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Participation or eschewal? Final-year secondary school students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon (2022)
Journal Article
Zhao, T., & Xu, Y. (2022). Participation or eschewal? Final-year secondary school students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon. South African Journal of Education, 42(4), Article 2126. https://doi.org/10.15700/saje.v42n4a2126

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.

Academic Career Development of Chinese Returnees With Overseas Ph.D. Degrees: A Bioecological Development Perspective (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, D., Xu, Y., Zhao, T., & Che, S. (2022). Academic Career Development of Chinese Returnees With Overseas Ph.D. Degrees: A Bioecological Development Perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 859240. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.859240

This study uses the bioecological model of human development to understand the academic career development of Chinese returnees with overseas Ph.D. degrees (CROPs). Focuses are placed on how CROPs engaged in this process through interactions with con... Read More about Academic Career Development of Chinese Returnees With Overseas Ph.D. Degrees: A Bioecological Development Perspective.

Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China (2022)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Schweisfurth, M., & Read, B. (2022). Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China. Comparative Education, 58(3), 345-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2022.2062950

At the global level, prominent narratives about improving the quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC) promote the recruitment of men into the profession. However, comparing across different policy and practice settings demonstrates contr... Read More about Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China.

The Storymaker Wheel: An investigation into how teachers and pupils can use a counter‐culture assessment tool to evaluate creative writing in the classroom (2021)
Journal Article
Elliott, J., & Southern, A. (2021). The Storymaker Wheel: An investigation into how teachers and pupils can use a counter‐culture assessment tool to evaluate creative writing in the classroom. Curriculum Journal, 32(4), 667-687. https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.112

This paper outlines the processes of creating a ‘Storymaker Wheel’, a creativity evaluation tool conceptualised with input from a children's book author, a children's book illustrator, academics and teachers, for teachers and pupils to use to support... Read More about The Storymaker Wheel: An investigation into how teachers and pupils can use a counter‐culture assessment tool to evaluate creative writing in the classroom.

Why is school-to-school collaboration important and how can we make it work? (2021)
Book Chapter
Greany, T. (2021). Why is school-to-school collaboration important and how can we make it work?. In Connecting Classrooms: Unlocking a world of potential - Leading the way (25-32). London: British Council

Networks, collaborations and partnerships between schools can take multiple forms and achieve multiple objectives. This can make them hard to make sense of – and even harder to lead and manage. Nevertheless, this chapter argues that policy makers sho... Read More about Why is school-to-school collaboration important and how can we make it work?.

Not just “implementation”: the synergy of research and practice in an engineering research approach to educational design and development (2020)
Journal Article
Burkhardt, H., & Schoenfeld, A. (2021). Not just “implementation”: the synergy of research and practice in an engineering research approach to educational design and development. ZDM, 53(5), 991-1005. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-020-01208-z

This paper builds on a range of traditions in educational research and design to argue, with empirical evidence, that constructing powerful instructional materials and approaches that work at scale requires a grounding in theory and a commitment to e... Read More about Not just “implementation”: the synergy of research and practice in an engineering research approach to educational design and development.

The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities (2020)
Journal Article
Amsler, S., & Simpson, D. (2020). The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities. Foucault Studies, 1(28), 36-70. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v1i28.6073

Applying Foucault's concepts of disciplinary power and technologies of the self to the experiences of social work academics in English universities, this articles reveals their carceral existences, arguing that social work academics and their student... Read More about The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities.

Using small world toys for research: a method for gaining insight into children’s lived experiences of school (2020)
Journal Article
Gripton, C., & Vincent, K. (2020). Using small world toys for research: a method for gaining insight into children’s lived experiences of school. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 44(3), 225-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2020.1753692

The importance of children’s perspectives is now well-established and there has been much attention afforded to appropriate methods for listening to children within the research. Whilst language-based research methods, such as interview, remain commo... Read More about Using small world toys for research: a method for gaining insight into children’s lived experiences of school.