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The rhetoric of multi-display learning spaces: exploratory experiences in visual art discipines (2010)
Journal Article
Bligh, B., & Lorenz, K. (2010). The rhetoric of multi-display learning spaces: exploratory experiences in visual art discipines. Seminar.net, 6(1),

Brett Bligh and Katharina Lorenz of The University of Nottingham, present the Multi-Display Learning Spaces (MD-LS) in this article. It comprises technologies to allow the viewing of multiple simultaneous visual materials, modes of learning which enc... Read More about The rhetoric of multi-display learning spaces: exploratory experiences in visual art discipines.

Vorsprung durch Technik: multi-display learning spaces and art-historical method (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Bligh, B., & Lorenz, K. (2010). Vorsprung durch Technik: multi-display learning spaces and art-historical method.

The trajectory and heuristic success of Art History as a discipline has always been inseparably linked to the technical means of visualizing the material that is at its core. When in the late 19th century first analogous, then double-slide projection... Read More about Vorsprung durch Technik: multi-display learning spaces and art-historical method.

The role of education in development: an educationalist’s response to some recent work in development economics (2010)
Journal Article
McGrath, S. (2010). The role of education in development: an educationalist’s response to some recent work in development economics. Comparative Education, 46(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/03050061003775553

This paper delves beneath the widespread belief that education (often repackaged as human capital) is important in development to consider the role that the discipline of education plays in shaping the wider discourses of development. In particular,... Read More about The role of education in development: an educationalist’s response to some recent work in development economics.

The pragmatics of education journals: the case of the International Journal of Educational Development (2010)
Journal Article
McGrath, S., & Mason, M. (2010). The pragmatics of education journals: the case of the International Journal of Educational Development

This article discusses some of the pragmatics and politics of academic journal publishing within the context of the contemporary higher education and publishing political economy. The case of the International Journal of Educational Development(IJED)... Read More about The pragmatics of education journals: the case of the International Journal of Educational Development.

Investigating participation in Advanced level mathematics: a study of student drop out (2009)
Journal Article
Noyes, A., & Sealey, P. (2009). Investigating participation in Advanced level mathematics: a study of student drop out. Research Papers in Education, 27(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/02671520903288885

There has for some years been a growing concern about participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England and across the developed world. Extensive statistical analyses present the decline but offer little to help us understand the cau... Read More about Investigating participation in Advanced level mathematics: a study of student drop out.

Exploring social patterns of participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England (2009)
Journal Article
Noyes, A. (2009). Exploring social patterns of participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England. Research in Mathematics Education, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/14794800903063356

In recent years in England there has been considerable attention given to a range of apparent crises in mathematics education, one of which has been the long term decline of participation in university-entrance level (Advanced or A) mathematics. Giv... Read More about Exploring social patterns of participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England.

Reconfiguring or reproducing intra-professional boundaries? Specialist expertise, generalist knowledge and the ‘modernization’ of the medical workforce (2009)
Journal Article
Martin, G. P., Currie, G., & Finn, R. (2009). Reconfiguring or reproducing intra-professional boundaries? Specialist expertise, generalist knowledge and the ‘modernization’ of the medical workforce. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.01.006

Efforts to ‘modernize’ the clinical workforce of the English National Health Service have sought to reconfigure the responsibilities of professional groups in pursuit of more effective, joined-up service provision. Such efforts have met resistance f... Read More about Reconfiguring or reproducing intra-professional boundaries? Specialist expertise, generalist knowledge and the ‘modernization’ of the medical workforce.

Localisation of the e-Educator module: the Malaysian experience (2009)
Journal Article
Thang, S. M., & Joyes, G. (2009). Localisation of the e-Educator module: the Malaysian experience. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 10(2),

The University of Nottingham, UK and Beijing Foreign Studies University, China developed a module for training tutors of online learners - one that could be adapted for use in a variety of contexts. The module was piloted at the School of Distance Ed... Read More about Localisation of the e-Educator module: the Malaysian experience.