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Professional identities of lecturers in three international universities in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia: multilingual professionals at work (2019)
Journal Article
Evison, J., Bailey, L., Taylor, P., & Tubpun, T. (2019). Professional identities of lecturers in three international universities in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia: multilingual professionals at work. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2019.1608814

This paper examines the impact of internationalisation on the professional identities of lecturers at three international universities in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. Higher education in SE Asia faces significant pressures to change because of the... Read More about Professional identities of lecturers in three international universities in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia: multilingual professionals at work.

Distributed leadership and the Malaysia Education Blueprint: from prescription to partial school-based enactment in a highly centralised context (2019)
Journal Article
Bush, T., & Ng Yoon Mooi, A. (2019). Distributed leadership and the Malaysia Education Blueprint: from prescription to partial school-based enactment in a highly centralised context. Journal of Educational Administration, 57(3), 279-295. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEA-11-2018-0206

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to present and discuss the findings from research on the relationship between leadership theory and policy reform in Malaysia. The research was conducted in two dissimilar Malaysian states. Research Design... Read More about Distributed leadership and the Malaysia Education Blueprint: from prescription to partial school-based enactment in a highly centralised context.

PISA and self-projection in Shanghai (2019)
Book Chapter
Reyes, V., & TAN, C. (2019). PISA and self-projection in Shanghai. In Understanding PISA’s Attractiveness Critical Analyses in Comparative Policy Studies (161-176). Bloomsbury Academic

This chapter explores 'self-projection' by analysing the responses of Chinese education officials to Shanghai's success in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). It is argued that the self-image projected is both positive and nega... Read More about PISA and self-projection in Shanghai.

Conceptions of teaching in and through noise: a study of experimental musicians’ beliefs (2019)
Journal Article
Woods, P. J. (2019). Conceptions of teaching in and through noise: a study of experimental musicians’ beliefs. Music Education Research, 21(4), 459-468. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613808.2019.1611753

Critical analyses of experimental music and free improvisation have uncovered multiple educational benefits embedded within this broad collection of genres. However, by rooting this work primarily within formal classrooms, scholars have yet to discov... Read More about Conceptions of teaching in and through noise: a study of experimental musicians’ beliefs.

Transitions to higher education: the case of students with vocational background (2019)
Journal Article
Katartzi, E., & Hayward, G. (2020). Transitions to higher education: the case of students with vocational background. Studies in Higher Education, 45(12), 2371-2381. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1610866

The paper examines the ways transitions to Higher Education are experienced and narrated by students with Vocational qualifications. Drawing upon the mixed-method project that documented transitions to HE, we utilise interview data to illustrate the... Read More about Transitions to higher education: the case of students with vocational background.

Young carers in England: Findings from the 2018 BBC survey on the prevalence and nature of caring among young people (2019)
Journal Article
Joseph, S., Kendall, C., Toher, D., Sempik, J., Holland, J., & Becker, S. (2019). Young carers in England: Findings from the 2018 BBC survey on the prevalence and nature of caring among young people. Child: Care, Health and Development, 45(4), 606-612. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12674

Background. Many young people are involved in caring for parents, siblings, or other relatives who have an illness or disability. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of caring by young people in England. Method. A national survey of... Read More about Young carers in England: Findings from the 2018 BBC survey on the prevalence and nature of caring among young people.

Revisiting China’s Africa policies and educational promises: towards a global convergence of development in the post-2015 era? (2019)
Journal Article
Yuan, T. (2019). Revisiting China’s Africa policies and educational promises: towards a global convergence of development in the post-2015 era?. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 17(5), 658-673. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2019.1595534

Comparing China’s 2006 and 2015 Africa policies, this article reveals how China’s political discourse has become more confident, practical, and depoliticised. In particular, this paper shows how education is allocated, promised, and embedded in China... Read More about Revisiting China’s Africa policies and educational promises: towards a global convergence of development in the post-2015 era?.

Language through the lens of culture: Developing learners’ intercultural understanding through material selection and design in the CLIL classroom. (2019)
Presentation / Conference
KORO, R. (2019, March). Language through the lens of culture: Developing learners’ intercultural understanding through material selection and design in the CLIL classroom. Presented at Educating the Global Citizen: International Perspectives on Foreign Language Teaching in the Digital Age, Munich, Germany

Leading and sustaining Zimbabwe's private schools: matching vision with economic reality (2019)
Journal Article
Bush, T., Chingarande, D., Glover, D., Muchabaiwa, W., Simango, J., & Thondhlana, J. (2019). Leading and sustaining Zimbabwe's private schools: matching vision with economic reality. Management in Education, 33(3), 101-109. https://doi.org/10.1177/0892020619831760

The political, economic and social challenges in Zimbabwe are well documented. Public schools have been damaged by a shortage of resources, and by a brain drain of teachers. This has led many parents to seek private education for their children but... Read More about Leading and sustaining Zimbabwe's private schools: matching vision with economic reality.

Performing PowerPoint lectures: examining the extent of slide-text integration into lecturers’ spoken expositions (2019)
Journal Article
Hallewell, M., & Crook, C. (2020). Performing PowerPoint lectures: examining the extent of slide-text integration into lecturers’ spoken expositions. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 44(4), 467-482. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2019.1579895

The PowerPoint assisted lecture (slide-lecture) is a common lecturing approach in Higher Education, in spite of much criticism of its use. Its popularity is facilitated by its affordances for multimodal instructional design, e.g. text with images and... Read More about Performing PowerPoint lectures: examining the extent of slide-text integration into lecturers’ spoken expositions.

Teacher training bursaries in England: an analysis of their impact on the quantity and quality of trainees (2019)
Report
NOYES, A., MCINTYRE, J., & Geppert, C. (2019). Teacher training bursaries in England: an analysis of their impact on the quantity and quality of trainees

Curriculum responsiveness and student employability: An institutional analysis (2019)
Book Chapter
Wedekind, V. (2019). Curriculum responsiveness and student employability: An institutional analysis. In Skills for the future: new research perspectives. , (79-90). Cape Town: HSRC Press

Education organisations are under constant pressure from policy-makers, political actors and the public to make their programmes responsive to the needs of the economy and society. In contexts of social change and where broader economic and societal... Read More about Curriculum responsiveness and student employability: An institutional analysis.

How new technology is addressed by researchers in educational studies: approaches from high-performing universities in China and the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Crook, C., & Gu, X. (2019). How new technology is addressed by researchers in educational studies: approaches from high-performing universities in China and the UK. British Journal of Educational Technology, 50(3), 1173-1188. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12750

There is a crisis of expectation in relation to educational technology. This is sometimes interpreted as a failure of academic researchers to disseminate their work to educational practitioners. However, another interpretation dwells on the lack of v... Read More about How new technology is addressed by researchers in educational studies: approaches from high-performing universities in China and the UK.

Undergraduate experiences of the research/teaching nexus across the whole student lifecycle (2019)
Journal Article
Clark, T., & Hordosy, R. (2019). Undergraduate experiences of the research/teaching nexus across the whole student lifecycle. Teaching in Higher Education, 24(3), 412-427. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2018.1544123

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. There is currently much interest in the interconnections between research and teaching in Higher Education. This relationship is usually termed ‘the research/teaching nexus’ (RTN... Read More about Undergraduate experiences of the research/teaching nexus across the whole student lifecycle.

Catch Up Numeracy Evaluation report and executive summary (2019)
Report
Hodgen, J., Adkins, M., Ainsworth, S., & Evans, S. (2019). Catch Up Numeracy Evaluation report and executive summary. Education Endowment Foundation

Adding lemon juice to poison: examining the oxymoronic nature of mindfulness in education and its future direction (2019)
Journal Article
Sellman, E. M., & Buttarazzi, G. F. (2020). Adding lemon juice to poison: examining the oxymoronic nature of mindfulness in education and its future direction. British Journal of Educational Studies, 68(1), 61-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2019.1581128

This article seeks to amplify a debate initiated in this journal by Hyland (2016)by deepening a number of conceptual, methodological and implementationalissues concerning the application of mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) toschools and other p... Read More about Adding lemon juice to poison: examining the oxymoronic nature of mindfulness in education and its future direction.

Changing play – writing, researching and learning in an early years arts project (2019)
Journal Article
Franks, A., & Thomson, P. (2019). Changing play – writing, researching and learning in an early years arts project. Ethnography and Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2019.1579659

'Changing Play' is an ongoing project initiated by education curators from the Serpentine, a prestigious London art gallery, working with the Portman children's centre nursery. Viewed by curators as a collaboration between artist, children's centre s... Read More about Changing play – writing, researching and learning in an early years arts project.

The tensions of innovation: experiences of teachers during a whole school pedagogical shift (2019)
Journal Article
Knight, R. (2019). The tensions of innovation: experiences of teachers during a whole school pedagogical shift. Research Papers in Education, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2019.1568527

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Education in many countries is heavily influenced by what has been termed a Global Education Reform Movement, based on competition, measurement and comparison. As well as emphasi... Read More about The tensions of innovation: experiences of teachers during a whole school pedagogical shift.

De/Mathematising the Political in Mathematics Education: A De/Postcolonial Critique (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Chronaki, A., & Swanson, D. M. (2019). De/Mathematising the Political in Mathematics Education: A De/Postcolonial Critique. In Proceedings of the tenth International Mathematics Education and Society Conference (333-342)

Various interpretations have been given to the double gesture of de/mathematising in relation to a variety of social thematic contexts demarcating ‘the political’ in mathematics education. By way of theoretical intervention, we offer the beginnings... Read More about De/Mathematising the Political in Mathematics Education: A De/Postcolonial Critique.

Migrants in the labor market: implications for TVET (2019)
Book Chapter
Alla-Mensah, J., Fakoush, H., McGrath, S., & Wedekind, V. (2019). Migrants in the labor market: implications for TVET. In S. McGrath, M. Mulder, J. Papier, & R. Suart (Eds.), Handbook of vocational education and training: developments in the changing world of work (159-175). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94532-3_114

Migration is increasingly being seen as a political challenge and, thus, a policy priority. Yet the integration of migrants into labor markets is a key element of the political contestations of migration. On the one hand, successful labor market inte... Read More about Migrants in the labor market: implications for TVET.