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TVET SI: Towards Sustainable Vocational Education and Training: Thinking beyond the formal (2023)
Journal Article
McGrath, S., & Russon, J.-A. (2023). TVET SI: Towards Sustainable Vocational Education and Training: Thinking beyond the formal. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 39, https://doi.org/10.4314/sajee.v39.03

Mainstream vocational education and training has been complicit in unsustainable practices due to its longstanding relationship with productivism, extractivism and colonialism. However, it is beginning to address the need to balance its dominant focu... Read More about TVET SI: Towards Sustainable Vocational Education and Training: Thinking beyond the formal.

Generative AI: Implications and Applications for Education (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Olga, A., Saini, A., Zapata, G., Searsmith, D., Cope, B., Kalantzis, M., …Polyxeni Kastania, N. Generative AI: Implications and Applications for Education

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 precipitated a panic among some educators while prompting qualified enthusiasm from others. Under the umbrella term Generative AI, ChatGPT is an example of a range of technologies for the delivery of computer-ge... Read More about Generative AI: Implications and Applications for Education.

‘Doing well’ and ‘being well’—secondary school teachers’ perspectives (2023)
Journal Article
Wilson, R., Sellman, E., & Joseph, S. (2023). ‘Doing well’ and ‘being well’—secondary school teachers’ perspectives. British Educational Research Journal, 49(5), 987-1004. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3878

The mental health and wellbeing of young people is increasingly a concern in schools. This study explores how English secondary school teachers perceive and engage with the concept of wellbeing. By asking teachers to reflect on their practice, we can... Read More about ‘Doing well’ and ‘being well’—secondary school teachers’ perspectives.

Competence in (meta-)cognitive learning strategies during help-seeking to overcome knowledge-related difficulties (2023)
Journal Article
Schlusche, C., Schnaubert, L., & Bodemer, D. (2023). Competence in (meta-)cognitive learning strategies during help-seeking to overcome knowledge-related difficulties. Active Learning in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1177/14697874231168343

Individual learning strategies evoke (meta-)cognitive processes that enable effective goal-directed learning. Peer-directed academic help-seeking may provide new information, but related interaction processes are challenging. Applying learning strate... Read More about Competence in (meta-)cognitive learning strategies during help-seeking to overcome knowledge-related difficulties.

Developing Instructional Leadership in Tanzania: Impact of a British Council Initiative (2023)
Journal Article
Bush, T., & Anania, A. M. (2023). Developing Instructional Leadership in Tanzania: Impact of a British Council Initiative. Research in Educational Administration and Leadership, 8(2), 296-333. https://doi.org/10.30828/real.1247119

Instructional leadership is widely recognized as important for school improvement and a significant tool for creating an effective teaching and learning environment. The British Council is committed to promoting and developing instructional leadershi... Read More about Developing Instructional Leadership in Tanzania: Impact of a British Council Initiative.

How international are sociology journals? – Analysis of aims, editorial boards and gatekeeper networks (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HORDOSY, R., Brown, E., & Vega Castillo, M. A. (2023, April). How international are sociology journals? – Analysis of aims, editorial boards and gatekeeper networks. Presented at British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Manchester

Academic prestige is conceptualised differently based on national context; yet internationally, the notion of "excellence" permeates the global discourse on knowledge production. A knowledge hierarchy has long been present within the academic communi... Read More about How international are sociology journals? – Analysis of aims, editorial boards and gatekeeper networks.

Sociology students' perceptions of themselves within the discipline - an international comparative analysis (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hordosy, R., & Norris, J. (2023, April). Sociology students' perceptions of themselves within the discipline - an international comparative analysis. Presented at BSA Annual Conference 2023: Sociological Voices in Public Discourse, Manchester, UK

This paper looks at how sociology students at several different universities in three countries see their discipline and themselves within it. It draws on the Bernstein’s notion of powerful knowledge that disrupts inequalities, as well as Burawoy’s u... Read More about Sociology students' perceptions of themselves within the discipline - an international comparative analysis.

Towards a speech–gesture profile of pragmatic markers: The case of “you know” (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., & Adolphs, S. (2023). Towards a speech–gesture profile of pragmatic markers: The case of “you know”. Journal of Pragmatics, 210, 36-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.03.004

Our study introduces a novel approach for examining the functional relationship between the pragmatic marker “you know” and its co-occurring gestures. It draws on 401 instances of “you know” identified in the Nottingham Multimodal Corpus. Based on th... Read More about Towards a speech–gesture profile of pragmatic markers: The case of “you know”.

Do All Children Have the Right to Express Views? : Listening to ‘Differently Voiced’ Communicators (2023)
Book Chapter
Doak, L. (2023). Do All Children Have the Right to Express Views? : Listening to ‘Differently Voiced’ Communicators. In A. E. Beckett, & A. Callus (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights and Disability (281-299). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003056737-22

It is now internationally accepted that children have the ‘right to express views’, but detailed discussion is needed of how this right can be realised in practice for children with complex communication needs. This chapter explores some of the issue... Read More about Do All Children Have the Right to Express Views? : Listening to ‘Differently Voiced’ Communicators.