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Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching and Learning Data Literacy through Art (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Matuk, C., DesPortes, K., Amato, A., Silander, M., Vacca, R., Vasudevan, V., & Woods, P. J. (2021, June). Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching and Learning Data Literacy through Art. Presented at 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2021, Bochum, Germany (online)

Achieving data literacy is challenging when schools narrowly focus on statistical reasoning rather than on meaning- and inference-making. Without attention to the social contexts of data, learners can fail to develop a critical stance toward data, to... Read More about Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching and Learning Data Literacy through Art.

(Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Swanson, D. M., & le Roux, K. (2021, September). (Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education. Presented at Eleventh International Mathematics Education and Society Conference, Austria

Contemporary discourse about the ‘opening’/‘closing’ of schools and what is ‘inside’/‘outside’ the curriculum potentially exacerbates existing inequities in mathematics education. This paper explores how different spatial imaginaries might advance or... Read More about (Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education.

Polyvocal Poetic Play with Dialogue: Co-creativity in Self-Study Writing (2021)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Samaras, A. P. (2021). Polyvocal Poetic Play with Dialogue: Co-creativity in Self-Study Writing. In J. Kitchen (Ed.), Writing as a Method for the Self-Study of Practice (137-154). Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2498-8_8

We are teacher educators who facilitate and participate in transdisciplinary self-study research communities in our respective home countries of South Africa and the United States of America. Our comparable experiences first brought us together in 20... Read More about Polyvocal Poetic Play with Dialogue: Co-creativity in Self-Study Writing.

Evaluation of an enhanced training package to support clinical trials training in low and middle income countries (LMICs): experiences from the Born Too Soon Optimising Nutrition study (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Mitchell, E. J., Aluvaala, J., Bradshaw, L., Daniels, J., Kumar, A., Opira, J., Oliver, M., Pallotti, P., Qureshi, Z., Swinden, R., Were, F., & Ojha, S. Evaluation of an enhanced training package to support clinical trials training in low and middle income countries (LMICs): experiences from the Born Too Soon Optimising Nutrition study

Training is essential before working on a clinical trial, yet there is limited evidence on effective training methods. In low and middle income countries (LMICs), training of research staff was considered the second highest priority in a global healt... Read More about Evaluation of an enhanced training package to support clinical trials training in low and middle income countries (LMICs): experiences from the Born Too Soon Optimising Nutrition study.

Engaging with parents in decision-making: The dilemma of the ideal and reality (2021)
Journal Article
Durgungoz, F. C., & Emerson, A. (2022). Engaging with parents in decision-making: The dilemma of the ideal and reality. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 25(3), 396-411. https://doi.org/10.1080/2050571X.2021.2014704

Purpose: Recent studies suggest professionals engage with parents; however, literature shows that, in practice, there is a gap between what a parent’s role might be and their actual role in the intervention process. This study aims to close this gap... Read More about Engaging with parents in decision-making: The dilemma of the ideal and reality.

Infantographies (2021)
Journal Article
Tesar, M., Guerrero, M. R., Anttila, E., Newberry, J., Hellman, A., Wall, J., Santiago-Saamong, C. R., Bodén, L., Yu, H., Nanakida, A., Diaz-Diaz, C., Xu, Y., Trnka, S., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Nxumalo, F., Millei, Z., Malone, K., & Arndt, S. (2021). Infantographies. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2009341

Being and becoming human in higher education: A co-autoethnographic inquiry (2021)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., Pillay, D., & Naicker, I. (2021). Being and becoming human in higher education: A co-autoethnographic inquiry. In E. Lyle (Ed.), Re/humanizing education (31-42). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507593_004

We are South African academics in teacher development studies and educational leadership and management. In this chapter, we inquire, what have we learned through our autoethnographic explorations for re/humanizing learning and teaching, academic sel... Read More about Being and becoming human in higher education: A co-autoethnographic inquiry.

When reforms make things worse: school leadership responses to poverty, disasters, and cultures of crises in the Philippine education system (2021)
Journal Article
Reyes, V., Hamid, M. O., & Hardy, I. (2022). When reforms make things worse: school leadership responses to poverty, disasters, and cultures of crises in the Philippine education system. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 25(2), 331-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2021.2009038

This article explores the sense-making experiences of one specific stakeholder group in education reform–school leaders–who find themselves wedged by significant material challenges, on the one hand, and disparate reform efforts, on the other hand. T... Read More about When reforms make things worse: school leadership responses to poverty, disasters, and cultures of crises in the Philippine education system.

Academic Identities as Epicentres for Social Cohesiveness in Higher Education (2021)
Journal Article
Pillay, D., Chisanga, T., Hiralaal, A., Masinga, L., Naicker, I., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2021). Academic Identities as Epicentres for Social Cohesiveness in Higher Education. Alternation, 28(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n2a1

This themed issue of Alternation explores how and why academics from multiple knowledge fields in South Africa and the United States of America (USA) position themselves vis-à-vis social cohesion in their everyday lives and educational practices. The... Read More about Academic Identities as Epicentres for Social Cohesiveness in Higher Education.

Lessons from a Shanghai reading lesson (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Medwell, J., Lei, M., & Wray, D. (2021, November). Lessons from a Shanghai reading lesson. Presented at 14th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2021), Online

In recent years the influence of the “high performing” Asian cultures has been felt in UK education, particularly in mathematics teaching. However, China, and in paticular the region of Shanghai, also does exceptionally well in teaching the reading o... Read More about Lessons from a Shanghai reading lesson.

Mapping out the landscape of literature on assessment in engineering education (2021)
Journal Article
Halls, J. G., Tomás, C., Owen, J. S., & Hawwash, K. (2022). Mapping out the landscape of literature on assessment in engineering education. European Journal of Engineering Education, 47(3), 373-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2021.2009775

Over recent decades, literature on assessment in higher education has intensified generating a wealth of frameworks to inform practice. Generic frameworks for assessment practice are sometimes perceived as missing subject-specific considerations. Thi... Read More about Mapping out the landscape of literature on assessment in engineering education.

Diversity and the Newbolt Report (2021)
Book Chapter
Perry, J. (2021). Diversity and the Newbolt Report. In A. Green (Ed.), The New Newbolt Report: One Hundred Years of Teaching English in England. Routledge

‘To start talking phonics is crazy’: how parents understand ‘literacy’ in the lives of children with learning disabilities (2021)
Journal Article
Doak, L. (2024). ‘To start talking phonics is crazy’: how parents understand ‘literacy’ in the lives of children with learning disabilities. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 32(1), 41-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2021.2010121

Children and young people with learning disabilities may not acquire the independent reading and writing skills which are con-flated with ‘literacy’ in international educational policy, calling into question what ‘literacy’ means in the context of ‘s... Read More about ‘To start talking phonics is crazy’: how parents understand ‘literacy’ in the lives of children with learning disabilities.