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Charros in Texas and Gauchos in Argentina: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Historical Artifacts (2021)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. C., Domínguez, Y., Gooch, S., & Pacheco, A. (2021). Charros in Texas and Gauchos in Argentina: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Historical Artifacts. International Journal of Design in Society, 15(1), 25-44. https://doi.org/10.18848/2325-1328/CGP/V15I01/25-44

The objective of this article is to examine media representations of charros in Texas and gauchos in Argentina from the 1930s in order to uncover any sociohistorical parallels between these two groups. Two sets of artifacts were analyzed using a soci... Read More about Charros in Texas and Gauchos in Argentina: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Historical Artifacts.

Open Educational Resources in Heritage and L2 Spanish Classrooms: Design, Development and Implementation (2021)
Book Chapter
Zapata, G. C., & Ribota, A. (2021). Open Educational Resources in Heritage and L2 Spanish Classrooms: Design, Development and Implementation. In C. S. Blyth, & J. J. Thoms (Eds.), Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology (25-46). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800411005-003

In this chapter, we examine the application of the multiliteracies pedagogy Learning by Design (Cope & Kalantzis, 2015; Kalantzis et al., 2005, 2016) to the design of open educational resources (OER) for the teaching of Spanish as a herit... Read More about Open Educational Resources in Heritage and L2 Spanish Classrooms: Design, Development and Implementation.

Policy decoupling in strategic response to the double world-class project: evidence from elite universities in China (2021)
Journal Article
Song, J., Chu, Z., & Xu, Y. (2021). Policy decoupling in strategic response to the double world-class project: evidence from elite universities in China. Higher Education, 82(2), 255-272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00642-y

Creating world-class universities (WCUs) has recently become a significant policy and practice in higher education in China under the Double World-Class Project. However, some negative effects have encouraged decoupling from the policy goals. To iden... Read More about Policy decoupling in strategic response to the double world-class project: evidence from elite universities in China.

Mindfulness ‘in’ Education as a form of Iatrogenesis (2021)
Journal Article
Brito, R., Joseph, S., & Sellman, E. (2021). Mindfulness ‘in’ Education as a form of Iatrogenesis. Journal of Transformative Education, 19(3), 261-283. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541344620987231

Mindfulness-based Interventions (MBIs) can result in positive ‘side-effects’, such as concentration and individual well-being, highly desirable to schools operating within a neoliberalist agenda emphasizing performativity. However, employing a critic... Read More about Mindfulness ‘in’ Education as a form of Iatrogenesis.

'Do you miss kimchi?’: A collaborative arts-based narrative of education and migration (2021)
Book Chapter
Müller, M., Kruger, F., & Jeong, J. (2021). 'Do you miss kimchi?’: A collaborative arts-based narrative of education and migration. In J. Kurzwelly, & L. Escobedo (Eds.), Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, South Africa (132-150). HSRC Press

This chapter is an exploration of education and migration. The purpose of our exploration is twofold: firstly, to consider how the concepts of becoming, event and affect allow us to think differently about subjectivity in relation to education and mi... Read More about 'Do you miss kimchi?’: A collaborative arts-based narrative of education and migration.

‘Possible Selves’ in practice: how students at Further Education Colleges in England conceptualise university (2021)
Journal Article
Jones, S., Hordósy, R., Mittelmeier, J., Quyoum, A., & McCaldin, T. (2022). ‘Possible Selves’ in practice: how students at Further Education Colleges in England conceptualise university. Research Papers in Education, 37(6), 757-772. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2020.1864765

© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper reports on a project in the North of England that looks at the college-to-university decision-making processes of non-traditional students through the conceptual lens of ‘Poss... Read More about ‘Possible Selves’ in practice: how students at Further Education Colleges in England conceptualise university.

How are Heads of English responding to policy changes in the English school system? (2021)
Journal Article
Perry, J. (2021). How are Heads of English responding to policy changes in the English school system?. English in Education, 55(4), 301-312. https://doi.org/10.1080/04250494.2021.1873069

Changes to education policy in England since 2010 have led teachers to reflect on what and how they teach. Heads of English departments have had particular need to review their work, but have been overlooked in the research literature. This paper pre... Read More about How are Heads of English responding to policy changes in the English school system?.

The Bloomsbury handbook of the internationalization of higher education in the Global South (2021)
Book
Thondhlana, J., Chiyevo Garwe, E., de Wit, H., Gacel-Ávila, J., Huang, F., & Tamrat, W. (Eds.). (2021). The Bloomsbury handbook of the internationalization of higher education in the Global South. Bloomsbury Publishing

This Handbook covers a wide range of historical perspectives, realities, research and practice of internationalization of higher education (IHE) in the global south and makes comparisons to IHE issues in the global north. Drawing on the expertise of... Read More about The Bloomsbury handbook of the internationalization of higher education in the Global South.

Learning by Drawing Visual Representations: Potential, Purposes, and Practical Implications (2021)
Journal Article
Ainsworth, S. E., & Scheiter, K. (2021). Learning by Drawing Visual Representations: Potential, Purposes, and Practical Implications. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(1), 61-67. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420979582

The technique of drawing to learn has received increasing attention in recent years. In this article, we will present distinct purposes for using drawing that are based on active, constructive, and interactive forms of engagement. In doing so, we hop... Read More about Learning by Drawing Visual Representations: Potential, Purposes, and Practical Implications.

Psychological Formulation, a Critical Viewpoint: Illness Ideology in Disguise (2021)
Journal Article
Joseph, S. (2022). Psychological Formulation, a Critical Viewpoint: Illness Ideology in Disguise. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 62(5), 683-693. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167820985411

Recent years have seen a surge of interest by clinical psychologists in the idea of psychological formulation. Interest in this idea has also been shown by humanistic psychologists as evidenced by a recent issue of this journal, in which formulation... Read More about Psychological Formulation, a Critical Viewpoint: Illness Ideology in Disguise.

Conclusion: The state of internationalization of higher education in sub-Saharan Africa (2021)
Book Chapter
Thondhlana, J., Abdulrahman, H., Evelyn, G., & Sabelo, N. (2021). Conclusion: The state of internationalization of higher education in sub-Saharan Africa. In J. Thondhlana, E. Chiyevo Garwe, H. de Wit, J. Gacel-Ávila, F. Huang, & W. Tamrat (Eds.), The Bloomsbury handbook of the internationalization of higher education in the Global South (585-595). Bloomsbury Publishing

Salient issues in the internationalization of higher education in the Global South, concluding observations (2021)
Book Chapter
Thondhlana, J., Garwe, E., & de Wit, H. (2021). Salient issues in the internationalization of higher education in the Global South, concluding observations. In J. Thondhlana, E. Chiyevo Garwe, H. de Wit, J. Gacel-Ávila, F. Huang, & W. Tamrat (Eds.), The Bloomsbury handbook of the internationalization of higher education in the Global South (596-609). Bloomsbury Publishing

Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities (2021)
Journal Article
Myers, M., & Bhopal, K. (2021). Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42(5-6), 701-716. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2021.1941763

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s analysis of the competition for economic, social and cultural capitals within educational fields, this article reports empirical research from 49 in-depth interviews with graduate students at four elite universities in th... Read More about Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities.

Journaling: A More Mindful Approach to Researching a Mindfulness-Based Intervention in a Junior School (2021)
Journal Article
Joseph, S., Sellman, E., & Crawford, A. (2021). Journaling: A More Mindful Approach to Researching a Mindfulness-Based Intervention in a Junior School. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20, Article 160940692110147. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211014771

Mindfulness, often defined as present-moment awareness, has in recent years become a topic of multidisciplinary interest. This article addresses methodological issues for researching mindfulness and education. It is argued that there are advantages t... Read More about Journaling: A More Mindful Approach to Researching a Mindfulness-Based Intervention in a Junior School.

Rethinking ‘International Perspective’ in Education Studies: ‘Knowing’ education in the global era (2020)
Book Chapter
Yuan, T. (2020). Rethinking ‘International Perspective’ in Education Studies: ‘Knowing’ education in the global era. In C. A. Simon, & G. Downes (Eds.), Sociology for Education Studies: Connecting Theory, Settings and Everyday Experiences. Routledge

This chapter explores the knowledge of ‘education’ at an international level. The concept of ‘education’ is becoming increasingly complex in the context of modernisation and globalisation. The chapter deals with a historical review of the changing in... Read More about Rethinking ‘International Perspective’ in Education Studies: ‘Knowing’ education in the global era.

Unpacking the purposes and potential of interdisciplinary STEM (2020)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M., & Tytler, R. (2020). Unpacking the purposes and potential of interdisciplinary STEM. In N. Mansour, & H. EL-Deghaidy (Eds.), STEM in Science Education and S in STEM (242-268). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004446076_011

This chapter traces the development of STEM advocacy as a globalizing modernist discourse based in national competitive wealth creation agendas. It therefore addresses the drivers for STEM in schools by way of understanding state and industry intenti... Read More about Unpacking the purposes and potential of interdisciplinary STEM.