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The potential of a mobile group blog to support cultural learning among overseas students (2015)
Journal Article
Shao, Y., & Crook, C. (2015). The potential of a mobile group blog to support cultural learning among overseas students. Journal of Studies in International Education, 19(5), https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315315574101

We explored the use of mobile social software, in the form of a mobile group blog, to assist cultural learning. The potential of using this technology for cultural adaptation among overseas students was examined as those students adapted to the every... Read More about The potential of a mobile group blog to support cultural learning among overseas students.

“Whoa! We’re going deep in the trees!”: Patterns of collaboration around an interactive information visualization exhibit (2015)
Journal Article
Davis, P., Horn, M. S., Block, F., Phillips, B., Evans, E. M., Diamond, J., & Shen, C. (2015). “Whoa! We’re going deep in the trees!”: Patterns of collaboration around an interactive information visualization exhibit. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 10(1), 53-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-015-9209-z

In this paper we present a qualitative analysis of natural history museum visitor interaction around a multi-touch tabletop exhibit called DeepTree that we designed around concepts of evolution and common descent. DeepTree combines several large scie... Read More about “Whoa! We’re going deep in the trees!”: Patterns of collaboration around an interactive information visualization exhibit.

Supporting beginner teacher identity development: external mentors and the third space (2015)
Journal Article
McIntyre, J., & Hobson, A. J. (2016). Supporting beginner teacher identity development: external mentors and the third space. Research Papers in Education, 31(2), 133-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2015.1015438

This paper reports findings from a study of support provided by non-school-based mentors of secondary science teachers in England. It focuses on the identity development of beginning teachers of physics, some of the recipients of the mentoring. Drawi... Read More about Supporting beginner teacher identity development: external mentors and the third space.

A potter's day (2015)
Journal Article
Argyle, E. (2015). A potter's day. Ceramic Review, 272,

On becoming a counselor: challenges and opportunities to support interpersonal skills training (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Slovak, P., Thieme, A., Murphy, D., Tennent, P., Olivier, P., & Fitzpatrick, G. (2015). On becoming a counselor: challenges and opportunities to support interpersonal skills training.

Well-developed interpersonal skills are crucial for all social interactions. However, understanding how interpersonal skills are taught or learned, and how technology can play a part in this, is yet an under-researched area in CSCW and HCI research.... Read More about On becoming a counselor: challenges and opportunities to support interpersonal skills training.

Making 'better stem' happen: the role of the MaSciL project (2015)
Journal Article
Newton, L., & Sorensen, P. (2015). Making 'better stem' happen: the role of the MaSciL project. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 72,

‘Too often in secondary schools, science has seemed to students, parents and teachers to be quite separate from the rest of the curriculum and from the realities of everyday life; it has often seemed remote, clinical and inaccessible. The unique and... Read More about Making 'better stem' happen: the role of the MaSciL project.

Safe spaces, support, social capital: a critical analysis of artists working with vulnerable young people in educational contexts (2015)
Journal Article
Sellman, E. (2015). Safe spaces, support, social capital: a critical analysis of artists working with vulnerable young people in educational contexts. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 34(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12026

This article provides a critical and thematic analysis of three research projects involving artists working with vulnerable young people in educational contexts. It argues that artists create safe spaces in contrast to traditional educational activit... Read More about Safe spaces, support, social capital: a critical analysis of artists working with vulnerable young people in educational contexts.

Dynamic framing in the communication of scientific research: texts and interactions (2015)
Journal Article
Davis, P., & Russ, R. S. (2015). Dynamic framing in the communication of scientific research: texts and interactions. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 52(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21189

The fields of science education and science communication share the overarching goal of helping non-experts and non-members of the professional science community develop knowledge of the content and processes of scientific research. However, the spec... Read More about Dynamic framing in the communication of scientific research: texts and interactions.

Bringing installation art to reconnaissance to share values and generate action (2015)
Journal Article
with the ‘Get Wet’ team, Townsend, A., & Thomson, P. (2015). Bringing installation art to reconnaissance to share values and generate action. Educational Action Research, 23(1), 36-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2014.994013

The English education system has recently seen something of a revival of enthusiasm for the use of research both to develop educational practices and to gather evidence about their effectiveness. These initiatives often present action research as a m... Read More about Bringing installation art to reconnaissance to share values and generate action.

Understanding Reading (2015)
Book Chapter
Hall, C. (2015). Understanding Reading. In S. Brindley, & B. Marshall (Eds.), Master Class in English Education: transforming teaching and learningBloomsbury Academic

Vocational education and training for human development (2015)
Book Chapter
MCGRATH, S. (2015). Vocational education and training for human development. In S. McGrath (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of International Education and Development. Routledge

Vocational education and training (VET) almost slipped off the development agenda after 2000. Excluded from the Millennium Development Goals and marginalised in the Education for All debate, the dominant policy and research view of VET was that it wa... Read More about Vocational education and training for human development.

Re-conceptualising conceptual understanding in mathematics (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kent, G., & Foster, C. (2015). Re-conceptualising conceptual understanding in mathematics.

In this theoretical paper we explore interrelationships between conceptual and procedural understanding of mathematics in the context of individuals and groups. We question the enterprise of attempting to assess learners’ mathematical understanding b... Read More about Re-conceptualising conceptual understanding in mathematics.

Implementing person centred dementia care: a musical intervention (2015)
Journal Article
Argyle, E., & Kelly, T. (2015). Implementing person centred dementia care: a musical intervention. Working with Older People, 19(2), https://doi.org/10.1108/WWOP-12-2014-0041

Purpose - Recent years have seen the advocacy of person centred approaches to dementia care. An important component of this approach has been the use of arts in the promotion of health and wellbeing. However, relatively little attention has been gi... Read More about Implementing person centred dementia care: a musical intervention.

Creative practice in a group setting (2015)
Journal Article
Argyle, E., & Winship, G. (2015). Creative practice in a group setting. Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 19(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/MHSI-04-2015-0014

Purpose – Involvement in creative practice is commonly regarded as “therapeutic” but what is actually meant by this and how does this work promote social inclusion and mental well-being, particularly when performed in a group setting? Drawing on the... Read More about Creative practice in a group setting.

The new English A Levels 2015: a guide to the specs (2015)
Journal Article
Cushing, I., Giovanelli, M., & Snapper, G. (2015). The new English A Levels 2015: a guide to the specs. Teaching English in the Two-Year College,

Ian Cushing, Marcello Giovanelli and Gary Snapper summarise the changes at A Level from September 2015 and explore the features of each of the new specs in all three A Level English subjects.

‘Well I don’t feel that’: schemas, worlds and authentic reading in the classroom (2015)
Journal Article
Giovanelli, M., & Mason, J. (2015). ‘Well I don’t feel that’: schemas, worlds and authentic reading in the classroom. English in Education, 49(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/eie.12052

This article explores reading in the English classroom through a cognitive linguistic lens. In particular, we consider how students’ ability to engage with a text, which we term authentic reading, can be facilitated or restricted. We draw on two case... Read More about ‘Well I don’t feel that’: schemas, worlds and authentic reading in the classroom.

The idea of the university in the early work of R.H. Tawney (2015)
Book Chapter
Holford, J. (2015). The idea of the university in the early work of R.H. Tawney. In R. Stoilova, K. Petkova, & S. Koleva (Eds.), Knowledge as a value, scientific knowledge as a vocation: Jubilee collection in honour of Professor Pepka Boyadjieva. Iztok-Zapad

Designing formative assessment lessons for concept development and problem solving (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Swan, M. (2015). Designing formative assessment lessons for concept development and problem solving.

Formative assessment is the process by which teachers and students gather evidence of learning and then use this to adapt the way they teach and learn. I describe a design research project in which we integrated formative assessment strategies into l... Read More about Designing formative assessment lessons for concept development and problem solving.

Introduction (2015)
Book Chapter
Del Nevo, M., & Winship, G. (2015). Introduction. In Sex and religion: two texts of early feminist psychoanalysis. Transaction