Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers (2023)
Book

The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists organising in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a renewed recognition of this essential fact is behind the 'turn to organising' in the union movement today. This... Read More about Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers.

Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life (2023)
Book

‘Why study the arts at school?’ This book offers a fresh perspective on this question. Informed by rigorous research, the book argues that the arts help young people to develop key skills, knowledge and practices that support them to become both crit... Read More about Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life.

Understanding secondary school students' agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon (2023)
Journal Article

This article investigates students’ post-secondary education transition processes in Cameroon through the lens of agency. Situated in a country where the higher education participation rate is fairly low, our article explores how students agentically... Read More about Understanding secondary school students' agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon.

Self-Discovery and Healing in Nepantla: Multimodality and Learning by Design in a Mixed Spanish University Classroom (2023)
Journal Article

This article explores the enactment of inclusive pedagogical practices in an intermediate, Spanish-as-a-secondlanguage mixed writing class in an R1 university in Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, this work examines how the use of auth... Read More about Self-Discovery and Healing in Nepantla: Multimodality and Learning by Design in a Mixed Spanish University Classroom.

Participation or eschewal? Final-year secondary school students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon (2022)
Journal Article

In this article we examine students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon and consider the role of personal and socioeconomic factors in their post-school educational trajectories. The data were drawn from a questionnaire s... Read More about Participation or eschewal? Final-year secondary school students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon.

Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID-19 in global contexts (2022)
Journal Article

This special issue was proposed by Children & Society editors specifically for the journal's strategic aims to enhance its internationalisation; and to embrace children's perspectives and experiences in producing knowledge about childhoods in challen... Read More about Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID-19 in global contexts.

Curriculum reform in agricultural vocational education and training in Zimbabwe: Implementation challenges and possibilities (2022)
Journal Article

There is a need for the agricultural technical vocational education and training curriculum in Zimbabwe to be reformed so that it can respond to changes in farmer demographics, the expanding roles of agricultural extension officers (AEOs), changes in... Read More about Curriculum reform in agricultural vocational education and training in Zimbabwe: Implementation challenges and possibilities.

Men times ten: does the presence of more men support inclusion of male educators in early childhood education and care? (2022)
Journal Article

Retention rates for men in early childhood education and care (ECEC) are low. Exit is associated with experience of feeling ‘other’ perpetuated by judgements of men’s sexuality, motives, and ability. In this paper, we take the unique circumstance of... Read More about Men times ten: does the presence of more men support inclusion of male educators in early childhood education and care?.

Disabled Refugees Included and Visible in Education (DRIVE): case reports: South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe (2022)
Report

Contents: Disabled refugees students included and visible in education: challenges and opportunities in three African countries: South Africa case report / Nicole De-Wet Billings, Khuthala Mabetha -- Disabled refugees students included and visible in... Read More about Disabled Refugees Included and Visible in Education (DRIVE): case reports: South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

School to school collaboration through Teaching School Alliances in England: ‘system leadership’ in a messy and hybrid governance context (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores school-to-school collaboration via Teaching School Alliances (TSAs) in one locality in England, drawing on governance theory (Bevir, 2011) - specifically hierarchy, markets and networks (Tenbensel, 2015). It focuses on three TSA... Read More about School to school collaboration through Teaching School Alliances in England: ‘system leadership’ in a messy and hybrid governance context.

Self-study in Teaching and Teacher Education: Characteristics and contributions (2022)
Journal Article

The author analyzes self-study research in Teaching and Teacher Education (TATE). An introduction to self-study of professional practice as scholarship and methodology is followed by descriptions of 10 selected articles. Next is a presentation of 10... Read More about Self-study in Teaching and Teacher Education: Characteristics and contributions.

Working with complexity: Leading school networks in Aotearoa New Zealand and England (2022)
Journal Article

Inter-school networks have been promoted in many school systems globally to facilitate: knowledge generation and dissemination; responsiveness to increasingly diverse student and societal needs; and emotional and practical peer support for educationa... Read More about Working with complexity: Leading school networks in Aotearoa New Zealand and England.

Educational reform and teachers’ agency in reconstructing pedagogical practices in Kazakhstan (2022)
Journal Article

This paper explores how schoolteachers in Kazakhstan engaged with the Renewed Content of Education (RCE) that has been introduced by the Government, and how changes in their beliefs and understandings influenced classroom practice. The study draws on... Read More about Educational reform and teachers’ agency in reconstructing pedagogical practices in Kazakhstan.

Networking Small Rural Schools in the Pandemic (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter draws on findings from an evaluation of two regional networks developed by the Church of England Foundation for Educational Leadership to support senior leaders in small rural schools in England. The networks were launched in September 2... Read More about Networking Small Rural Schools in the Pandemic.

Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Pupils and Mental Wellbeing (2022)
Book Chapter

Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller (GRT) communities suffer some of the worst health outcomes in the UK including low levels of life expectancy, high rates of infant mortality, and a high prevalence of chronic health conditions (McFadden et al., 2018; NHS, 2... Read More about Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Pupils and Mental Wellbeing.

Engaging in Arts-Based Poetic Inquiry: Generating Pedagogical Possibilities in Preservice Teacher Education (2022)
Journal Article

This article uses poetry to articulate a collaborative object inquiry into educational spaces through which we move/d. At the time of this study, we were both teacher educators at a university in South Africa, working in social justice and ecojustice... Read More about Engaging in Arts-Based Poetic Inquiry: Generating Pedagogical Possibilities in Preservice Teacher Education.

Mathematics in England’s further education colleges: who is teaching what, and why it matters (2022)
Journal Article

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.

Leading Educational Networks: Theory, Policy and Practice (2022)
Book

This book offers a global perspective on educational networks, reviewing theory and practice before setting out four lenses: educational effectiveness and improvement; governance theory; complexity theory; and Actor-Network Theory. Using these lenses... Read More about Leading Educational Networks: Theory, Policy and Practice.

Men in early childhood education and care: on navigating a gendered terrain (2022)
Journal Article

Globally, the underrepresentation of men in the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) workforce is ongoing and has been largely attributed to the construction of ECEC as ‘women’s work’. Men’s involvement in ECEC can help to deconstruct the femini... Read More about Men in early childhood education and care: on navigating a gendered terrain.

Vox Poetica: bringing an arts-based research method to school leaders’ lockdown experiences (2022)
Journal Article

The work of school leaders during lockdown has been emotionally charged and emotionally draining, affecting immediate well-being and longer term career plans. In order to communicate the emotions that we were told about and which were obvious during... Read More about Vox Poetica: bringing an arts-based research method to school leaders’ lockdown experiences.