All Outputs (62)

Football: spectacularly insignificant or unspectacularly significant? (2014)
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Football supporters are often projected as being obsessed, emotionally saturated and intensely involved with their club. This may be true for some, but much of the time, the consumption of football is mundanely incorporated with other routine behavio... Read More about Football: spectacularly insignificant or unspectacularly significant?.

Closed but provocative questions: curves enclosing unit area (2014)
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This article describes a task leading to work on curve sketching, simultaneous equations and integration to find the area enclosed between two curves. An initial closed question is used to confront students with a provocative answer, which they then... Read More about Closed but provocative questions: curves enclosing unit area.

Personal inquiry: orchestrating science investigations within and beyond the classroom (2014)
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A central challenge for science educators is to enable young people to act as scientists by gathering and assessing evidence, conducting experiments, and engaging in informed debate. We report the design of the nQuire toolkit, a system to support scr... Read More about Personal inquiry: orchestrating science investigations within and beyond the classroom.

Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK (2014)
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Skilled migration is an increasingly important topic for both policy and research internationally. OECD governments in particular are wrestling with tensions between their desire to use skilled migration to be on the winning side in the ‘global war f... Read More about Communicating employability: the role of communicative competence for Zimbabwean highly skilled migrants in the UK.

The University of Nottingham and adult education (2014)
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This article examines twentieth century British university adult education, using the University of Nottingham as a case study. From around the time of the First World War until the 1990s, universities’ ‘adult education’ or ‘extra-mural’ departments... Read More about The University of Nottingham and adult education.

How do school leaders navigate ICT educational reform? Policy learning narratives from a Singapore context (2014)
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The purpose of this research inquiry focuses on how school leaders ‘make sense’ of educational reform in their local contexts. In order to do this, an exploratory qualitative case study of two schools that took part in policy reform initiatives direc... Read More about How do school leaders navigate ICT educational reform? Policy learning narratives from a Singapore context.

Depicting the tree of life in museums: guiding principles from psychological research (2014)
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The Tree of Life is revolutionizing our understanding of life on Earth, and, accordingly, evolutionary trees are increasingly important parts of exhibits on biodiversity and evolution. The authors argue that in using these trees to effectively commun... Read More about Depicting the tree of life in museums: guiding principles from psychological research.

Collaboration, dialogue and expansive learning: the use of paired and multiple placements in the school practicum (2014)
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This study examines the way in which paired or multiple placements of student teachers in the school practicum can support learning through the promotion of collaboration and dialogue. It draws on data collected across six higher education institutio... Read More about Collaboration, dialogue and expansive learning: the use of paired and multiple placements in the school practicum.

Perspectives on regular and support class placement and factors that contribute to success of inclusion for children with ASD (2014)
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For young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in regular schools, ASD specific service delivery options include regular class placement with itinerant consultative support and support class placement. This study provided an examination of le... Read More about Perspectives on regular and support class placement and factors that contribute to success of inclusion for children with ASD.

The post-2015 debate and the place of education in development thinking (2014)
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As the end date for the Millennium Development Goals approaches so the focus on goals, visions and policies for development after 2015 becomes ever heightened. However, there has been relatively little engagement by educational research community in... Read More about The post-2015 debate and the place of education in development thinking.

The Autism Spectrum Disorder Evaluative Education Model: a school-based method of assessing and selecting interventions for classroom use (2014)
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Evaluating educational programs and interventions is generally considered a normal part of curriculum development and improvement, and published findings are readily accessible through peer-reviewed journals. Recently, however, researchers and practi... Read More about The Autism Spectrum Disorder Evaluative Education Model: a school-based method of assessing and selecting interventions for classroom use.

To grade or not to grade: balancing formative and summative assessment in post-16 teacher trainee observations (2014)
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The issue of whether trainee teachers in the post-16 sector should have their classroom practice graded has been debated for a number of years. The case for training courses retaining an emphasis on written and verbal ‘developmental’ feedback at the... Read More about To grade or not to grade: balancing formative and summative assessment in post-16 teacher trainee observations.

Lesson design for formative assessment (2014)
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The potential power of formative assessment to enhance student learning is clear from research. This, however, demands a different learning culture and a broader range of teaching approaches than are found in most mathematics classrooms. Earlier effo... Read More about Lesson design for formative assessment.

The uses and abuses of power: teaching school leadership through children's literature (2014)
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There are relatively few studies of how representations of teachers, schools and educational administrators in popular films and television might be, and are, used in leadership preparation. This paper seeks to add to this small body of work; it repo... Read More about The uses and abuses of power: teaching school leadership through children's literature.

Developing students’ strategies for problem solving in mathematics: the role of pre-designed “Sample Student Work” (2014)
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This paper describes a design strategy that is intended to foster self and peer assessment and develop students’ ability to compare alternative problem solving strategies in mathematics lessons. This involves giving students, after they themselves ha... Read More about Developing students’ strategies for problem solving in mathematics: the role of pre-designed “Sample Student Work”.

Inquiry, engagement, and literacy in science: a retrospective, cross-national analysis of PISA 2006 (2014)
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In this study, we examine patterns of students’ literacy and engagement in science associated with different levels of ‘inquiry-oriented’ learning reported by students in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. To achieve this we analysed data from the O... Read More about Inquiry, engagement, and literacy in science: a retrospective, cross-national analysis of PISA 2006.

Positive functioning inventory: initial validation of a 12-item self-report measure of well-being (2014)
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Background: This paper describes the validation of the Positive Functioning Inventory (PFI-12). This is a 12-item self-report tool developed to assess a spectrum of functioning ranging from states of mental distress to states of well-being. Method:... Read More about Positive functioning inventory: initial validation of a 12-item self-report measure of well-being.

The role of relational resilience in teachers’ career-long commitment and effectiveness (2014)
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At a time when the contemporary landscape of teaching is populated with successive and persisting government policy reforms that have increased teachers’ external accountabilities, work complexity, and emotional workload, understanding why and how ma... Read More about The role of relational resilience in teachers’ career-long commitment and effectiveness.

Diploma serves diplomacy: China's "donor logic" in educational aid (2014)
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China's engagement in Africa is an increasingly popular topic in the 21st century. However, not much attention has been paid in the field of education and little evidence can be seen in what actually happens on the ground. This article aims to explor... Read More about Diploma serves diplomacy: China's "donor logic" in educational aid.

A journey to client and therapist mutuality in person-centered psychotherapy: a case study (2014)
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This aim of this case study was to build theory on the development of client–therapist mutuality in person-centered psychotherapy. A case study focusing on a 42-year-old female client who had presented for therapy following trauma within interpersona... Read More about A journey to client and therapist mutuality in person-centered psychotherapy: a case study.