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Mapping out the landscape of literature on assessment in engineering education (2021)
Journal Article

Over recent decades, literature on assessment in higher education has intensified generating a wealth of frameworks to inform practice. Generic frameworks for assessment practice are sometimes perceived as missing subject-specific considerations. Thi... Read More about Mapping out the landscape of literature on assessment in engineering education.

‘To start talking phonics is crazy’: how parents understand ‘literacy’ in the lives of children with learning disabilities (2021)
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Children and young people with learning disabilities may not acquire the independent reading and writing skills which are con-flated with ‘literacy’ in international educational policy, calling into question what ‘literacy’ means in the context of ‘s... Read More about ‘To start talking phonics is crazy’: how parents understand ‘literacy’ in the lives of children with learning disabilities.

Conceptualising Regional Skills Ecosystems: Reflections on Four African Cases (2021)
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In this article we address the debate on regional skills formation systems in Africa. We draw on the social ecosystems model (SEM) developed by Hodgson and Spours to analyse data from four case studies that reflect the complexities of African economi... Read More about Conceptualising Regional Skills Ecosystems: Reflections on Four African Cases.

‘Sucking results out of children' : reflective lifeworld case study of a primary school teacher striving for authenticity (2021)
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This qualitative study presents an analysis of the experiences of a teacher who had recently left working in an England state funded primary school. Using reflective lifeworld methodology, this study explored the teacher’s struggle to be authentic in... Read More about ‘Sucking results out of children' : reflective lifeworld case study of a primary school teacher striving for authenticity.

Teacher education policy making during the pandemic: shifting values underpinning change in England? (2021)
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This paper examines how the policy process around initial teacher education (ITE) during the pandemic of 2020 was experienced by the leaders of ITE programmes across England.Education policies,it is argued, are solutions to perceived problems, reveal... Read More about Teacher education policy making during the pandemic: shifting values underpinning change in England?.

Perceived Social Resources Affect Help-Seeking and Academic Outcomes in the Initial Phase of Undergraduate Studies (2021)
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First-year students are challenged cognitively and socially by the need to integrate into a new environment. This article investigates the role of peer students as a social resource for academic help-seeking to overcome knowledge-related difficulties... Read More about Perceived Social Resources Affect Help-Seeking and Academic Outcomes in the Initial Phase of Undergraduate Studies.

The anxiety caused by secondary schools for autistic adolescents: In their own words (2021)
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Secondary schools are increasingly becoming inclusive of all students whatever their individual needs, but we question whether teachers understand enough about specific needs in order to effectively support all their students. Research indicates that... Read More about The anxiety caused by secondary schools for autistic adolescents: In their own words.

From Instrumental to Integral Mindfulness: Toward a More Holistic and Transformative Approach in Schools (2021)
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Although the implementation of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) in educational contexts appear to have demonstrated some benefits for students and teachers in research studies conducted over the last two decades, there are also those who critic... Read More about From Instrumental to Integral Mindfulness: Toward a More Holistic and Transformative Approach in Schools.

Staying and studying: narratives of local higher education in small island colleges (2021)
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Due to the unequal geographical distribution of HE institutions in many national HE systems, living in a rural or remote area and attending HE can be mutually exclusive. The implication is that those who remain in a rural area beyond school age do no... Read More about Staying and studying: narratives of local higher education in small island colleges.

Editorial: Ways of Seeing Women’s Leadership in Education—Stories, Images, Metaphors, Methods and Theories (2021)
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Gender and educational leadership remains a focus for scholarly interest precisely because gender inequalities remain. That is the case 30 years on from the publication of seminal works that established gender and women in educational leadership as a... Read More about Editorial: Ways of Seeing Women’s Leadership in Education—Stories, Images, Metaphors, Methods and Theories.

Instructional leadership in sub-Saharan Africa: policy and practice (2021)
Journal Article

Design/methodology/approach This paper reports the findings of a systematic literature review, and participant interviews, in six sub-Sahara African countries. The research links to the British Council's initiative to develop instructional leadersh... Read More about Instructional leadership in sub-Saharan Africa: policy and practice.

Calculating the cost: place, mobility and price in higher education decision-making for students on small islands around the UK (2021)
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The decision of whether and where to attend higher education is an inherently geographical decision. Amongst the structural inequalities that determine how decisions about higher education are made are a number of complex socio-spatial factors rangin... Read More about Calculating the cost: place, mobility and price in higher education decision-making for students on small islands around the UK.

Editorial for Special Issue - Leadership in Multi-School Organisations (2021)
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This special issue focusses on governance, leadership and improvement in Multi-School Organisations (MSOs). Three types of MSO are examined across the five articles - Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in England, Boards of Multiple Schools (BMSs) in the Ne... Read More about Editorial for Special Issue - Leadership in Multi-School Organisations.

Moving the Show Online: An Analysis of DIY Virtual Venues (2021)
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Australian teachers' perceptions of effectiveness in a performative culture (2021)
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Teachers' perceptions of effectiveness are shaped by myriad factors, including broad-based national education policy, personal values, and the demands of particular schools and students. Previous research has not investigated the shifting impact of i... Read More about Australian teachers' perceptions of effectiveness in a performative culture.

Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment (2021)
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The landscape of mental health recovery is changing; there have been calls for a shift from the clinical expertise being the dominant voice within mental healthcare towards a more personalised and collaborative service that supports those in need of... Read More about Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment.

Effectiveness of VR-based training on improving construction workers’ knowledge, skills, and safety behavior in robotic teleoperation (2021)
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The emergence of construction robotics and automation has produced an urgent and vast need for construction workers to reskill and upskill for the future of work. Virtual Reality (VR)-based training has been considered and investigated as a safe and... Read More about Effectiveness of VR-based training on improving construction workers’ knowledge, skills, and safety behavior in robotic teleoperation.

Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy (2021)
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University staff from African, Asian and other Minoritised Groups (AAMG) are not resigned to the pervasiveness of white supremacy in the corridors, classrooms, and lecture theatres of the academy. This article articulates a self-study, where we emplo... Read More about Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy.

The private sector in the development landscape: partnerships, power, and questionable possibilities (2021)
Journal Article

In introducing the Special Issue on The Private Sector in the Development Landscape this article focuses upon three key themes all related, in some manner, to the issue of power. These themes are drawn from the critique of partnership amongst convent... Read More about The private sector in the development landscape: partnerships, power, and questionable possibilities.

Development and validation of a 12-item version of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (B-L RI:mini) using item response theory (2021)
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The Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (B-L RI; Barrett-Lennard, (2015). The Relationship Inventory A Complete Resource and Guide. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-201602103917) is the most widely used measure of the facilitative conditio... Read More about Development and validation of a 12-item version of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (B-L RI:mini) using item response theory.