Matthew Pearson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Pearson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Pearson |
| SIGNATURE | PEARSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5231-320X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mining Consumer Minds
This research sheds light on consumer motivations for participating in the sharing economy and examines downstream consequences of the uncovered motivations. We use text-mining techniques to extract Airbnb hosts' motivations from their responses to the question 'why did you start hosting.' We find that hosts are driven not only by the monetary motivation 'to earn cash' but also by intrinsic motivations such as 'to share beauty' and 'to meet peopl…
Enhancing the Interpretive Reading and Analytical Writing of Mainstreamed English Learners in Secondary School
In this study, 72 secondary English teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District were randomly assigned to participate in the Pathway Project, a cognitive strategies approach to teaching interpretive reading and analytical writing, or to a control condition involving typical district training focusing on teaching content from the textbook. Pathway teachers learned how to use an on-demand writing assessment to help mainstreamed English lear…
Learning transformation with technology
There is currently strong interest among policy‐makers internationally in the idea of transformative learning, and considerable evidence that existing educational institutions are not equipped to provide this kind of learning experience for young people. Definitions of transformative learning are problematic, however, and few take full account of the radical sociocultural changes resulting from the introduction of digital technologies such as the…
The Malagasy Subject/Topic as an A′-Element
Intercultural Learning Arising from Pan‐European Collaboration
This article analyses the inter‐cultural learning that arose from engaging in collaborative research with partners in several European countries. It adopts a sociocultural approach, starting with a description of the pressures of accountability arising from the contractual context of a European‐funded project. Wenger's model of a community of practice and semiotic analysis based on Geertz's definition of culture are used as tools for understandin…
The Malagasy Subject/Topic as an A′-Element
Mining Consumer Minds
This research sheds light on consumer motivations for participating in the sharing economy and examines downstream consequences of the uncovered motivations. We use text-mining techniques to extract Airbnb hosts' motivations from their responses to the question 'why did you start hosting.' We find that hosts are driven not only by the monetary motivation 'to earn cash' but also by intrinsic motivations such as 'to share beauty' and 'to meet peopl…
Learning transformation with technology
There is currently strong interest among policy‐makers internationally in the idea of transformative learning, and considerable evidence that existing educational institutions are not equipped to provide this kind of learning experience for young people. Definitions of transformative learning are problematic, however, and few take full account of the radical sociocultural changes resulting from the introduction of digital technologies such as the…
Enhancing the Interpretive Reading and Analytical Writing of Mainstreamed English Learners in Secondary School
In this study, 72 secondary English teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District were randomly assigned to participate in the Pathway Project, a cognitive strategies approach to teaching interpretive reading and analytical writing, or to a control condition involving typical district training focusing on teaching content from the textbook. Pathway teachers learned how to use an on-demand writing assessment to help mainstreamed English lear…
Intercultural Learning Arising from Pan‐European Collaboration
This article analyses the inter‐cultural learning that arose from engaging in collaborative research with partners in several European countries. It adopts a sociocultural approach, starting with a description of the pressures of accountability arising from the contractual context of a European‐funded project. Wenger's model of a community of practice and semiotic analysis based on Geertz's definition of culture are used as tools for understandin…
Intercultural Learning Arising from Pan‐European Collaboration
This article analyses the inter‐cultural learning that arose from engaging in collaborative research with partners in several European countries. It adopts a sociocultural approach, starting with a description of the pressures of accountability arising from the contractual context of a European‐funded project. Wenger's model of a community of practice and semiotic analysis based on Geertz's definition of culture are used as tools for understandin…
The Malagasy Subject/Topic as an A′-Element
Learning transformation with technology
There is currently strong interest among policy‐makers internationally in the idea of transformative learning, and considerable evidence that existing educational institutions are not equipped to provide this kind of learning experience for young people. Definitions of transformative learning are problematic, however, and few take full account of the radical sociocultural changes resulting from the introduction of digital technologies such as the…
Enhancing the Interpretive Reading and Analytical Writing of Mainstreamed English Learners in Secondary School
In this study, 72 secondary English teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District were randomly assigned to participate in the Pathway Project, a cognitive strategies approach to teaching interpretive reading and analytical writing, or to a control condition involving typical district training focusing on teaching content from the textbook. Pathway teachers learned how to use an on-demand writing assessment to help mainstreamed English lear…
Mining Consumer Minds
This research sheds light on consumer motivations for participating in the sharing economy and examines downstream consequences of the uncovered motivations. We use text-mining techniques to extract Airbnb hosts' motivations from their responses to the question 'why did you start hosting.' We find that hosts are driven not only by the monetary motivation 'to earn cash' but also by intrinsic motivations such as 'to share beauty' and 'to meet peopl…
Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Innovative Education and Learning Practices (2 works) · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociocultural evolution (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · World Wide Web (2 works)