Performing PowerPoint lectures: examining the extent of slide-text integration into lecturers’ spoken expositions (2019)
Journal Article

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.

Teacher training bursaries in England: an analysis of their impact on the quantity and quality of trainees (2019)
Report

Curriculum responsiveness and student employability: An institutional analysis (2019)
Book Chapter

Education organisations are under constant pressure from policy-makers, political actors and the public to make their programmes responsive to the needs of the economy and society. In contexts of social change and where broader economic and societal... Read More about Curriculum responsiveness and student employability: An institutional analysis.

Changing play – writing, researching and learning in an early years arts project (2019)
Journal Article

'Changing Play' is an ongoing project initiated by education curators from the Serpentine, a prestigious London art gallery, working with the Portman children's centre nursery. Viewed by curators as a collaboration between artist, children's centre s... Read More about Changing play – writing, researching and learning in an early years arts project.

De/Mathematising the Political in Mathematics Education: A De/Postcolonial Critique (2019)
Conference Proceeding

Various interpretations have been given to the double gesture of de/mathematising in relation to a variety of social thematic contexts demarcating ‘the political’ in mathematics education. By way of theoretical intervention, we offer the beginnings... Read More about De/Mathematising the Political in Mathematics Education: A De/Postcolonial Critique.

Migrants in the labor market: implications for TVET (2019)
Book Chapter

Migration is increasingly being seen as a political challenge and, thus, a policy priority. Yet the integration of migrants into labor markets is a key element of the political contestations of migration. On the one hand, successful labor market inte... Read More about Migrants in the labor market: implications for TVET.

The pedagogical logics of arts-rich schools: a Bourdieusian analysis (2019)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

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'.

Professional vision in fashion design: practices and views of teachers and learners (2018)
Journal Article

Professional vision is a key skill in visually-oriented professions, but its relevance to vocational education and training has only drawn limited attention from researchers. When educating fashion designers, professional vision is vital because prec... Read More about Professional vision in fashion design: practices and views of teachers and learners.

Thinking about the school most of the time: studio as generative metaphor for critical reflection (2018)
Journal Article

Busy leaders need time to reflect and renew. They need to consider the particularities of their school and the ways in which they can work with others in the school community to address pressing issues, as well as to make future plans. The metaphor o... Read More about Thinking about the school most of the time: studio as generative metaphor for critical reflection.

Subject choice as everyday accommodation/resistance: why students in England (still) choose the arts (2018)
Journal Article

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.

Measuring privatisation in education: methodological challenges and possibilities (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 Educational Review. As the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) spreads, key questions that attempt to identify both the nature and the increasing scope and scale of this phenomenon become empirically significant. The concern of thi... Read More about Measuring privatisation in education: methodological challenges and possibilities.

Using personalized teaching and learning to improve clinical performance (2018)
Journal Article

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.

Adult education, spirit and the 'New Age': Sir George Trevelyan and the Shropshire Adult Education College at Attingham 1948-76 (2017)
Thesis

This thesis presents an interdisciplinary study of post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through an investigation of the Shropshire Adult Education College (SAEC), 1948-1976. This was located at Attingham Park, Atcham, Shropsh... Read More about Adult education, spirit and the 'New Age': Sir George Trevelyan and the Shropshire Adult Education College at Attingham 1948-76.

Gypsy students in the UK: the impact of ‘mobility’ on education (2017)
Journal Article

This paper argues that Gypsy students in primary and secondary education in the UK are marginalised because of ambiguous understandings of their ‘mobility’. Drawing on research conducted on the south coast of England, it examines Gypsy families’ expe... Read More about Gypsy students in the UK: the impact of ‘mobility’ on education.

Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities (2017)
Journal Article

This paper provides a critical discussion of internationalisation in Higher Education (HE), and exemplifies a process of uncovering the investments in power and ideology through the partial analysis of four strategic internationalisation documents at... Read More about Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities.

How to combine collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples to foster mathematical argumentation – when working memory matters (2017)
Journal Article

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.

Mathematics Education and the Problem of Political Forgetting: In Search of Research Methodologies for Global Crisis (2017)
Journal Article

More and more, standardized, efficiencies-based, and surveillance-driven modus operandi are prescriptively defining the interests of the individual and collective in terms of market-driven imperatives in consonance with the demands of the nation stat... Read More about Mathematics Education and the Problem of Political Forgetting: In Search of Research Methodologies for Global Crisis.

School-based social skills training for young people with autism spectrum disorders (2017)
Journal Article

Background: The Secret Agent Society (SAS) Program, an intervention to enhance social- emotional skills, was provided by schools for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The program was assessed to determine if it improved social skills at s... Read More about School-based social skills training for young people with autism spectrum disorders.

A Qualitative Exploration of the Help-Seeking Behaviors of Students Who Experience Psychological Distress Around Assessment at Medical School (2017)
Journal Article

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.