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Making pupils fit the framework: Research into the implementation of the National Curriculum in schools for pupils with moderate learning difficulties, focusing on Key Stage 4 (1996)
Journal Article
Costley, D. (1996). Making pupils fit the framework: Research into the implementation of the National Curriculum in schools for pupils with moderate learning difficulties, focusing on Key Stage 4. School Leadership and Management, 16(3), 341-354. https://doi.org/10.1080/0260136960160308

The introduction of a National Curriculum in England and Wales caused a dilemma for many teachers who were responsible for pupils with learning difficulties. The issue of an entitlement curriculum for all pupils raised fundamental questions about the... Read More about Making pupils fit the framework: Research into the implementation of the National Curriculum in schools for pupils with moderate learning difficulties, focusing on Key Stage 4.

On Becoming a Tutor: Toward an Ontogenetic Model (1995)
Journal Article
Wood, D., Wood, H., Ainsworth, S., & O’Malley, C. (1995). On Becoming a Tutor: Toward an Ontogenetic Model. Cognition and Instruction, 13(4), 565-581. https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532690xci1304_7

Eight pairs of girls and 8 pairs of boys at each of three age groups (3, 5, and 7 years) took part in a three-phase investigation. One child in each pair was taught how to assemble a construction task by a computer-assisted tutoring system. That chil... Read More about On Becoming a Tutor: Toward an Ontogenetic Model.

Education and development in Africa: lessons of the past 50 years for beyond 2015
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGrath, S. Education and development in Africa: lessons of the past 50 years for beyond 2015. Presented at CAS@50

As we move to discuss the nature of development targets post 2015, it is timely to consider what lessons can be learnt from 50 years of experiences of attempts to link education and development in Africa. This paper offers a historical account of key... Read More about Education and development in Africa: lessons of the past 50 years for beyond 2015.

Challenging the vocational education and training for development orthodoxy
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGrath, S. Challenging the vocational education and training for development orthodoxy. Presented at HAVE Seminar

The orthodox account of vocational education and training for development is firmly based in Neoliberal assumptions about the primacy of the economic. Yet, there are a range of alternative accounts of development, receiving increasing attention, tha... Read More about Challenging the vocational education and training for development orthodoxy.

English: diverse but unified: putting texts at the heart of the discipline
Journal Article
Clark, B., Giovanelli, M., & Macrae, A. (in press). English: diverse but unified: putting texts at the heart of the discipline. Teaching English in the Two-Year College,

Billy Clark, Marcello Giovanelli and Andrea Macrae argue that ‘language and literature’ points the way towards a coherent vision of English, both at school and at university, as a unified but diverse subject encompassing literature, language, drama,... Read More about English: diverse but unified: putting texts at the heart of the discipline.

Developing student questioning when problem solving: the role of sample student responses
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Evans, S., & Swan, M. Developing student questioning when problem solving: the role of sample student responses. Presented at 9th Congress of European Research in Mathematics Education (CERME9)

This paper describes intervention resources designed to provide opportunities for student self-regulation, with a particular focus on setting subgoals when problem solving. Each task includes a range of pre-written interrelated “sample student respon... Read More about Developing student questioning when problem solving: the role of sample student responses.

Education and development: thirty years of continuity and change
Journal Article
McGrath, S. Education and development: thirty years of continuity and change. International Journal of Educational Development, 30(6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2010.04.004

At the end of the thirtieth volume of IJED and in the year that the journal published its 1000th paper, it is appropriate to look back at the journal’s development. In so doing, this article will discuss a series of important issues regarding the fu... Read More about Education and development: thirty years of continuity and change.

"Ordinary people only": knowledge, representativeness and the publics of public participation in healthcare
Journal Article
Martin, G. P. "Ordinary people only": knowledge, representativeness and the publics of public participation in healthcare. Sociology of Health and Illness, 30(1),

Public involvement in healthcare is a prominent policy in countries across the economically developed world. A growing body of academic literature has focused on public participation, often presenting dichotomies between good and bad practice: betwe... Read More about "Ordinary people only": knowledge, representativeness and the publics of public participation in healthcare.