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The prosocial and pro-environmental aspects of authenticity and the mediating role of self-transcendence (2023)
Journal Article
Toper, A., Sellman, E., & Joseph, S. (2023). The prosocial and pro-environmental aspects of authenticity and the mediating role of self-transcendence. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2023.2255634

A considerable body of relevant literature has grown up around the theme of authenticity, showing the critical role it has in relation to a variety of indicators of individual well-being. The personal benefits of authenticity are now well documented.... Read More about The prosocial and pro-environmental aspects of authenticity and the mediating role of self-transcendence.

Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci: The Organising of Ideas (2023)
Book
Stevenson, H. (2023). Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci: The Organising of Ideas. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429505102

This insightful book explores the life and ideas of Italian Marxist theoretician Antonio Gramsci, and argues his work has considerable contemporary relevance when re-considering educational leadership in today’s age of crises. Gramsci’s theory of... Read More about Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci: The Organising of Ideas.

Challenging the neoliberal restructuring of public education : Union renewal and counter-hegemony from below (2023)
Book Chapter
Stevenson, H. (2023). Challenging the neoliberal restructuring of public education : Union renewal and counter-hegemony from below. In Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci The Organising of Ideas (126-148). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429505102-6

In this chapter, the experience of Europe’s largest education union, the UK’s National Education Union (NEU), is explored as an exercise in union renewal focused on developing a counter-hegemonic response to the neoliberal restructuring of the Englis... Read More about Challenging the neoliberal restructuring of public education : Union renewal and counter-hegemony from below.

The passive revolution in English school reform : Hegemony from above (2023)
Book Chapter
Stevenson, H. (2023). The passive revolution in English school reform : Hegemony from above. In Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci: The Organising of Ideas (101-125). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429505102-5

In this chapter, we analyse education reform in England over a period of more than half a century. Progressive advance in the post-war years posed a serious threat to the status and stability of dominant groups, so there has taken place a sustained e... Read More about The passive revolution in English school reform : Hegemony from above.

A mHealth intervention to reduce perceived stress in patients with ischemic heart disease: study protocol of the randomized, controlled confirmatory intervention “mStress-IHD” trial (2023)
Journal Article
Lortz, J., Rassaf, T., Jansen, C., Knuschke, R., Schweda, A., Schnaubert, L., …Bäuerle, A. (2023). A mHealth intervention to reduce perceived stress in patients with ischemic heart disease: study protocol of the randomized, controlled confirmatory intervention “mStress-IHD” trial. Trials, 24, Article 592. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07618-0

Background Stress is highly prevalent in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) and is associated with lower health-related quality of life and impaired cardiovascular outcome. The importance of stress management is now recognized in recent guid... Read More about A mHealth intervention to reduce perceived stress in patients with ischemic heart disease: study protocol of the randomized, controlled confirmatory intervention “mStress-IHD” trial.

The historical shifts of in/formality of learning within craft skills ecosystems in the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article
Li, M., Holstein, J., & Wedekind, V. (2023). The historical shifts of in/formality of learning within craft skills ecosystems in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Training and Development, 27(3-4), 405-421. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijtd.12308

In this paper, we address the debate on local skills ecosystems and informal learning. We use the social ecosystem model as a tool to help us analyse the role played by various actors in learning and skills ecosystems and highlight the role of inform... Read More about The historical shifts of in/formality of learning within craft skills ecosystems in the United Kingdom.

Still surviving, rather than thriving - the need to reimagine post-pandemic wellbeing according to secondary school teachers (2023)
Journal Article
Wilson, R., Sellman, E., & Joseph, S. (in press). Still surviving, rather than thriving - the need to reimagine post-pandemic wellbeing according to secondary school teachers. Pastoral Care in Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2023.2254792

In Spring Term 2021 following the second school closure and third lockdown in England, educational recovery and catch-up were key concerns for secondary schools. Following teacher interviews regarding wellbeing in secondary school teaching practice i... Read More about Still surviving, rather than thriving - the need to reimagine post-pandemic wellbeing according to secondary school teachers.

‘The way I know is by looking back’: English primary school children’s views of making progress in arts subjects (2023)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., Maloy, L., & Hall, C. (2024). ‘The way I know is by looking back’: English primary school children’s views of making progress in arts subjects. Education 3-13, 52(2), 251-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2023.2253075

Educators are concerned that children make progress in their learning. While there are both policy and professional debates about how progress should be monitored and assessed, the views of children are rarely considered. Grounded in the ‘voiced’ res... Read More about ‘The way I know is by looking back’: English primary school children’s views of making progress in arts subjects.

Conceptualizing Anti-Racist Pedagogies Within Experimental Music's Community of Practice (2023)
Journal Article
Woods, P. J. (2024). Conceptualizing Anti-Racist Pedagogies Within Experimental Music's Community of Practice. Adult Education Quarterly, 74(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/07417136231198218

Despite communities of practice (COPs) literature asserting the importance of attending to power dynamics within these learning contexts, research has largely ignored the process of racialization within COPs and, in particular, the role anti-racist p... Read More about Conceptualizing Anti-Racist Pedagogies Within Experimental Music's Community of Practice.

Theorising VET without 'VET theory'? Foundations and fragmentation of Anglophone VET research (2023)
Journal Article
Esmond, B., & Wedekind, V. (2023). Theorising VET without 'VET theory'? Foundations and fragmentation of Anglophone VET research. bwp@ Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik - online, Spezial (19), 1-28

Whilst VET in German-speaking countries and its research base are well-known internationally, its theoretical foundations are not shared in countries where VET emerged later and has undergone more circuitous forms of theorisation. The significance of... Read More about Theorising VET without 'VET theory'? Foundations and fragmentation of Anglophone VET research.

An ecological perspective on children’s play with digital technologies in South Africa and the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article
Scott, F., Marsh, J., Murris, K., Ng’ambi, D., Thomsen, B. S., Bannister, C., …Scholey, E. (2023). An ecological perspective on children’s play with digital technologies in South Africa and the United Kingdom. International Journal of Play, 12(3), 349-374. https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2023.2235466

This paper reports a mixed-methods study of the play of children (3–11) with digital technologies in South Africa (SA) and the United Kingdom (UK), discussing the interrelatedness of access to devices and the Internet, contextual realities, and adult... Read More about An ecological perspective on children’s play with digital technologies in South Africa and the United Kingdom.

Promoting participation of under-represented families in research (2023)
Digital Artefact
Hoskins, K., Wainwright, E., Gao, J., XU, Y., Zhai, J., & Arabaci, R. (2023). Promoting participation of under-represented families in research. [IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society]

Storytelling With Networks: Realizing the Explanatory Potential of Network Diagrams Through the Integration of Qualitative Data (2023)
Journal Article
Cowhitt, T., Greany, T., & Downey, C. (2023). Storytelling With Networks: Realizing the Explanatory Potential of Network Diagrams Through the Integration of Qualitative Data. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231189369

Network visualizations are alluring yet deceptively difficult to interpret. This article demonstrates several strategies for integrating qualitative data into interactive network diagrams for the purposes of providing contextual information about act... Read More about Storytelling With Networks: Realizing the Explanatory Potential of Network Diagrams Through the Integration of Qualitative Data.

Predicting outcomes in sport and exercise science degrees: the effect of qualification pathways (2023)
Journal Article
Hastings, J., & Noyes, A. (2023). Predicting outcomes in sport and exercise science degrees: the effect of qualification pathways. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 47(10), 1337-1350. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2023.2244434

In the UK, most prospective university students study ‘traditional’ academic qualifications such as A-Levels. However, increasing numbers of students are entering UK higher education with 'non-traditional' or vocational qualifications. This has provo... Read More about Predicting outcomes in sport and exercise science degrees: the effect of qualification pathways.

Touch may reduce cognitive load during assisted typing by individuals with developmental disabilities (2023)
Journal Article
Nicoli, G., Pavon, G., Grayson, A., Emerson, A., & Mitra, S. (2023). Touch may reduce cognitive load during assisted typing by individuals with developmental disabilities. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 17, Article 1181025. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2023.1181025

Many techniques have attempted to provide physical support to ease the execution of a typing task by individuals with developmental disabilities (DD). These techniques have been controversial due to concerns that the support provider’s touch can infl... Read More about Touch may reduce cognitive load during assisted typing by individuals with developmental disabilities.

Why inclusive education falters: a Bernsteinian analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Walton, E. (2023). Why inclusive education falters: a Bernsteinian analysis. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2023.2241045

The inclusive education policy agenda has not made a significant impact on the global problem of educational exclusion. Explanations for this lack of impact include inadequate teacher education, lack of resources, negative attitudes, and a policy-pra... Read More about Why inclusive education falters: a Bernsteinian analysis.

The Pedagogy of Gear Touchers: Unearthing Modes of Teaching Within and Through DIY Venues (2023)
Journal Article
Woods, P. J. (2023). The Pedagogy of Gear Touchers: Unearthing Modes of Teaching Within and Through DIY Venues. Teachers College Record, 125(6), 85-109. https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681231190498

Background: Within the body of literature on do-it-yourself (DIY) music scenes, researchers have routinely placed an emphasis on the role of material space in shaping the sociocultural and musical practices of punk music and other related genres. Sch... Read More about The Pedagogy of Gear Touchers: Unearthing Modes of Teaching Within and Through DIY Venues.

Re-Valuing the Shadows: Reimagining Possibilities for Alternative Futures through/with an Agentifying Education for a Planet in Crisis (2023)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2023). Re-Valuing the Shadows: Reimagining Possibilities for Alternative Futures through/with an Agentifying Education for a Planet in Crisis. In T. Lovat, R. Toomey, N. Clement, & K. Dally (Eds.), Second International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing (763-781). Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24420-9_43

The last decade has seen distinct ideological shifts in particular geopolitical contexts and in global/local relations across the globe, with increasing instability witnessed in social, political, ecological, material, and economic systems. Efforts t... Read More about Re-Valuing the Shadows: Reimagining Possibilities for Alternative Futures through/with an Agentifying Education for a Planet in Crisis.

Do informal networks become formalised over time? Analysing school networks and multi-academy trust membership in England using ego-centric analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Greany, T., Cowhitt, T., & Downey, C. (2024). Do informal networks become formalised over time? Analysing school networks and multi-academy trust membership in England using ego-centric analysis. Journal of Educational Change, 25, 151-172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-023-09485-7

Recent decades have seen a global shift in educational policy and practice towards various forms of ‘joining-up’, through partnerships and networks. These networks have differing aims but are broadly geared towards increasing quality and/or innovatio... Read More about Do informal networks become formalised over time? Analysing school networks and multi-academy trust membership in England using ego-centric analysis.

Dispositional authenticity, internalised homonegativity, and relationship quality in same-gender couples: an actor-partner interdependence moderation model (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, S., Murphy, D., Joseph, S., Murphy, D., & Joseph, S. (2024). Dispositional authenticity, internalised homonegativity, and relationship quality in same-gender couples: an actor-partner interdependence moderation model. Psychology and Sexuality, 15(1), 127-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2023.2231473

This dyadic study with 158 same-gender couples examined the relationships between dispositional authenticity, internalised homonegativity, and perceived relationship quality, introducing The Internalised Homonegativity-Authenticity Interaction Theory... Read More about Dispositional authenticity, internalised homonegativity, and relationship quality in same-gender couples: an actor-partner interdependence moderation model.