Local learning landscapes: conceptualising place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems (2024)
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Greany, T., Cowhitt, T., Noyes, A., Gripton, C., & Hudson, G. (2024). Local learning landscapes: conceptualising place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems. Journal of Educational Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-024-09508-x

This article sets out an original conceptual framework for place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems. High quality Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CDPL) by teachers is associated wi... Read More about Local learning landscapes: conceptualising place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems.

Research Subjects, Participants or Co‐researchers? Extending the Involvement of Students in Art and Design Research (2023)
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Maloy, L., & Thomson, P. (2023). Research Subjects, Participants or Co‐researchers? Extending the Involvement of Students in Art and Design Research. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 42(3), 353-366. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12470

Art education has a range of purposes. Art is said to support students to explore, interpret, ask critical questions, communicate and realise ideas, experiment, take risks, collaborate, tell stories and/or engage in social and political actions. In t... Read More about Research Subjects, Participants or Co‐researchers? Extending the Involvement of Students in Art and Design Research.

Mathematics in England’s further education colleges: who is teaching what, and why it matters (2022)
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Noyes, A., Dalby, D., & Lavis, Y. (2022). Mathematics in England’s further education colleges: who is teaching what, and why it matters. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 46(10), 1347-1361. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2022.2075720

Improving mathematical skills is a priority in England, and a series of policy levers and government change projects have focused on improving mathematical outcomes in further education (FE) in recent years. Yet little is known about the mathematics... Read More about Mathematics in England’s further education colleges: who is teaching what, and why it matters.

Evidence-Based Practice in Higher Education: Teacher Educators' Attitudes, Challenges, and Uses (2020)
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Diery, A., Vogel, F., Knogler, M., & Seidel, T. (2020). Evidence-Based Practice in Higher Education: Teacher Educators' Attitudes, Challenges, and Uses. Frontiers in Education, 5, Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00062

Teacher educators are encouraged to promote evidence-based practice in teaching and to use evidence for their own teaching. In the present study, teacher educators' attitudes, perceived challenges, and uses regarding evidence-based practice are descr... Read More about Evidence-Based Practice in Higher Education: Teacher Educators' Attitudes, Challenges, and Uses.

The doing of ethnographies of eating: writing, observing, and eating chip butties during ethnographic research in primary schools in England (2020)
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Earl, L. (2020). The doing of ethnographies of eating: writing, observing, and eating chip butties during ethnographic research in primary schools in England. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2020.1761476

This paper explores the experience of researching food in schools. Food is personal. It is an ingested symbol of culture, family, tradition, ethnicity... What does this mean as a researcher? How do we navigate food relationships? How is this relation... Read More about The doing of ethnographies of eating: writing, observing, and eating chip butties during ethnographic research in primary schools in England.

Performing PowerPoint lectures: examining the extent of slide-text integration into lecturers’ spoken expositions (2019)
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Hallewell, M., & Crook, C. (2020). Performing PowerPoint lectures: examining the extent of slide-text integration into lecturers’ spoken expositions. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 44(4), 467-482. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2019.1579895

The PowerPoint assisted lecture (slide-lecture) is a common lecturing approach in Higher Education, in spite of much criticism of its use. Its popularity is facilitated by its affordances for multimodal instructional design, e.g. text with images and... Read More about Performing PowerPoint lectures: examining the extent of slide-text integration into lecturers’ spoken expositions.

The pedagogical logics of arts-rich schools: a Bourdieusian analysis (2019)
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Thomson, P., Hall, C., Earl, L., & Geppert, C. (2019). The pedagogical logics of arts-rich schools: a Bourdieusian analysis. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40(2), 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2018.1554474

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The arts are under threat in English schools. But some schools and teachers work against the trend. To understand how they continue to offer rich arts experiences to students, we... Read More about The pedagogical logics of arts-rich schools: a Bourdieusian analysis.

The social anatomy of 'collusion' (2019)
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Crook, C., & Elizabeth, N. (2019). The social anatomy of 'collusion'. British Educational Research Journal, 45(2), 388-406. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3504

This paper offers a conceptual analysis of collusion, the often overlooked relative of plagiarism in debates on academic integrity. Considered as an inherently social phenomenon, we present the results of a systematic effort to understand the anatomy... Read More about The social anatomy of 'collusion'.

Subject choice as everyday accommodation/resistance: why students in England (still) choose the arts (2018)
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Thomson, P., Hall, C., Earl, L., & Geppert, C. (2020). Subject choice as everyday accommodation/resistance: why students in England (still) choose the arts. Critical Studies in Education, 61(5), 545-560. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2018.1525754

High school students are expected to make choices about which subjects they study. These choices are not completely open but steered by what is on offer, previous achievement and conversations with teachers, family and friends; choices are patterned... Read More about Subject choice as everyday accommodation/resistance: why students in England (still) choose the arts.

Using personalized teaching and learning to improve clinical performance (2018)
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Sandars, J., & Patel, R. (2018). Using personalized teaching and learning to improve clinical performance. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 79(2), 102-105. https://doi.org/10.12968/hmed.2018.79.2.102

The intention of personalized teaching and learning to improve clinical performance is the optimization of individual performance across a variety of tasks in different environments. Educational interventions need to have a focus on the assessment an... Read More about Using personalized teaching and learning to improve clinical performance.

How to combine collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples to foster mathematical argumentation – when working memory matters (2017)
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Schwaighofer, M., Vogel, F., Kollar, I., Ufer, S., Strohmaier, A., Terwedow, I., …Fischer, F. (2017). How to combine collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples to foster mathematical argumentation – when working memory matters. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 12(3), 281-305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-017-9260-z

Mathematical argumentation skills (MAS) are considered an important outcome of mathematics learning, particularly in secondary and tertiary education. As MAS are complex, an effective way of supporting their acquisition may require combining differen... Read More about How to combine collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples to foster mathematical argumentation – when working memory matters.

A Qualitative Exploration of the Help-Seeking Behaviors of Students Who Experience Psychological Distress Around Assessment at Medical School (2017)
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Winter, R. I., Patel, R., & Norman, R. I. (2017). A Qualitative Exploration of the Help-Seeking Behaviors of Students Who Experience Psychological Distress Around Assessment at Medical School. Academic Psychiatry, 41(4), 477-485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-017-0701-9

Objective Medical students are at high risk of experiencing psychological distress at medical school and developing mental ill-health during professional practice. Despite efforts by faculty to raise awareness about this risk, many students choose... Read More about A Qualitative Exploration of the Help-Seeking Behaviors of Students Who Experience Psychological Distress Around Assessment at Medical School.

Medical students’ personal experience of high-stakes failure: case studies using interpretative phenomenological analysis (2015)
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Patel, R., Tarrant, C., Bonas, S., & Shaw, R. (2015). Medical students’ personal experience of high-stakes failure: case studies using interpretative phenomenological analysis. BMC Medical Education, 15(1), Article 86. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-015-0371-9

Background Failing a high-stakes assessment at medical school is a major event for those who go through the experience. Students who fail at medical school may be more likely to struggle in professional practice, therefore helping individuals overco... Read More about Medical students’ personal experience of high-stakes failure: case studies using interpretative phenomenological analysis.