No wall to lean on #newtonloss
(2016)
Digital Artefact
All Outputs (105)
The discourse of a ‘smart’ technology: implications for educational practice (2016)
Journal Article
The term ‘smart’ has become widely and sometimes carelessly employed in relation to contemporary design. However, in certain areas of cultural practice it also has acquired a more specialised and focussed meaning. One such area is education. The pres... Read More about The discourse of a ‘smart’ technology: implications for educational practice.
Research based theatre in dementia knowledge transfer: views from the front line (2016)
Journal Article
Purpose - Formal ties between the theatre and research dissemination have only recently developed and its general efficacy is largely unknown. Here we aim to redress this neglect by examining the effectiveness of a research based theatrical event in... Read More about Research based theatre in dementia knowledge transfer: views from the front line.
Democracy, Education, and a Politics of Indignation (2016)
Book Chapter
NO WALL TO LEAN ON (2016)
Digital Artefact
Therapeutic implications of counselling psychologists’ responses to client trauma: an interpretative phenomenological analysis (2016)
Journal Article
The past two decades have seen a surge of interest in the impact of working with trauma survivors on therapists’ psychological well-being. Existing literature assumes that therapists’ strong subjective responses to traumatic material adversely influe... Read More about Therapeutic implications of counselling psychologists’ responses to client trauma: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.
School leadership in West Africa: findings from a systematic literature review (2016)
Journal Article
The literature shows that leadership is the second most important factor influencing school and learner outcomes, including levels of literacy and numeracy, school leaving examination results, and progression to secondary and higher education. This p... Read More about School leadership in West Africa: findings from a systematic literature review.
Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools (2016)
Book
Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society (2016)
Book Chapter
© The Author(s) 2016. Drawing on the critical theories of Ernst Bloch and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, as well as on the knowledge and learning practices of counter-capitalist social movements, Amsler’s chapter offers a reading of political hopelessne... Read More about Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society.
South–South cooperation and the geographies of Latin America–Caribbean integration and development: a socio-spatial approach (2016)
Journal Article
Structured around the case of South–South cooperation in the construction of “complementary economic zones” among the member states of the ALBA-TCP, Petrocaribe, CARICOM and MERCOSUR, this article argues for a socio-spatial approach to the study of t... Read More about South–South cooperation and the geographies of Latin America–Caribbean integration and development: a socio-spatial approach.
The quality of learning, teaching and the curriculum (2016)
Book Chapter
This Chapter addresses three questions: What is good quality university teaching? How can it be achieved? How can it be assessed? To address these questions we start by making a case for a multi-dimensional, rich conceptualisation of teaching, drawi... Read More about The quality of learning, teaching and the curriculum.
Constricting or constructing everyday lives? Literacies and inequality (2016)
Book Chapter
Time travels in literacy and pedagogy: from script to screen (2016)
Book Chapter
Trends in Maths and Science Study (TIMSS): National Report for England (2016)
Book
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is overseen by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). It provides participating countries internationally comparable data on the performance... Read More about Trends in Maths and Science Study (TIMSS): National Report for England.
Innovation is possible, it’s just not easy: Improvement, innovation and legitimacy in England’s autonomous and accountable school system (2016)
Journal Article
This article reviews the literature and explores the institutional and systemic factors that help and/or hinder change and innovation across school systems, with a focus on evidence from England. A number of authors have argued that schools and schoo... Read More about Innovation is possible, it’s just not easy: Improvement, innovation and legitimacy in England’s autonomous and accountable school system.
The role of vocational education and training in Palestine in addressing inequality and promoting human development (2016)
Journal Article
UNESCO’s new emphasis on vocational education and training as transformative, and concerns in particular with equity and sustainable human development, has been strongly influenced by a recent literature on VET and human development that has a partic... Read More about The role of vocational education and training in Palestine in addressing inequality and promoting human development.
Factors deterring schools from mixed attainment teaching practice (2016)
Journal Article
Mixed-attainment teaching has strong support from research and yet English schools are far more likely to teach students in ‘ability’ groups. Although research has considered some of the specific benefits of mixed-attainment grouping, there has been... Read More about Factors deterring schools from mixed attainment teaching practice.
Educational leadership and Pierre Bourdieu (2016)
Book
Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He argued for, and practiced, rigorous and reflexive scholarship, interrogating the inequities and injustices of modern societies. Through a lifetime’s explication of th... Read More about Educational leadership and Pierre Bourdieu.
The impact of psychological factors on recovery from injury: a multicentre cohort study (2016)
Journal Article
Purpose Unintentional injuries have a significant long-term health impact in working age adults. Depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder are common post-injury, but their impact on self-reported recovery has not been investigated in g... Read More about The impact of psychological factors on recovery from injury: a multicentre cohort study.