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Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe (2023)
Book
Holford, J., Boyadjieva, P., Clancy, S., Hefler, G., & Studená, I. (Eds.). (2023). Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14109-6

Presents the results of a trans-European research project. Provides innovative insights into EU policy processes and their outcomes. Includes contributions from leading scholars in the field.

Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers (2023)
Book
Little, G., Sharp, E., Stevenson, H., & Wilson, D. (2023). Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers. Pluto Press

The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists organising in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a renewed recognition of this essential fact is behind the 'turn to organising' in the union movement today. This... Read More about Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers.

Rethinking the contributions of young people with learning disabilities to iPad storymaking: a new model of distributed authorship (2023)
Journal Article
Doak, L. (2023). Rethinking the contributions of young people with learning disabilities to iPad storymaking: a new model of distributed authorship. Literacy, 57(3), 315-326. https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12317

Digital technologies such as iPads are now ubiquitous in classrooms and family homes, enabling new possibilities for all learners but particularly for those with disabilities. Existing literature explores how children with learning disabilities creat... Read More about Rethinking the contributions of young people with learning disabilities to iPad storymaking: a new model of distributed authorship.

Mapping mathematical competences across subjects for advanced level qualifications in England (2023)
Journal Article
Norris, J., & Noyes, A. (2023). Mapping mathematical competences across subjects for advanced level qualifications in England. Curriculum Journal, 34(4), 613-632. https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.204

Efforts to increase the number of young people in England studying mathematics post‐16 have historically focused on participation in standalone mathematics qualifications. However, following the recent A‐level reforms, many advanced level students ar... Read More about Mapping mathematical competences across subjects for advanced level qualifications in England.

Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding (2023)
Journal Article
Hayes, D., Camacho, E. M., Ronaldson, A., Stepanian, K., McPhilbin, M., Elliott, R. A., …Slade, M. (2024). Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 59, 759-768. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02452-w

Purpose Recovery Colleges (RCs) have been implemented across England with wide variation in organisational characteristics. The purpose of this study is to describe RCs across England in terms of organisational and student characteristics, fidelit... Read More about Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding.

Effect of visual presentation of atherosclerotic carotid plaque on adherence to secondary preventive therapy using mHealth technologies (PreventiPlaque app): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2023)
Journal Article
Ullrich, G., Dönmez, A., Mahabadi, A. A., Bäuerle, A., Knuschke, R., Paldán, K., …Julia Lortz. (2023). Effect of visual presentation of atherosclerotic carotid plaque on adherence to secondary preventive therapy using mHealth technologies (PreventiPlaque app): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Heliyon, 9(3), Article e14052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14052

Background: Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of death worldwide. Although knowledge regarding diagnosing and treating cardiovascular disease has increased dramatically, secondary prevention remains insufficiently implemented due to failure a... Read More about Effect of visual presentation of atherosclerotic carotid plaque on adherence to secondary preventive therapy using mHealth technologies (PreventiPlaque app): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Reflecting on the use of freedom of information requests in mental health research (2023)
Journal Article
Archard, P. J., Tangen, J., Giles, E., Lucas, S., Moore, I., O'Reilly, M., & Murphy, D. (2023). Reflecting on the use of freedom of information requests in mental health research. Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 23(3), 80-92. https://doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v23i3.1985

Freedom of information (FoI) legislation has been represented as a valuable but underused means of generating otherwise unavailable data from public authorities in health and social care research. This article complements extant literature on the use... Read More about Reflecting on the use of freedom of information requests in mental health research.

Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life (2023)
Book
Thomson, P., & Hall, C. (2023). Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life. Routledge

‘Why study the arts at school?’ This book offers a fresh perspective on this question. Informed by rigorous research, the book argues that the arts help young people to develop key skills, knowledge and practices that support them to become both crit... Read More about Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life.

Understanding secondary school students' agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon (2023)
Journal Article
Zhao, T., Xu, Y., Yu, Y., & Liu, Z. (2023). Understanding secondary school students' agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2023.2179870

This article investigates students’ post-secondary education transition processes in Cameroon through the lens of agency. Situated in a country where the higher education participation rate is fairly low, our article explores how students agentically... Read More about Understanding secondary school students' agentic negotiation strategies in accessing higher education in Cameroon.

Practitioners' perspectives on spatial reasoning in educational practice from birth to 7 years (2023)
Journal Article
Bates, K. E., Williams, A. Y., Gilligan-Lee, K. A., Gripton, C., Lancaster, A., Williams, H., …Farran, E. K. (2023). Practitioners' perspectives on spatial reasoning in educational practice from birth to 7 years. British Journal of Educational Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12579

Background: There is a growing evidence base for the importance of spatial reasoning for the development of mathematics. However, the extent to which this translates into practice is unknown. Aims: We aimed to understand practitioners' perspectives o... Read More about Practitioners' perspectives on spatial reasoning in educational practice from birth to 7 years.

Polyvocal Poetic Play Through Self-study Research: Challenging the Status Quo to Improve Professional Practice (2023)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Samaras, A. P. (2023). Polyvocal Poetic Play Through Self-study Research: Challenging the Status Quo to Improve Professional Practice. In H. Mreiwed, M. R. Carter, S. Hashem, & C. H. Blake-Amarante (Eds.), Making Connections in and Through Arts-Based Educational Research (227-239). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8028-2_17

In self-study research, numerous approaches are used, including collaboratively creative poetic inquiry. In this chapter, two teacher educators and self-study scholars consider how their polyvocal poetic play has helped challenge the status quo of me... Read More about Polyvocal Poetic Play Through Self-study Research: Challenging the Status Quo to Improve Professional Practice.

The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis – A Kuhnian analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Pearson, M., Rennick-Egglestone, S., & Winship, G. (2023). The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis – A Kuhnian analysis. Nursing Philosophy, 24(4), Article e12418. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12418

The philosophy of Thomas Kuhn proposes that scientific progress involves periods of crisis and revolution in which previous paradigms are discarded and replaced. Revolutions in how mental health problems are conceptualised have had a substantial impa... Read More about The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis – A Kuhnian analysis.

The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis: A Kuhnian analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Pearson, M., Egglestone, S. R., & Winship, G. (2023). The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis: A Kuhnian analysis. Nursing Philosophy, 24(4), Article e12418. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12418

The philosophy of Thomas Kuhn proposes that scientific progress involves periods of crisis and revolution in which previous paradigms are discarded and replaced. Revolutions in how mental health problems are conceptualised have had a substantial impa... Read More about The biological paradigm of psychosis in crisis: A Kuhnian analysis.

Self-Discovery and Healing in Nepantla: Multimodality and Learning by Design in a Mixed Spanish University Classroom (2023)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. C. (2023). Self-Discovery and Healing in Nepantla: Multimodality and Learning by Design in a Mixed Spanish University Classroom. International Journal of Pedagogy and Curriculum, 30(1), 17-35. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-7963/CGP/v30i01/17-35

This article explores the enactment of inclusive pedagogical practices in an intermediate, Spanish-as-a-secondlanguage mixed writing class in an R1 university in Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, this work examines how the use of auth... Read More about Self-Discovery and Healing in Nepantla: Multimodality and Learning by Design in a Mixed Spanish University Classroom.

Teacher self-efficacy and pupil achievement: much ado about nothing? International evidence from TIMSS (2023)
Journal Article
Jerrim, J., Sims, S., & Oliver, M. (2023). Teacher self-efficacy and pupil achievement: much ado about nothing? International evidence from TIMSS. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 29(2), 220-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2022.2159365

Bandura’s influential theory has been used to argue that teachers with high self-efficacy will be more effective at increasing pupil achievement—and a voluminous empirical literature has repeatedly documented associations consistent with this claim.... Read More about Teacher self-efficacy and pupil achievement: much ado about nothing? International evidence from TIMSS.

When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, C., & Xu, Y. (2023). When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play. Childhood, 30(2), 177–193. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682231151848

This study employs a poststructuralist theoretical framework to explore parents’ attitudes towards children’s right to play in Shanghai, China. It adopted mixed methods of online questionnaires (N = 880) and semi-structured interviews (N = 11). The f... Read More about When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play.