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Evaluation of a quality assurance framework for promoting quality research, innovation and development in higher education institutions in Zimbabwe (2021)
Journal Article
Thondhlana, J., & Garwe, E. (2021). Evaluation of a quality assurance framework for promoting quality research, innovation and development in higher education institutions in Zimbabwe. Journal of the British Academy, 9(Supplementary issue 1), 127-157. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/009s1.127

In the spirit of quality assurance, this paper presents a self-evaluation and peer review of the external quality assurance framework for research implemented by the national quality assurance agency for Zimbabwe. Documentary analysis and semi-struct... Read More about Evaluation of a quality assurance framework for promoting quality research, innovation and development in higher education institutions in Zimbabwe.

What can the African diaspora contribute to innovation and knowledge creation? The case study of Zimbabwean innovators (2021)
Journal Article
Madziva, R., Thondhlana, J., & Garwe, E. (2022). What can the African diaspora contribute to innovation and knowledge creation? The case study of Zimbabwean innovators. Journal of the British Academy, 9s1(1), 101-125. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/009s1.101

The importance of diaspora and transnational knowledge production, innovation, and development is of growing interest, particularly in the developing world. The phenomenal increase in high human capital migration from poor to rich countries has histo... Read More about What can the African diaspora contribute to innovation and knowledge creation? The case study of Zimbabwean innovators.

Compounded Exclusion: Education for Disabled Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020)
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Walton, E., McIntyre, J., Awidi, S. J., De Wet-Billings, N., Dixon, K., Madziva, R., …Wedekind, V. (2020). Compounded Exclusion: Education for Disabled Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa. Frontiers in Education, 5, Article 47. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00047

International conventions acknowledge the right of refugees and of disabled people to access quality inclusive education. Both groups struggle to assert this right, particularly in the Global South, where educational access may be hindered by system... Read More about Compounded Exclusion: Education for Disabled Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Language Counts when Learning Mathematics with Interactive Apps (2020)
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Outhwaite, L., Gulliford, A., & Pitchford, N. (2020). Language Counts when Learning Mathematics with Interactive Apps. British Journal of Educational Technology, 51(6), 2326-2339. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12912

When available in multiple languages, educational apps can deliver the same mathematics instruction in the child’s first language or different language of instruction. This pilot study examined the feasibility of efficacy of a maths app intervention... Read More about Language Counts when Learning Mathematics with Interactive Apps.

The pedagogical logics of arts-rich schools: a Bourdieusian analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., Hall, C., Earl, L., & Geppert, C. (2019). The pedagogical logics of arts-rich schools: a Bourdieusian analysis. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40(2), 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2018.1554474

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The arts are under threat in English schools. But some schools and teachers work against the trend. To understand how they continue to offer rich arts experiences to students, we... Read More about The pedagogical logics of arts-rich schools: a Bourdieusian analysis.

Subject choice as everyday accommodation/resistance: why students in England (still) choose the arts (2018)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., Hall, C., Earl, L., & Geppert, C. (2020). Subject choice as everyday accommodation/resistance: why students in England (still) choose the arts. Critical Studies in Education, 61(5), 545-560. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2018.1525754

High school students are expected to make choices about which subjects they study. These choices are not completely open but steered by what is on offer, previous achievement and conversations with teachers, family and friends; choices are patterned... Read More about Subject choice as everyday accommodation/resistance: why students in England (still) choose the arts.