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Conceptualising transformative undergraduate experiences: A phenomenographic exploration of students’ personal projects (2016)
Journal Article
Ashwin, P., Abbas, A., & McLean, M. (2016). Conceptualising transformative undergraduate experiences: A phenomenographic exploration of students’ personal projects. British Educational Research Journal, 42(6), 962-977. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3244

© 2016 The Authors. British Educational Research Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Educational Research Association. Existing ways of understanding the transformative potential of students’ undergraduate experiences ei... Read More about Conceptualising transformative undergraduate experiences: A phenomenographic exploration of students’ personal projects.

Rebels against the system: leadership agency and curriculum innovation in the context of school autonomy and accountability in England (2016)
Journal Article
Greany, T., & Waterhouse, J. (2016). Rebels against the system: leadership agency and curriculum innovation in the context of school autonomy and accountability in England. International Journal of Educational Management, 30(7), 1188-1206. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijem-11-2015-0148

Purpose – This paper describes and analyses the development of school autonomy, school leadership and curriculum innovation in England over the past forty years. It provides a baseline picture for the wider international study on school autonomy and... Read More about Rebels against the system: leadership agency and curriculum innovation in the context of school autonomy and accountability in England.

The misuses of sustainability: adult education, citizenship and the dead hand of neoliberalism (2016)
Journal Article
Holford, J. (2016). The misuses of sustainability: adult education, citizenship and the dead hand of neoliberalism. International Review of Education, 62(5), 541-561. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-016-9591-4

‘‘Sustainability’’ has a captivating but disingenuous simplicity: its meanings are complex, and have political and policy significance. Exploring the application of the term to adult education, this paper argues that a particular discourse of ‘‘susta... Read More about The misuses of sustainability: adult education, citizenship and the dead hand of neoliberalism.

Technology and the dis-placing of learning in educational futures (2016)
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Crook, C., & Bligh, B. (2016). Technology and the dis-placing of learning in educational futures. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 11, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2016.09.001

Common visions of online education entail radically re-configuring the experience of learning: a technological displacement from the spatial order of classrooms into the more diffuse arena of digital networks. One assumption seems to be that the very... Read More about Technology and the dis-placing of learning in educational futures.

Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?: a report from the Formative Assessment Working Group (2015 ISDDE conference) (2016)
Journal Article
Evans, S., & Ayalon, M. (2016). Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?: a report from the Formative Assessment Working Group (2015 ISDDE conference)

This paper introduces the use of pre-designed student responses to unstructured mathematics problems as a possible resource for teachers to develop their capacity of acting contingently in the mathematics classroom in a productive way, whilst teachin... Read More about Can designed student responses support teachers to interact with students in a productive way?: a report from the Formative Assessment Working Group (2015 ISDDE conference).

Transforming engagement: a case study of building intrinsic motivation in a child with autism (2016)
Journal Article
Emerson, A., & Dearden, J. (2017). Transforming engagement: a case study of building intrinsic motivation in a child with autism. British Journal of Special Education, 44(1), 8-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8578.12137

This longitudinal case study of 10 year old girl with autism and severe communication impairment measures the impact of the MORE (Means, Opportunities, Reasons and Expectations) approach to enhancing engagement and communication proposed by Emerson a... Read More about Transforming engagement: a case study of building intrinsic motivation in a child with autism.

Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2016)
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Thondhlana, J., Madziva, R., & McGrath, S. (in press). Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK. Sociological Review, 64(3), 575-592. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12373

In this paper we focus on highly skilled migration from Zimbabwe to the UK, exploring these migrants’ social capital sources/structures and content. In doing so we pay attention to routes of migration and how they shape migrants’ networking capabilit... Read More about Negotiating employability: migrant capitals and networking strategies for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK.

The role of adult education and learning policy in fostering societal sustainability (2016)
Journal Article
Milana, M., Rasmussen, P., & Holford, J. (2016). The role of adult education and learning policy in fostering societal sustainability. International Review of Education, 62(5), 523-540. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-016-9588-z

The idea of “sustainability” as a core value has slowly permeated policy and practice at governmental and institutional levels, in public and private policy. However, at times when social and economic crises have revealed the fragility of existing in... Read More about The role of adult education and learning policy in fostering societal sustainability.

Readers building fictional worlds: visual representations, poetry and cognition (2016)
Journal Article
Giovanelli, M. (2017). Readers building fictional worlds: visual representations, poetry and cognition. Literacy, 51(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12091

This article explores the complex nature of the literature classroom by drawing on the cognitive linguistic framework Text World Theory to examine the teacher's role as facilitator and mediator of reading. Specifically, the article looks at how one t... Read More about Readers building fictional worlds: visual representations, poetry and cognition.