All Outputs (21)

Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden (2024)
Journal Article

The concept of belonging has grown in prominence in research and policy relating to new arrivals from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds. Arguably, belonging is replacing integration and inclusion as the panacea to perceived problems associated w... Read More about Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden.

Refugees' gendered experiences of education in Europe since 2015: A scoping review (2023)
Journal Article

This scoping review aims to explore the role of gender in refugees' educational access, experiences, and outcomes in Europe since 2015. Gender can act as a significant barrier to education, and gender stereotypes and bias can affect learning opportun... Read More about Refugees' gendered experiences of education in Europe since 2015: A scoping review.

Refugee education: A critical visual analysis (2023)
Journal Article

Refugee education has become an issue of national and international concern as the numbers of refugees rise globally. In a world where global issues such as forced migration are communicated and consumed through the visual mode, understanding how dis... Read More about Refugee education: A critical visual analysis.

Gendered experiences of refugee education in Europe: a scoping review protocol (2023)
Report

This scoping review aims to explore the role of gender in refugees' education access, experiences, and outcomes in Europe since 2015. Gender can act as a significant barrier to education, and gender stereotypes and bias can affect learning opportunit... Read More about Gendered experiences of refugee education in Europe: a scoping review protocol.

The Hub for Education for Refugees in Europe Knowledge Base: Technical Report and Framework (2023)
Report

The Hub for Education for Refugees in Europe (HERE) provides a central reference point for information relating to refugee education throughout Europe in the form of a curated, searchable database of academic and non-academic resources on refugee edu... Read More about The Hub for Education for Refugees in Europe Knowledge Base: Technical Report and Framework.

Making a place for refugee education: routes towards meaningful inclusion for refugee teenagers in ‘new-normal’ England (2023)
Book Chapter

Learning to think, perform and act with integrity: does teacher education have a signature pedagogy, and why does this matter? (2023)
Journal Article

Unprecedented reform to teacher education in England, through the Initial Teacher Training Market Review, led to the threat of removal of the right for established providers to offer programmes of initial teacher education beyond 2024 without reaccre... Read More about Learning to think, perform and act with integrity: does teacher education have a signature pedagogy, and why does this matter?.

Teacher education policy making during the pandemic: shifting values underpinning change in England? (2021)
Journal Article

This paper examines how the policy process around initial teacher education (ITE) during the pandemic of 2020 was experienced by the leaders of ITE programmes across England.Education policies,it is argued, are solutions to perceived problems, reveal... Read More about Teacher education policy making during the pandemic: shifting values underpinning change in England?.

Theorising policy and practice in refugee education: Conceptualising ‘safety’, ‘belonging’, ‘success’ and ‘participatory parity’ in England and Sweden (2021)
Journal Article

Across the world, children are forced to leave their homes for far-flung destinations. This global phenomenon has particular impact in Europe, where there are now more child refugees than since World War II. Education plays an important role for chil... Read More about Theorising policy and practice in refugee education: Conceptualising ‘safety’, ‘belonging’, ‘success’ and ‘participatory parity’ in England and Sweden.

Teacher training bursaries in England: an analysis of their impact on the quantity and quality of trainees (2019)
Report

Barriers to the inclusion of refugee and asylum-seeking children in schools in England (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 Educational Review. This article reports a study of the barriers faced by headteachers seeking to include young asylum seekers and refugees into secondary schools in England. We trace the new discourses and assemblages of authority cre... Read More about Barriers to the inclusion of refugee and asylum-seeking children in schools in England.

Participatory parity in schooling and moves towards ordinariness: a comparison of refugee education policy and practice in England and Sweden (2018)
Journal Article

Within the current global refugee crisis this paper emphasises the fundamental role of education in facilitating the integration of young new arrivals. It argues that a humanitarian crisis of such scale requires a commensurate humanitarian response i... Read More about Participatory parity in schooling and moves towards ordinariness: a comparison of refugee education policy and practice in England and Sweden.

Restructuring teacher education in the UK: Insights into the future (2018)
Book Chapter

Silenced voices: the disappearance of the university and the student teacher in teacher education policy discourse in England (2017)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The teacher preparation landscape in England has been subject to radical policy change. Since 2010, the policy agenda has repositioned initial teacher preparation as a craft best... Read More about Silenced voices: the disappearance of the university and the student teacher in teacher education policy discourse in England.

Connecting community through film in ITE English (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter offers a critical exploration of the work of beginning teachers of secondary English at the University of Nottingham, who have been involved, alongside their own pupils, in a series of film-making projects which have taken place annually... Read More about Connecting community through film in ITE English.

Revealing the community within: valuing the role of local community structures within evidence-based school intervention programmes (2016)
Journal Article

Schools and the families they serve are sometimes perceived as deficient and in need of fixing. One response has been the implementation of evidence-based family intervention programmes, which may be highly regulated and prescriptive as a condition o... Read More about Revealing the community within: valuing the role of local community structures within evidence-based school intervention programmes.

Riots and a blank canvas: young people creating texts, creating spaces (2016)
Journal Article

This article draws on research into the work of Greenshoots,1 a small company of creative practitioners who provide opportunities for young people to work on projects involving visual and creative practices with a strong link to local heritage. Two s... Read More about Riots and a blank canvas: young people creating texts, creating spaces.

Poverty, schooling, and beginning teachers who make a difference: a case study from England (2016)
Book Chapter

Education policy makers in England have, over the last thirty years, radically changed schooling. The introduction of a national curriculum, national testing re-gimes, school inspections and school league tables has been at the heart of these changes... Read More about Poverty, schooling, and beginning teachers who make a difference: a case study from England.

Supporting beginner teacher identity development: external mentors and the third space (2015)
Journal Article

This paper reports findings from a study of support provided by non-school-based mentors of secondary science teachers in England. It focuses on the identity development of beginning teachers of physics, some of the recipients of the mentoring. Drawi... Read More about Supporting beginner teacher identity development: external mentors and the third space.

‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film (2014)
Journal Article

The lived experiences of young people are becoming increasingly marginalised within the narrowly defined curricula of neoliberal contexts. Many young people are also cast within the media according to deficit discourses of youth, which contributes to... Read More about ‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film.