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The rhetoric of multi-display learning spaces: exploratory experiences in visual art discipines (2010)
Journal Article
Bligh, B., & Lorenz, K. (2010). The rhetoric of multi-display learning spaces: exploratory experiences in visual art discipines. Seminar.net, 6(1),

Brett Bligh and Katharina Lorenz of The University of Nottingham, present the Multi-Display Learning Spaces (MD-LS) in this article. It comprises technologies to allow the viewing of multiple simultaneous visual materials, modes of learning which enc... Read More about The rhetoric of multi-display learning spaces: exploratory experiences in visual art discipines.

Vorsprung durch Technik: multi-display learning spaces and art-historical method (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Bligh, B., & Lorenz, K. (2010). Vorsprung durch Technik: multi-display learning spaces and art-historical method.

The trajectory and heuristic success of Art History as a discipline has always been inseparably linked to the technical means of visualizing the material that is at its core. When in the late 19th century first analogous, then double-slide projection... Read More about Vorsprung durch Technik: multi-display learning spaces and art-historical method.

The role of education in development: an educationalist’s response to some recent work in development economics (2010)
Journal Article
McGrath, S. (2010). The role of education in development: an educationalist’s response to some recent work in development economics. Comparative Education, 46(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/03050061003775553

This paper delves beneath the widespread belief that education (often repackaged as human capital) is important in development to consider the role that the discipline of education plays in shaping the wider discourses of development. In particular,... Read More about The role of education in development: an educationalist’s response to some recent work in development economics.

The pragmatics of education journals: the case of the International Journal of Educational Development (2010)
Journal Article
McGrath, S., & Mason, M. (2010). The pragmatics of education journals: the case of the International Journal of Educational Development

This article discusses some of the pragmatics and politics of academic journal publishing within the context of the contemporary higher education and publishing political economy. The case of the International Journal of Educational Development(IJED)... Read More about The pragmatics of education journals: the case of the International Journal of Educational Development.

Inspiriting a Disembodying of the "Dream of a Single Logic": A Response to Elizabeth Mowat and Brent Davis (2010)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. (2010). Inspiriting a Disembodying of the "Dream of a Single Logic": A Response to Elizabeth Mowat and Brent Davis. Complicity: an international journal of complexity in education, 7(1), 52-56. https://doi.org/10.29173/cmplct8838

A Response to Elizabeth Mowat & Brent Davis

Investigating participation in Advanced level mathematics: a study of student drop out (2009)
Journal Article
Noyes, A., & Sealey, P. (2009). Investigating participation in Advanced level mathematics: a study of student drop out. Research Papers in Education, 27(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/02671520903288885

There has for some years been a growing concern about participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England and across the developed world. Extensive statistical analyses present the decline but offer little to help us understand the cau... Read More about Investigating participation in Advanced level mathematics: a study of student drop out.

Exploring social patterns of participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England (2009)
Journal Article
Noyes, A. (2009). Exploring social patterns of participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England. Research in Mathematics Education, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/14794800903063356

In recent years in England there has been considerable attention given to a range of apparent crises in mathematics education, one of which has been the long term decline of participation in university-entrance level (Advanced or A) mathematics. Giv... Read More about Exploring social patterns of participation in university-entrance level mathematics in England.

Reading and re-reading Shrek (2009)
Journal Article
Parry, B. (2009). Reading and re-reading Shrek. English in Education, 43(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-8845.2009.01037.x

This article presents the findings of a small-scale research project which aimed to enable young people to reflect on their childhood responses to the popular films, ‘Shrek’ and ‘Shrek 2’. During the project the participants develop new readings of t... Read More about Reading and re-reading Shrek.

Reconfiguring or reproducing intra-professional boundaries? Specialist expertise, generalist knowledge and the ‘modernization’ of the medical workforce (2009)
Journal Article
Martin, G. P., Currie, G., & Finn, R. (2009). Reconfiguring or reproducing intra-professional boundaries? Specialist expertise, generalist knowledge and the ‘modernization’ of the medical workforce. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.01.006

Efforts to ‘modernize’ the clinical workforce of the English National Health Service have sought to reconfigure the responsibilities of professional groups in pursuit of more effective, joined-up service provision. Such efforts have met resistance f... Read More about Reconfiguring or reproducing intra-professional boundaries? Specialist expertise, generalist knowledge and the ‘modernization’ of the medical workforce.

Localisation of the e-Educator module: the Malaysian experience (2009)
Journal Article
Thang, S. M., & Joyes, G. (2009). Localisation of the e-Educator module: the Malaysian experience. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 10(2),

The University of Nottingham, UK and Beijing Foreign Studies University, China developed a module for training tutors of online learners - one that could be adapted for use in a variety of contexts. The module was piloted at the School of Distance Ed... Read More about Localisation of the e-Educator module: the Malaysian experience.

Public and user participation in public service delivery: tensions in policy and practice (2009)
Journal Article
Martin, G. P. (2009). Public and user participation in public service delivery: tensions in policy and practice. Sociology Compass, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00200.x

Social-scientific analysis of public-participation initiatives has proliferated in recent years. This review article discusses some key aspects of recent work. Firstly, it analyses some of the justifications put forward for public participation, dr... Read More about Public and user participation in public service delivery: tensions in policy and practice.

Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements (2009)
Journal Article
Martin, G. P. (2009). Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements. Critical Public Health, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/09581590802385672

Recent health policy in England has demanded greater involvement of patients and the public in the commissioning of health and social care services. Public involvement is seen as a means of driving up service quality, reducing health inequalities a... Read More about Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements.

School self-evaluation and its impact on teachers’ work in England (2009)
Journal Article
Hall, C., & Noyes, A. (2009). School self-evaluation and its impact on teachers’ work in England. Research Papers in Education, 24(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/02671520802149873

This study, based on in-depth interview data from a sample of schools in the midlands of England, offers an analysis of UK teachers’ perceptions and understandings of school self evaluation at a point when national accountability procedures have requ... Read More about School self-evaluation and its impact on teachers’ work in England.

Where have all the fishes gone?: Living Ubuntu as an ethics of research and pedagogical engagement (2009)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. (2009). Where have all the fishes gone?: Living Ubuntu as an ethics of research and pedagogical engagement. In D. Caracciolo, & A. M. Mungai (Eds.), In the Spirit of Ubuntu: Stories of Teaching and Research (3-21). Sense

Roots/Routes: Part II (2008)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. M. (2008). Roots/Routes: Part II. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(1), 58-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004090150010402

This narrative acts as an articulation of a journey of many routes. Following Part I of the same research journey of rootedness/routedness, it debates the nature of transformation and transcendence beyond personal and political paradoxes informed by... Read More about Roots/Routes: Part II.

Roots/Routes (2008)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. M. (2008). Roots/Routes. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(1), 49-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800408321631

This narrative and poetic rendering acts as an articulation of a journey of many routes. It is a storying of critical research issues and events as performances of lived experience. It is a métissage of hybrid, but interrelated, themes that find cohe... Read More about Roots/Routes.

Hard measures for soft stuff: citizenship indicators and educational policy under the Lisbon Strategy (2008)
Journal Article
Holford, J. (2008). Hard measures for soft stuff: citizenship indicators and educational policy under the Lisbon Strategy. European Educational Research Journal, 7(3), https://doi.org/10.2304/eerj.2008.7.3.331

How far is the European Union a vehicle for inclusion and empowerment of a new range of policy actors in education? This article explores the role of actors in policy formation through a case study. It examines European Union attempts since 2000 to d... Read More about Hard measures for soft stuff: citizenship indicators and educational policy under the Lisbon Strategy.

Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management (2008)
Journal Article
Martin, G. P. (2008). Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management. Social Science and Medicine, 67(11),

Public participation in health-service management is an increasingly prominent policy internationally. Frequently, though, academic studies have found it marginalized by health professionals who, keen to retain control over decision-making, undermin... Read More about Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management.

A space to write: The construction of the writing subject in early schooling (2007)
Journal Article
Dixon, K. (2007). A space to write: The construction of the writing subject in early schooling. English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies, 24(2), 85-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/10131750701452329

This article applies Foucault's (1977. Discipline and punish) theory of spatial distribution in relation to the teaching of writing in English medium classrooms in early schooling. It aims to highlight the value of working with spatial theory, by att... Read More about A space to write: The construction of the writing subject in early schooling.

Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa (2005)
Thesis
Swanson, D. M. (2005). Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa. (Thesis). University of British Columbia. Retrieved from https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/14601775

"Voices in the Silence" is a critical exploration of the construction of disadvantage in school mathematics in social context. It provides a reflexive, narrative account of a pedagogic journey towards understanding the pedagogizing of difference in m... Read More about Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa.