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Teacher knowledge for modelling and problem solving (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Wake, G., Foster, C., & Swan, M. (2014). Teacher knowledge for modelling and problem solving.

This article reports on a study that has researched teacher professional learning in lesson study communities that enquired into how we might better support students develop skills in problem solving and mathematical modelling. A rationale for profes... Read More about Teacher knowledge for modelling and problem solving.

Science engagement and literacy: a retrospective analysis for students in Canada and Australia (2014)
Journal Article
Woods-McConney, A., Oliver, M., McConney, A., Schibeci, R., & Maor, D. (2014). Science engagement and literacy: a retrospective analysis for students in Canada and Australia. International Journal of Science Education, 36(10), https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2013.871658

Given international concerns about students’ pursuit (or more correctly, non-pursuit) of courses and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), this study is about achieving a better understanding of factors related to high s... Read More about Science engagement and literacy: a retrospective analysis for students in Canada and Australia.

Adult education and lifelong learning in postcommunist countries (2014)
Journal Article
Špolar, V. M., Holford, J., & Milana, M. (2014). Adult education and lifelong learning in postcommunist countries. European Education, 46(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2014.995532

The Rising ‘China Model’ of Educational Cooperation with Africa (2013)
Book Chapter
Yuan, T. (2013). The Rising ‘China Model’ of Educational Cooperation with Africa. In S. Majhanovich, & M. A. Geo-JaJa (Eds.), Economics, Aid and Education (183-198). Rotterdam: SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-365-2_12

Globalization and the economic growth of some developing countries are not new issues. Moreover, when globalization takes the form of a knowledge-based economy, education is increasingly becoming a crucial factor in the contemporary neo-liberal marke... Read More about The Rising ‘China Model’ of Educational Cooperation with Africa.

An e-maturity analysis explains intention–behavior disjunctions in technology adoption in UK schools (2013)
Journal Article
Harrison, C., Tomás, C., & Crook, C. (2014). An e-maturity analysis explains intention–behavior disjunctions in technology adoption in UK schools. Computers in Human Behavior, 34, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.10.042

This paper addresses the problem of non-significant intention–behavior effects in educational technology adoption, based on a reanalysis of data from the Impact09 project, a UK-government funded evaluation of technology use in high schools in England... Read More about An e-maturity analysis explains intention–behavior disjunctions in technology adoption in UK schools.

Neoliberalism, education and citizenship rights of unemployed youth in post-apartheid South Africa (2013)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. (2013). Neoliberalism, education and citizenship rights of unemployed youth in post-apartheid South Africa. Sisyphus — Journal of Education, 1(2), 194-212. https://doi.org/10.25749/sis.3635

Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning teachers of English in times of change (2013)
Journal Article
McIntyre, J., & Jones, S. (2014). Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning teachers of English in times of change. English in Education, 48(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/eie.12029

Beginning teachers of English are entering a profession in which their subject is increasingly framed according to prescriptive models of literacy. This is happening at a time of shift away from university ITE provision towards schoolled training. We... Read More about Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning teachers of English in times of change.

Representations of a high-quality system of undergraduate education in English higher education policy documents (2013)
Journal Article
Ashwin, P., Abbas, A., & McLean, M. (2015). Representations of a high-quality system of undergraduate education in English higher education policy documents. Studies in Higher Education, 40(4), 610-623. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2013.842211

This article examines the ways in which a high-quality system of undergraduate education is represented in recent policy documents from a range of actors interested in higher education. Drawing on Basil Bernstein's ideas, the authors conceptualise th... Read More about Representations of a high-quality system of undergraduate education in English higher education policy documents.

Exploring feedback and student characteristics relevant for personalizing feedback strategies (2013)
Journal Article
Narciss, S., Sosnovsky, S., Schnaubert, L., Andrès, E., Eichelmann, A., Goguadze, G., & Melis, E. (2014). Exploring feedback and student characteristics relevant for personalizing feedback strategies. Computers and Education, 71, 56-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2013.09.011

Personalized tutoring feedback is a powerful method that expert human tutors apply when helping students to optimize their learning. Thus, research on tutoring feedback strategies tailoring feedback according to important factors of the learning proc... Read More about Exploring feedback and student characteristics relevant for personalizing feedback strategies.

Children, film and literacy (2013)
Book
Parry, B. (2013). Children, film and literacy. Palgrave Macmillan

Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and unfamiliar, fantasy and everyday narratives and this narr... Read More about Children, film and literacy.