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Democracy, Education, and a Politics of Indignation (2016)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2016). Democracy, Education, and a Politics of Indignation. In P. R. Carr, P. Thomas, B. J. Porfilio, & J. A. Gorlewski (Eds.), Democracy and Decency: What does Education have to do with it? (21-37). Information Age Publishing

Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society (2016)
Book Chapter
Amsler, S. (2016). Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society. In A. C. Dinerstein (Ed.), Social Sciences for an Other Politics: Women Theorizing Without Parachutes (19-32). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47776-3_2

© The Author(s) 2016. Drawing on the critical theories of Ernst Bloch and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, as well as on the knowledge and learning practices of counter-capitalist social movements, Amsler’s chapter offers a reading of political hopelessne... Read More about Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society.

The quality of learning, teaching and the curriculum (2016)
Book Chapter
McLean, M., & Ashwin, P. (2016). The quality of learning, teaching and the curriculum. In P. Scott, J. Gallacher, & G. Parry (Eds.), New languages and landscapes of higher education. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198787082.003.0004

This Chapter addresses three questions: What is good quality university teaching? How can it be achieved? How can it be assessed? To address these questions we start by making a case for a multi-dimensional, rich conceptualisation of teaching, drawi... Read More about The quality of learning, teaching and the curriculum.

Time travels in literacy and pedagogy: from script to screen (2016)
Book Chapter
Parry, B., Taylor, L., & Haerizadeh-Yazdi, N. (2016). Time travels in literacy and pedagogy: from script to screen. In B. Parry, C. Burnett, & G. Merchant (Eds.), Literacy, media, technology: past, present, future. Bloomsbury

Multi-modal opportunities with digital tools: the example of narrated photographs (2016)
Book Chapter
Crook, K., & Crook, C. (2016). Multi-modal opportunities with digital tools: the example of narrated photographs. In A. Marcus-Quinn, & T. Hourigan (Eds.), Handbook on digital learning for K-12 schools. Springer Science+Business Media

This paper explores recent encouragement to cultivate in students a sensitivity towards the ‘multi-modal’ nature of human communication. We consider what this means for educational practice and, in particular, how such an imperative might be addresse... Read More about Multi-modal opportunities with digital tools: the example of narrated photographs.

South-South development cooperation and the socio-spatial reconfiguration of Latin America-Caribbean regionalisms: university education in the Brazil-Venezuela ‘Special Border Regime’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Muhr, T. (2016). South-South development cooperation and the socio-spatial reconfiguration of Latin America-Caribbean regionalisms: university education in the Brazil-Venezuela ‘Special Border Regime’. In S. L. Robertson, K. Olds, R. Dale, & Q. A. Dang (Eds.), Global Regionalisms and Higher Education: Projects, Processes, Politics. Edward Elgar

This chapter approaches the changing geometries of Latin America–Caribbean regionalisms through the lens of South-South cooperation and the role of university education in the construction of a Brazil–Venezuela cross-border sub-region termed ‘Special... Read More about South-South development cooperation and the socio-spatial reconfiguration of Latin America-Caribbean regionalisms: university education in the Brazil-Venezuela ‘Special Border Regime’.

For love of people, culture and society: expert commentary (2016)
Book Chapter
McLean, M., LeFanu, S., & Bruce, S. (2016). For love of people, culture and society: expert commentary. In K. M. Quinlan (Ed.), How higher education feels: commentaries on poems that illuminate emotions in learning and teaching. Sense Publishers

The commentary is on a set of poems about the teaching of social sciences and sensitive topics. It takes the poems as pedagogical case studies, pointing out what can be learning from them.

A capabilities approach to educating the deliberate professional: theory and practice (2016)
Book Chapter
McLean, M., & Walker, M. (2016). A capabilities approach to educating the deliberate professional: theory and practice. In F. Trede, & C. McEwan (Eds.), Educating the deliberate professional: preparing for future practices. Springer International Publishing

This chapter casts ‘deliberate professionalism’ as ‘public-good professionalism’. It brings to thinking about educating the deliberate professional a ‘capabilities approach’ lens, as it has been developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. The autho... Read More about A capabilities approach to educating the deliberate professional: theory and practice.

Poverty, schooling, and beginning teachers who make a difference: a case study from England (2016)
Book Chapter
McIntyre, J., & Thomson, P. (2016). Poverty, schooling, and beginning teachers who make a difference: a case study from England. In J. Lampert, & B. Burnett (Eds.), Teacher education in high poverty schools. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22059-8_9

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.