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Professional vision in fashion design: practices and views of teachers and learners (2018)
Journal Article
Caruso, V., Cattaneo, A., Gurtner, J.-L., & Ainsworth, S. (2019). Professional vision in fashion design: practices and views of teachers and learners. Vocations and Learning, 12(1), 47–65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12186-018-09216-7

Professional vision is a key skill in visually-oriented professions, but its relevance to vocational education and training has only drawn limited attention from researchers. When educating fashion designers, professional vision is vital because prec... Read More about Professional vision in fashion design: practices and views of teachers and learners.

Social Identification, Widening Participation and Higher Education: Experiencing Similarity and Difference in an English Red Brick University (2018)
Journal Article
Clark, T., & Hordósy, R. (2019). Social Identification, Widening Participation and Higher Education: Experiencing Similarity and Difference in an English Red Brick University. Sociological Research Online, 24(3), 353-369. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418811971

© The Author(s) 2018. In 2012, the UK government introduced the National Scholarship Programme – a scheme that aimed to ensure that young people from families with low household incomes would not be discouraged from entry into higher education by inc... Read More about Social Identification, Widening Participation and Higher Education: Experiencing Similarity and Difference in an English Red Brick University.

Balancing the needs of policy and practice, while remaining authentic: an analysis of leadership and governance in three national school leadership colleges (2018)
Journal Article
Greany, T. (2018). Balancing the needs of policy and practice, while remaining authentic: an analysis of leadership and governance in three national school leadership colleges. Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, 20(2), 63-98. https://doi.org/10.16922/wje.20.2.5

The contribution that school leadership can make to school and teacher quality - and thereby to pupil learning - is widely recognised. Pressures on school leaders have increased in recent years, as a result of increased accountability and higher expe... Read More about Balancing the needs of policy and practice, while remaining authentic: an analysis of leadership and governance in three national school leadership colleges.

Perceived posttraumatic growth and depreciation after spinal cord injury: actual or illusory? (2018)
Journal Article
Kunz, S., Joseph, S., Greyhand, S., & Peter, C. (2018). Perceived posttraumatic growth and depreciation after spinal cord injury: actual or illusory?. Health Psychology, 38(1), 53-62. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000676

Objective: This study examined whether retrospective reports of posttraumatic growth (PTG) and depreciation (PTD) of individuals recently diagnosed with a spinal cord injury (SCI) coincide with prospectively measured changes in the conceptually close... Read More about Perceived posttraumatic growth and depreciation after spinal cord injury: actual or illusory?.

Critique and possibility in cultural sociology (2018)
Book Chapter
Weiss-Hanrahan, N., & Amsler, S. (2018). Critique and possibility in cultural sociology. In L. Grindstaff, M.-C. M. Lo, & J. R. Hall (Eds.), Routledge handbook of cultural sociology (64-72). Routledge

Critique and judgment were once regarded as the distinguishing features of an emancipatory social science, yet their role in the study of culture has become contested in recent years. Cultural sociologists became disenchanted with critical theory in... Read More about Critique and possibility in cultural sociology.

Thinking about the school most of the time: studio as generative metaphor for critical reflection (2018)
Journal Article
Thomson, P. (2019). Thinking about the school most of the time: studio as generative metaphor for critical reflection. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 51(2), 87-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2018.1536039

Busy leaders need time to reflect and renew. They need to consider the particularities of their school and the ways in which they can work with others in the school community to address pressing issues, as well as to make future plans. The metaphor o... Read More about Thinking about the school most of the time: studio as generative metaphor for critical reflection.

Transformative Pedagogy as Academic Performance: #ShimlaPark as a Plane of Immanence (2018)
Journal Article
Dick, L., Kruger, F., Müller, M., & Mockie, A. (2019). Transformative Pedagogy as Academic Performance: #ShimlaPark as a Plane of Immanence. Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, 19(2), 84-90. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708618807246

In this performative text, we explore the events that unfolded around the #ShimlaPark incident on February 22, 2016, on the Bloemfontein campus of the University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa. The text consists of four voices; that of a stude... Read More about Transformative Pedagogy as Academic Performance: #ShimlaPark as a Plane of Immanence.