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Posttraumatic growth as a process and an outcome: Vexing problems and paradoxes seen from the perspective of humanistic psychology (2019)
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The aim of this article is to discuss the concept of posttraumatic growth (PTG) from the perspective of humanistic psychology. Research findings in PTG have posed what seem to be challenging theoretical questions. Questions that seem perplexing or pa... Read More about Posttraumatic growth as a process and an outcome: Vexing problems and paradoxes seen from the perspective of humanistic psychology.

Conceptualising transitions from vocational to higher education: bringing together Bourdieu and Bernstein (2019)
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In this paper we provide a framework for conceptualising transitions from Vocational Education and Training (VET) programmes to Higher Education (HE), by bringing together Bourdieu’s and Bernstein’s theoretical approaches with the view to attend to t... Read More about Conceptualising transitions from vocational to higher education: bringing together Bourdieu and Bernstein.

The Efficacy of Inquiry-Based Instruction in Science: a Comparative Analysis of Six Countries Using PISA 2015 (2019)
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© 2019, The Author(s). This study is a comparative analysis of 15-year-old students’ scientific literacy, and its association with the instructional strategies that students experience, across six OECD countries that participated in PISA 2015. Across... Read More about The Efficacy of Inquiry-Based Instruction in Science: a Comparative Analysis of Six Countries Using PISA 2015.

Implementation, Evalution and Maintenance of a Social-Emotional Skills Training Program for Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder in a Specialist School Setting (2019)
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Socialization difficulties in children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are often associated with peer rejection and impaired academic achievement. Schools might appear to offer an ideal setting for social-emotional skills (SES) instruction. Ho... Read More about Implementation, Evalution and Maintenance of a Social-Emotional Skills Training Program for Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder in a Specialist School Setting.

Place and student subjectivities in Higher Education ‘cold spots’ (2019)
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This article uses an analytical framework informed by social geographies to explore the complex relationships between Higher Education Institution, undergraduate student and place. Drawing on findings from a qualitative study exploring the experience... Read More about Place and student subjectivities in Higher Education ‘cold spots’.

How international students of colour become Black: a story of whiteness in English higher education (2019)
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This article highlights how international students of colour are racialised in English higher education. Key performance indicators of racial inequality in the sector like achievement outcomes currently discount experiences of international students... Read More about How international students of colour become Black: a story of whiteness in English higher education.

This Time from Africa: Developing a Relational Approach to Values-Driven Leadership (2019)
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The importance of relationality in ethical leadership has been the focus of recent attention in business ethics scholarship. However, this relational component has not been sufficiently theorized from different philosophical perspectives, allowing s... Read More about This Time from Africa: Developing a Relational Approach to Values-Driven Leadership.

TCs and our global reach (2019)
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Mapping Critical Anthropocene Discourses in Musical Artefacts: Whiteness, Absence, and the Intersecting “-Cenes” in Prurient’s The History of Aids (2019)
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Cumulative knowledge-building for inclusive education in initial teacher education (2019)
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Initial teacher education must respond to the demand that newly qualified teachers are able to teach inclusively. This response has been the creation of opportunities for learning in coursework and field experiences. Research has identified the impac... Read More about Cumulative knowledge-building for inclusive education in initial teacher education.

Conductive education: thirty years on (2019)
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In 1989 Mike Oliver’s Current Issue about Conductive Education (CE) enabled disability activists and scholars to consider educational ‘tools’ and cures as potentially oppressive, and he expressed his view that CE was based on a set of assumptions abo... Read More about Conductive education: thirty years on.

Internationalisation of Higher Education and National Development: The Case of Zimbabwe (2019)
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The discourse of the internationalisation of higher education continues to grow in influence. Whilst the bulk of the IHE literature has been Northern-focused and dominated, there was an African strand a decade or so ago that has sought to understand... Read More about Internationalisation of Higher Education and National Development: The Case of Zimbabwe.

Vocational education and training for African development: a literature review (2019)
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© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The SDGs mark the clearest global acceptance yet that the previous approach to development was unsustainable. In VET, UNESCO has responded by developi... Read More about Vocational education and training for African development: a literature review.

Gender-diverse practitioners in early years education and care (EYEC): a cross-cultural study of Scotland, Hong Kong, and Mainland China (2019)
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This paper discusses whether practitioners’ gender subjectivities influence pedagogies and practices in early years education and care (EYEC) settings and whether an increase of men’s participation can improve gender diversity in EYEC. It draws on po... Read More about Gender-diverse practitioners in early years education and care (EYEC): a cross-cultural study of Scotland, Hong Kong, and Mainland China.

An inheritance of exclusion: Roma education, genetics and the turn to biosocial solutions (2019)
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Since the 1990s an increasing body of genetic studies of Roma people has been conducted and used to understand their lives. This includes research on health issues such as genetic predispositions to obesity or high cholesterol levels and the migratio... Read More about An inheritance of exclusion: Roma education, genetics and the turn to biosocial solutions.

How teachers’ individual autonomy may hinder students’ academic progress and attainment: Professionalism in practice (2019)
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This article reports a 3-year case study of a primary school in England, in which a recently appointed principal attempted to build ‘collegial professional autonomy’ (Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2, 2015, 20) within a push to impr... Read More about How teachers’ individual autonomy may hinder students’ academic progress and attainment: Professionalism in practice.

Kindergarten self-control mediates the gender reading achievement gap: A population-based cohort study (2019)
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Could superior self-control explain the gender difference in reading achievement favoring girls? To test this idea, we drew on a unique population-based sample (N = 11,336) where self-control was measured in kindergarten using a multimethod battery o... Read More about Kindergarten self-control mediates the gender reading achievement gap: A population-based cohort study.

Professional learning through collaborative research in mathematics (2019)
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In this study, the professional learning of two groups of secondary mathematics teachers are compared as they participate in an education research project to explore the uses of iPads within formative assessment processes. Data from lesson observatio... Read More about Professional learning through collaborative research in mathematics.

A comparison of two models of support for students with autism spectrum disorder in school and predictors of school success (2019)
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Background: There is little comparative data on models of support for children with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in school. The objectives of this research were (1) to compare the outcomes of two service delivery models (Autism Spectrum Australia s... Read More about A comparison of two models of support for students with autism spectrum disorder in school and predictors of school success.

Test-takers’ perspectives on a global test of English: questions of fairness, justice and validity (2019)
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Although language test-takers have been the focus of much theoretical and empirical work in recent years, this work has been mainly concerned with their attitudes to test preparation and test-taking strategies, giving insufficient attention to their... Read More about Test-takers’ perspectives on a global test of English: questions of fairness, justice and validity.