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Researching the everyday educational lives of low-income families: the importance of researcher and participant contexts (2024)
Journal Article

This paper highlights the importance of considering both researcher and participant contexts when exploring everyday educational lives. It emerges during a period of increasing and sustained social inequality in England, and against a backdrop of inc... Read More about Researching the everyday educational lives of low-income families: the importance of researcher and participant contexts.

University s/cyborgs widening undergraduate access (2024)
Journal Article

This study sought to examine questions of race in higher education widening access policy and practice in England. I was keen on seeking perceptions and stories of those who do work in this area, raising awareness of higher education opportunities to... Read More about University s/cyborgs widening undergraduate access.

Breathing space amidst the permanence of racism in the academy (2024)
Journal Article

This paper presents evidence that sheds light on both the limitations and the possibilities of race-focused staff forums that have formed across UK higher education as part of a response to equality legislation. Based on interviews conducted with thi... Read More about Breathing space amidst the permanence of racism in the academy.

Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden (2024)
Journal Article

The concept of belonging has grown in prominence in research and policy relating to new arrivals from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds. Arguably, belonging is replacing integration and inclusion as the panacea to perceived problems associated w... Read More about Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden.

Teacher educators as knowledge brokers: reframing knowledge co-construction with school partners (2024)
Journal Article

This paper explores the contention that teacher educators are especially well placed to help teachers bridge between practical experience and wider forms of knowledge. In its focus on issues derived from practice, knowledge co-construction and profes... Read More about Teacher educators as knowledge brokers: reframing knowledge co-construction with school partners.

Why bother with arts education in schools? (2024)
Journal Article

Enrolments in school arts subjects are falling in both England and Australia. There are various arguments made in an attempt to reverse the situation. The arts are said to be vital for the economy, linked to success in core school subjects, are educa... Read More about Why bother with arts education in schools?.

External and internal sources of cognitive group awareness information: Effects on perception and usage (2024)
Journal Article

Group selection or group formation is an important but difficult task in learning groups. Group awareness tools collect, transform, and present group awareness information to provide learners, but also teachers with relevant information e.g., about p... Read More about External and internal sources of cognitive group awareness information: Effects on perception and usage.

On wounds, incompleteness, and conviviality: Notes on counter-actualising the conditions of the contemporary (2024)
Journal Article

For Bernard Stiegler ‘the question of philosophy is first of all that of action’ (p.7). By extending this statement to philosophy of education, I consider the possibilities of action in education in responding to the conditions of the contemporary. T... Read More about On wounds, incompleteness, and conviviality: Notes on counter-actualising the conditions of the contemporary.

Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced AI Literacy in Higher Education (2024)
Journal Article

This paper seeks to contribute to the emergent literature on Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy in higher education. Specifically, this convergent, mixed methods case study explores the impact of employing Generative AI (GenAI) tools and cyber-soc... Read More about Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced AI Literacy in Higher Education.

The mathematics pipeline in England: inclusion and the excellence stream (2024)
Journal Article

In England, there is currently heightened political interest in increasing mathematics attainment and maximizing post-16 participation. The latter is not merely an issue for upper secondary but requires a long-view of students’ mathematical progress.... Read More about The mathematics pipeline in England: inclusion and the excellence stream.

Decolonizing assessment of learning in higher education: the journey ahead (2024)
Journal Article

This Point of Departure ponders the question of decolonizing assessment of learning in higher education. In addressing this question, we, as scholars of color who work in the academy in the US and the UK, have leaned on the work of Shahjahan, Estera,... Read More about Decolonizing assessment of learning in higher education: the journey ahead.

Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage (2024)
Journal Article

Composite storytelling as a social qualitative research method represents a growing spirit of creativity to explore themes of social injustice. This article discusses the potential methodological affordances and challenges of such approaches when use... Read More about Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage.

“Imaginative, embodied scholarly assemblages”: A poetic analysis of the Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group scholarship (2024)
Journal Article

The Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group (SIG) of the South African Education Research Association (SAERA) has been active since 2014, with over 100 academics from more than 20 higher education institutions participating. The 10th Anni... Read More about “Imaginative, embodied scholarly assemblages”: A poetic analysis of the Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group scholarship.

Local learning landscapes: conceptualising place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems (2024)
Journal Article

This article sets out an original conceptual framework for place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems. High quality Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CDPL) by teachers is associated wi... Read More about Local learning landscapes: conceptualising place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems.

Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration (2024)
Book

This edited volume brings together a range of perspectives on Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (ELMA) and various theories of resistance or compliance along with how policy and politics play out in school communities. The book... Read More about Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration.

Leaders resisting? The very idea (2024)
Book Chapter

While educational researchers have taken up the question of resistance, their interest is not shared by the majority of researchers in the educational leadership management and administration field. Our review of literatures within and beyond educati... Read More about Leaders resisting? The very idea.

Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North (2024)
Book

Poetic Inquiry for the Human and Social Sciences: Voices from the South and North enriches human and social science research by introducing new voices, insights, and epistemologies. Poetic inquiry, or poetry as research, is a literary and performance... Read More about Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North.

Peer-Reviews and AI Feedback Compared: University Students’ Preferences (2024)
Working Paper

This article seeks to contribute to the existing literature on peer review by comparing human with machine reviews based on the implementation of a chatbot responding with reference to a large language model for the review of open-ended student work.... Read More about Peer-Reviews and AI Feedback Compared: University Students’ Preferences.

Wellbeing and the importance of going “out of the realm of the classroom”: secondary school teachers’ perspectives (2024)
Journal Article

Schools play a central role in supporting young people affected by mental health issues. This article reports a reflexive thematic analysis of focus group and interview data with English secondary teachers about their perspectives on mental health an... Read More about Wellbeing and the importance of going “out of the realm of the classroom”: secondary school teachers’ perspectives.

Digital Multimodal Composing in Beginning L2 Spanish Classes: Student-Created Children’s Books (2024)
Journal Article

This work explores the incorporation of children’s books into university second language (L2) Spanish instruction for the development of students’ critical multimodal literacies and meaning making. Twenty-three learners’ collaborative analysis of aut... Read More about Digital Multimodal Composing in Beginning L2 Spanish Classes: Student-Created Children’s Books.