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Googling inclusive education: a critical visual analysis (2020)
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Inclusive education is a global rights-based response to educational exclusion. It is communicated through a range of modalities, but analysis predominantly focuses on discourses constituted in written texts. Systematic research is needed to understa... Read More about Googling inclusive education: a critical visual analysis.

Being yourself for the ‘greater good’: An empirical investigation of the moderation effect of authenticity between self-compassion and compassion for others (2020)
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Self-compassion offers profound benefits to well-being and healthy psychological functioning. Surprisingly however, the relationship assumed between compassion for self and others has been questioned by recent research findings and is at best inconsi... Read More about Being yourself for the ‘greater good’: An empirical investigation of the moderation effect of authenticity between self-compassion and compassion for others.

The cry for professional intimacy: A UK study of changes in the working lives of expert practitioners in health and education during the early 21st century (2020)
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This paper reports on factors affecting the working lives of practitioners in health and education in the UK. The context is the increasing evidence of low recruitment, low retention rates and a high incidence of stress amongst expert practitioners i... Read More about The cry for professional intimacy: A UK study of changes in the working lives of expert practitioners in health and education during the early 21st century.

“Hot-headed” students? Scientific literacy, perceptions and awareness of climate change in 15-year olds across 54 countries (2020)
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The growth in global climate protests by students challenge the status quo of policy makers and political leaders in mitigating the effects of climate change. These events suggest that young people are increasingly well-informed and aware of environm... Read More about “Hot-headed” students? Scientific literacy, perceptions and awareness of climate change in 15-year olds across 54 countries.

Reimagining collaboration through the lens of the posthuman: Uncovering embodied learning in noise music (2020)
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While education research has largely avoided posthumanist scholarship, this analytic lens challenges the ways in which researchers have conceptualized educational technologies, i.e. collaboration and embodied learning, as primarily humanist endeavors... Read More about Reimagining collaboration through the lens of the posthuman: Uncovering embodied learning in noise music.

Authenticity Is Correlated With Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence (2020)
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Humanistic psychology has long been interested in authenticity. Carl Rogers proposed that authenticity leads to more fully functioning behavior. However, it is only in recent years that there has been empirical research into the correlates of authent... Read More about Authenticity Is Correlated With Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence.

Place-based governance and leadership in decentralised school systems: evidence from England (2020)
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Relatively few studies have explored the ways in which 'middle tier' institutional arrangements in education, such as school districts and local authorities, are responding to New Public Management reforms characterized by centralization, decentraliz... Read More about Place-based governance and leadership in decentralised school systems: evidence from England.

A quiet revolution? Reflecting on the potentiality and ethics of mindfulness in a junior school (2020)
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This article examines the potentiality, acceptability and ethical considerations of a mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) for supporting pupils’ mental well-being in a junior school. To date, research has predominantly focused on the psychological o... Read More about A quiet revolution? Reflecting on the potentiality and ethics of mindfulness in a junior school.

New VET Theories for New Times: The Critical Capabilities Approach to Vocational Education and Training and its Potential for Theorising a Transformed and Transformational VET (2020)
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There is a growing sense that the orthodox set of theories and policies for VET don’t work. This is particularly true in the South where all such Northern theories and policies face the common problem of being constructed for other contexts and then... Read More about New VET Theories for New Times: The Critical Capabilities Approach to Vocational Education and Training and its Potential for Theorising a Transformed and Transformational VET.

Beliefs and attributions: Insider accounts of men’s place in early childhood education and care (2020)
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Theoretical perspectives, and a large body of empirical research examining sex-segregated occupations, identify the attitudinal barriers of the majority as pivotal for both workplace well-being and the retention of minorities. Globally, where more th... Read More about Beliefs and attributions: Insider accounts of men’s place in early childhood education and care.

The “7 Up” Intersectionality Life Grid: A Tool for Reflexive Practice (2020)
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Feminist epistemology ensures women’s ways of seeing are central to research purpose and process. In particular, feminist standpoint theory, including Black feminist standpoint theory, recognizes epistemic privilege. Situated knowledge, what is known... Read More about The “7 Up” Intersectionality Life Grid: A Tool for Reflexive Practice.

Dwelling With Wildflowers: Qualitative Inquiry as Life-Living and Life-Giving (2020)
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In this short piece, I reconsider qualitative inquiry based on my chance encounter with a buttonhole flower. This encounter offered me an opportunity to explore not only my relationship with vegetal life, but also how dwelling with wildflowers allows... Read More about Dwelling With Wildflowers: Qualitative Inquiry as Life-Living and Life-Giving.

Exploring the Internationalization of Zimbabwe’s Higher Education Institutions Through a Decolonial Lens: Postcolonial Continuities and Disruptions (2020)
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Looking through the history of higher education in Zimbabwe, we argue that the concept of internationalisation of higher education is not new to Zimbabwe. Understandings, manifestations and processes of the phenomenon over time are examined to reveal... Read More about Exploring the Internationalization of Zimbabwe’s Higher Education Institutions Through a Decolonial Lens: Postcolonial Continuities and Disruptions.

Therapeutic Communities and initial responses to COVID 19 (2020)
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Evidence-Based Practice in Higher Education: Teacher Educators' Attitudes, Challenges, and Uses (2020)
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Teacher educators are encouraged to promote evidence-based practice in teaching and to use evidence for their own teaching. In the present study, teacher educators' attitudes, perceived challenges, and uses regarding evidence-based practice are descr... Read More about Evidence-Based Practice in Higher Education: Teacher Educators' Attitudes, Challenges, and Uses.

Interculturality in Teacher Education in Times of Unprecedented Global Challenges (2020)
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As societies face unprecedented challenges that are global in scope and "more-than-wicked" in nature, educators and educational policy makers emphasize the importance of deepening knowledge about the causes of these problems, creating policies to add... Read More about Interculturality in Teacher Education in Times of Unprecedented Global Challenges.

The waxing and waning of functional skills mathematics (2020)
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There have been repeated attempts to establish mathematics qualifications for lower attaining students aged 16 years and over on vocational pathways in England. In 2004, the Tomlinson Report proposed Functional Mathematics and this paper examines the... Read More about The waxing and waning of functional skills mathematics.

Neither backpackers nor locals: the professional identities of TESOL Teachers in East Asia studying on an MA TESOL (2020)
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This paper analyses accounts of professional identity constructed by teachers studying for an MA TESOL with a Western university. These teachers share a belief that commitment and competence are key professional attributes; however, contrasts are dra... Read More about Neither backpackers nor locals: the professional identities of TESOL Teachers in East Asia studying on an MA TESOL.

The university went to ‘decolonise’ and all they brought back was lousy diversity double-speak! Critical race counter-stories from faculty of colour in ‘decolonial’ times (2020)
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UK Higher Education is characterised by structural and institutional forms of whiteness. As scholars and activists are increasingly speaking out to testify, whiteness has wide-ranging implications that affect curricula, pedagogy, knowledge production... Read More about The university went to ‘decolonise’ and all they brought back was lousy diversity double-speak! Critical race counter-stories from faculty of colour in ‘decolonial’ times.

Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Reflections on Our Learnings Thus Far (2020)
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In this article we review learnings from our collaborative efforts to engage with the complexities and challenges of decolonization across varied educational contexts. To do so, we consider multiple interpretations of decolonization, and multiple dim... Read More about Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Reflections on Our Learnings Thus Far.