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“Now move like that fish”: Can enactment help learners come to understand dynamic motion presented in photographs and videos? (2020)
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Technological advancements offer new possibilities of interacting with learning materials, including the use of gestures and body movements. The present study addressed the question of how using one’s body to enact movements whilst learning about the... Read More about “Now move like that fish”: Can enactment help learners come to understand dynamic motion presented in photographs and videos?.

Pedagogical devices as children’s social care levers: A study of social care workers’ attitudes towards boarding schools to care for and educate children in need (2020)
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It has been proposed that boarding schools in England can be used to provide a stable education and care environment for vulnerable children in need and the government is expanding their use. However, for vulnerable children to be placed in boarding... Read More about Pedagogical devices as children’s social care levers: A study of social care workers’ attitudes towards boarding schools to care for and educate children in need.

Fight the Power! Games, Thermostats, and the Energy Patriarchy (2020)
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Confronting issues of global climate change will require creative approaches to energy consumption across a range of human activities. This design case looks at the evolution of a physical/digital hybrid board game that we created to encourage famili... Read More about Fight the Power! Games, Thermostats, and the Energy Patriarchy.

Routes through higher education: BME students and the development of a ‘specialisation of consciousness’ (2020)
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With changing demographics and the advent of mass higher education, there has been a significant impact on graduate transitions which has led to greater inequalities in access to social support during the transitionary period between undergraduate st... Read More about Routes through higher education: BME students and the development of a ‘specialisation of consciousness’.

Client-centred therapeutic relationship conditions and authenticity: a prospective study (2020)
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The aim was to investigate the association between experiencing a therapeutic relationship and subsequent authenticity. Forty-six clients completed the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (B-LRI, 1968), Relational Depth Inventory (RDI, Wiggins, E... Read More about Client-centred therapeutic relationship conditions and authenticity: a prospective study.

Children’s lived experiences of ‘ability’ in the Key Stage One classroom: life on the ‘tricky table’ (2020)
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Within the wealth of research on ‘ability’ in education, there is a missing perspective: the perspective of the child. Whilst ‘ability’ informed practices such as ‘ability’ grouping are commonplace in the UK, how these are experienced by the young ch... Read More about Children’s lived experiences of ‘ability’ in the Key Stage One classroom: life on the ‘tricky table’.

Timing impairments in early Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from a mouse model (2020)
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A key characteristic of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is loss of episodic memory-memory for what happened, where and when; this final aspect-timing-is the focus of the present article. Although timing deficits have been reported in AD patients, few parall... Read More about Timing impairments in early Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from a mouse model.

The Association Between Parent Engagement and Child Outcomes in Social Skills Training Programs: Discovering the Secret Agent Society in Partnership (2020)
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Previous research in clinical, community, and school settings has demonstrated positive outcomes for the Secret Agent Society (SAS) social skills training program. This is designed to help children on the autism spectrum become more aware of emotions... Read More about The Association Between Parent Engagement and Child Outcomes in Social Skills Training Programs: Discovering the Secret Agent Society in Partnership.

Good for learning, bad for motivation? A meta-analysis on the effects of computer-supported collaboration scripts (2020)
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Scripting computer-supported collaborative learning has been shown to greatly enhance learning, but is often criticized for hindering learners’ agency and thus undermining learners’ motivation. Beyond that, what makes some CSCL scripts particularly e... Read More about Good for learning, bad for motivation? A meta-analysis on the effects of computer-supported collaboration scripts.

Does the gender of a practitioner matter in early childhood education and care? Perspectives from Scottish and Chinese young children (2020)
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This paper responds to concerns over the assumed ‘feminisation’ of early childhood education and care (ECEC) and adds children's perspectives to debates on whether more men should work in ECEC. Pictorial conversations were conducted with 280 children... Read More about Does the gender of a practitioner matter in early childhood education and care? Perspectives from Scottish and Chinese young children.

The instructional benefits of identity texts and learning by design for learner motivation in required second language classes (2020)
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This article investigates the incorporation of identity texts grounded in the multiliteracies framework Learning by Design to second language (L2) instruction in required Spanish classes at a university in the Southern United States. In particular, i... Read More about The instructional benefits of identity texts and learning by design for learner motivation in required second language classes.

Pitfalls and possibilities in literacy research: A review of South African literacy studies, 2004-2018 (2020)
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Background: Given the comprehensively documented literacy crisis in South Africa and the gaps in what is known about the effective teaching of reading and writing in schools, high-quality literacy research is a priority. Objectives: This article... Read More about Pitfalls and possibilities in literacy research: A review of South African literacy studies, 2004-2018.

Positive education: A new look at Freedom to Learn (2020)
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Recent years have seen much interest in positive education. In this article, we will show how person-centred education, like positive education, is concerned with the promotion of human flourishing. Both offer ways in which education goes beyond trad... Read More about Positive education: A new look at Freedom to Learn.

Unnecessary and incompatible: a critical response to Cooper and McLeod’s conceptualization of a pluralistic framework for person-centered therapy (2020)
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© 2020 World Association for Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counseling. The aim of this paper is to critically examine the axiom of Cooper and McLeod that the person-centered approach should incorporate pluralistic practices based... Read More about Unnecessary and incompatible: a critical response to Cooper and McLeod’s conceptualization of a pluralistic framework for person-centered therapy.

The positive psychology of relational depth and its association with unconditional positive self-regard and authenticity (2020)
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© 2020 World Association for Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counseling. Relational depth (RD) refers to moments in a therapeutic relationship in which a person has feelings of aliveness, satisfaction and immersion. However, no res... Read More about The positive psychology of relational depth and its association with unconditional positive self-regard and authenticity.

Moving beyond immobility: Spatial stories of undergraduate mobility at the “local” college (2020)
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In the English higher education context, “going to” university is commonly associated with leaving the familial home at the age of 18 and moving to a new city. This article sets out to problematise dominant narratives of student mobilities, by focusi... Read More about Moving beyond immobility: Spatial stories of undergraduate mobility at the “local” college.

Beyond gender binaries: pedagogies and practices in early childhood education and care (ECEC) (2020)
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Re-thinking International Students' Voice in South-South Cooperation in Higher Education ???????????????????: An International Development Perspective ??????? (2020)
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This article provides an initial reflection based on a recent qualitative study on China’s higher education and scholarship provision to international students from developing countries. The empirical data collected from focus groups reveal two emerg... Read More about Re-thinking International Students' Voice in South-South Cooperation in Higher Education ???????????????????: An International Development Perspective ???????.