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‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges (2014)
Journal Article
Thomson, P. (2014). ‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges. Critical Studies in Education, 55(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2014.863221

Educational policy-makers around the world are strongly committed to the notion of ‘scaling up’. This can mean anything from encouraging more teachers to take up a pedagogical innovation, all the way through to system-wide efforts to implement ‘what... Read More about ‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges.

Collaborative approaches in initial teacher education: lessons from approaches to developing student teachers’ use of the Internet in science teaching (2014)
Journal Article
Sorensen, P., Twidle, J., & Childs, A. (2014). Collaborative approaches in initial teacher education: lessons from approaches to developing student teachers’ use of the Internet in science teaching. Teacher Development, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13664530.2013.878378

In many countries, governments are keen to persuade teachers at all levels to seek to enhance the learning of their students by incorporating information and communication technologies within their classrooms. This paper reports on the development of... Read More about Collaborative approaches in initial teacher education: lessons from approaches to developing student teachers’ use of the Internet in science teaching.

Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy sessions (2014)
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Murphy, D., & Cramer, D. (2014). Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy sessions. Psychotherapy Research, 24(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2013.874051

Abstract Objective: Research on the effects of Rogers’s therapeutic relationship conditions has typically focused on the unilateral provision of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence from therapist to client. Method: This study look... Read More about Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy sessions.

Assessing mathematical problem solving using comparative judgement (2014)
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Jones, I., Swan, M., & Pollitt, A. (2014). Assessing mathematical problem solving using comparative judgement. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-013-9497-6

There is an increasing demand from employers and universities for school leavers to be able to apply their mathematical knowledge to problem solving in varied and unfamiliar contexts. These aspects are however neglected in most examinations of mathem... Read More about Assessing mathematical problem solving using comparative judgement.

“By ones and twos and tens”: pedagogies of possibility for democratizing higher education (2014)
Journal Article
Amsler, S. (in press). “By ones and twos and tens”: pedagogies of possibility for democratizing higher education. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2013.852614

This paper concerns the relationship between teaching and political action both within and outside formal educational institutions. Its setting is the recent period following the 2010 Browne Review on the funding of higher education in England. Rathe... Read More about “By ones and twos and tens”: pedagogies of possibility for democratizing higher education.

Effects of collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples on the acquisition of mathematical argumentation skills of teacher students with different levels of prior achievement (2014)
Journal Article
Kollar, I., Ufer, S., Reichersdorfer, E., Vogel, F., Fischer, F., & Reiss, K. (2014). Effects of collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples on the acquisition of mathematical argumentation skills of teacher students with different levels of prior achievement. Learning and Instruction, 32, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2014.01.003

A challenging demand for mathematics teacher students is to produce acceptable scientific mathematical argumentations. We investigated to what extent mathematics teacher students with different levels of prior achievement who collaborated in dyads ca... Read More about Effects of collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples on the acquisition of mathematical argumentation skills of teacher students with different levels of prior achievement.

The lost honour of the social dimension: Bologna, exports and the idea of the university (2014)
Journal Article
Holford, J. (2014). The lost honour of the social dimension: Bologna, exports and the idea of the university. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2013.873210

In important respects, European ideas of the university have spread across the world. The principal ‘philosophical’ statements on which this idea of the university is based (Humboldt and Newman) assumed the people inhabiting universities — as student... Read More about The lost honour of the social dimension: Bologna, exports and the idea of the university.

Popular culture, participation and progression in the literacy classroom (2014)
Journal Article
Parry, B. (2014). Popular culture, participation and progression in the literacy classroom. Literacy, 48(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12027

In this paper, I share an account of what happens when a teacher values children's experiences of popular culture in a classroom activity. Drawing on a socio-cultural approach to learning, I suggest that children are not simply enthused when their li... Read More about Popular culture, participation and progression in the literacy classroom.

Pre-service teachers undertaking classroom research: developing reflection and enquiry skills (2014)
Journal Article
Medwell, J., & Wray, D. (2014). Pre-service teachers undertaking classroom research: developing reflection and enquiry skills. Journal of Education for Teaching, 40(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2013.864018

This paper reports on the development of reflectiveness and research skills in eight preservice teachers, through their participation in a funded research project to develop the handwriting of children with literacy problems. The project aimed to ana... Read More about Pre-service teachers undertaking classroom research: developing reflection and enquiry skills.