All Outputs (100)

Quality in undergraduate education: how powerful knowledge disrupts inequality (2017)
Book

Globally, the appetite for higher education is great, but what do students and societies gain? Quality in Undergraduate Education foregrounds the importance of knowledge acquisition at university. Many argue that university education is no longer a p... Read More about Quality in undergraduate education: how powerful knowledge disrupts inequality.

Nottingham to Ningbo: students as change agents across the globe (2017)
Journal Article

Factors that influence pre-service teachers’ persistence (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd This study investigated the role of various factors in pre-service teachers’ persistence. Using a sample of U.S. pre-service teachers (N = 1365) from 256 institutions, the study explored the joint effect of predictors that influen... Read More about Factors that influence pre-service teachers’ persistence.

Effective universal school-based social and emotional learning programs for improving academic achievement: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 50?years of research (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 This review explored the research regarding the effects of pre-K-12 school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions on reading (N = 57,755), mathematics (N = 61,360), and science (N = 16,380) achievement. The review focused on r... Read More about Effective universal school-based social and emotional learning programs for improving academic achievement: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 50?years of research.

'Words of wisdom': text, voice and justice in I, Daniel Blake (2017)
Journal Article

The film, I, Daniel Blake, has received critical acclaim for its portrayal of the experiences of those attempting to navigate the bureaucracy of the British welfare state system. In this article, I use the depiction of literacy in the film as a lens... Read More about 'Words of wisdom': text, voice and justice in I, Daniel Blake.

Looking for post-traumatic growth in perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda: a discussion of theoretical and ethical issues (2017)
Journal Article

The theory of post-traumatic growth claims that, in the struggle to overcome difficult experiences, individuals may identify positive ways in which the experience has changed them. There is extensive evidence of survivors of extreme adversities repor... Read More about Looking for post-traumatic growth in perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda: a discussion of theoretical and ethical issues.

Inclusive education in the academy: pedagogical and political imperatives in a master’s course (2017)
Journal Article

Many universities offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses in inclusive education. There has been much research into the impact of these courses, but little is written about their design. This article focuses on a master’s course in inclusive edu... Read More about Inclusive education in the academy: pedagogical and political imperatives in a master’s course.

Adult education, spirit and the 'New Age': Sir George Trevelyan and the Shropshire Adult Education College at Attingham 1948-76 (2017)
Thesis

This thesis presents an interdisciplinary study of post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through an investigation of the Shropshire Adult Education College (SAEC), 1948-1976. This was located at Attingham Park, Atcham, Shropsh... Read More about Adult education, spirit and the 'New Age': Sir George Trevelyan and the Shropshire Adult Education College at Attingham 1948-76.

The construction of early career teachers’ identities: coping or managing? (2017)
Journal Article

This paper examines how early career teachers cope with or manage the challenges that they experience during the transition from pre-service to the first and then the second year of teaching as they seek to establish stable, positive, professional id... Read More about The construction of early career teachers’ identities: coping or managing?.

Ways to teach modelling—a 50 year study (2017)
Journal Article

This article describes a sequence of design research projects, some exploratory others more formal, on the teaching of modelling and the analysis of modelling skills. The initial motivation was the author’s observation that the teaching of applied ma... Read More about Ways to teach modelling—a 50 year study.

Evidence-informed innovation in schools: aligning collaborative research and development with high quality professional learning for teachers (2017)
Journal Article

Innovation efforts in schools commonly wrestle with two challenges: how to secure ownership of change among teachers and how to ensure that improvements are based on evidence. This paper draws on findings from a two-year collaborative research and de... Read More about Evidence-informed innovation in schools: aligning collaborative research and development with high quality professional learning for teachers.

‘We will never escape these debts’: Undergraduate experiences of indebtedness, income-contingent loans and the tuition fee rises (2017)
Journal Article

This article critically examines how undergraduate students in a red brick university in the North of England have experienced the threefold rise in tuition fees since 2012, with particular attention on how they have begun to understand and negotiate... Read More about ‘We will never escape these debts’: Undergraduate experiences of indebtedness, income-contingent loans and the tuition fee rises.

Social capital, bounded agency and fuzzy logic: making data work in real world applications (2017)
Presentation / Conference

Silenced voices: the disappearance of the university and the student teacher in teacher education policy discourse in England (2017)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The teacher preparation landscape in England has been subject to radical policy change. Since 2010, the policy agenda has repositioned initial teacher preparation as a craft best... Read More about Silenced voices: the disappearance of the university and the student teacher in teacher education policy discourse in England.

The Palgrave international handbook on adult and life-long education and learning (2017)
Book

This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a diverse range of geopolitica... Read More about The Palgrave international handbook on adult and life-long education and learning.

Orchestrating productive whole class discussions: the role of designed student responses (2017)
Journal Article

The value of students publicly sharing and discussing their solutions to unstructured problems is widely recognized. This can, however, be pedagogically challenging. The solutions may be partial, unclear and unpredictable. For many teachers, particul... Read More about Orchestrating productive whole class discussions: the role of designed student responses.

Gypsy students in the UK: the impact of ‘mobility’ on education (2017)
Journal Article

This paper argues that Gypsy students in primary and secondary education in the UK are marginalised because of ambiguous understandings of their ‘mobility’. Drawing on research conducted on the south coast of England, it examines Gypsy families’ expe... Read More about Gypsy students in the UK: the impact of ‘mobility’ on education.

Adult education and learning: endorsing its contribution to the 2030 Agenda (2017)
Journal Article

The professional identity of mathematics teachers in Further Education (2017)
Journal Article

Professional identities may be viewed as narrative constructions in social situations but personal experiences and beliefs are fundamental influences in their development. Within Further Education colleges in England, mathematics teachers are typical... Read More about The professional identity of mathematics teachers in Further Education.

Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities (2017)
Journal Article

This paper provides a critical discussion of internationalisation in Higher Education (HE), and exemplifies a process of uncovering the investments in power and ideology through the partial analysis of four strategic internationalisation documents at... Read More about Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities.