to complement existing research demonstrating the va... Read More about Using Rubrics as Feedforward Tools for Subject Contextualized Dialogue.

Developing critical intercultural competence through understanding the location, product and processes of dialogue (2022)
Book Chapter
Pilcher, N., & Zhou, V. X. (2022). Developing critical intercultural competence through understanding the location, product and processes of dialogue. In M. Sommier, A. Roiha, & M. Lahti (Eds.), Interculturality in Higher Education: Putting Critical Approaches into Practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003322702-3

The idea of ‘intercultural competence’ (ICC) has been beset by tension between training models presenting culture as understood through ‘nation’ based constructs, and counterarguments disparaging such models as reductive and othering, dividing nation... Read More about Developing critical intercultural competence through understanding the location, product and processes of dialogue.

What Is The ‘Academic Purpose’ Of ‘English’ In ‘English For Academic Purposes’? (2017)
Book Chapter
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2017). What Is The ‘Academic Purpose’ Of ‘English’ In ‘English For Academic Purposes’?. In L. Tuen Wong, & W. Lam Wong (Eds.), Teaching and Learning English for Academic Purposes: Current Research and Practices. No

In this chapter, we suggest abandoning the current form of EAP for a form of EAP that is actively explorative of and taught within individual subject contexts. We argue that for students to meet the ‘academic purposes’ in academic subjects requires t... Read More about What Is The ‘Academic Purpose’ Of ‘English’ In ‘English For Academic Purposes’?.

Deconstructing 'Mono'-Lingualism: considerations of value for 'English' 'language' education in a global setting. (2015)
Book Chapter
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2015). Deconstructing 'Mono'-Lingualism: considerations of value for 'English' 'language' education in a global setting. In L. T. Wong, & A. Dubey-Jhaveri (Eds.), English language education in a global world: practices, issues

Traditionally, language speakers are categorised as mono-lingual, bilingual, or multilingual. It is traditionally assumed in English language education that the ‘lingual’ is something that can be ‘fixed’ in form, written down to be learnt, and taught... Read More about Deconstructing 'Mono'-Lingualism: considerations of value for 'English' 'language' education in a global setting..

‘Discuss, Analyse, Define …’ Non-traditional Students Come to Terms with Cultures of Learning in the UK (2013)
Book Chapter
Pilcher, N., & Richards, K. (2013). ‘Discuss, Analyse, Define …’ Non-traditional Students Come to Terms with Cultures of Learning in the UK. In M. Cortazzi, & L. Jin (Eds.), Researching Intercultural Learning (135-151). Palgrave Macmillan. https://d

In contrast to students in many countries, British university students are often older than the common 18–22 age range; some are ‘non-traditional’ students who may have had experience of work in industrial or professional contexts before they study.... Read More about ‘Discuss, Analyse, Define …’ Non-traditional Students Come to Terms with Cultures of Learning in the UK.