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International Approaches to Teacher Selection and Recruitment; OECD Education Working Papers No. 47 (2010)
Journal Article
Hobson, A. J., Ashby, P., McIntyre, J., & Malderez, A. (2010). International Approaches to Teacher Selection and Recruitment; OECD Education Working Papers No. 47. 00 Journal not listed, https://doi.org/10.1787/19939019

This report presents the findings of our review of the evidence base on comparative practices of teacher selection and recruitment, specifically on the different mechanisms countries use to assess teacher readiness to take up teaching posts, with par... Read More about International Approaches to Teacher Selection and Recruitment; OECD Education Working Papers No. 47.

Why they sat still: the ideas and values of long-serving teachers in challenging inner-city schools in England (2010)
Journal Article
McIntyre, J. (2010). Why they sat still: the ideas and values of long-serving teachers in challenging inner-city schools in England. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 16(5), 595--614. https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2010.507968

Within the UK there are grave concerns about retention and attrition rates within the teaching profession, particularly in challenging schools. These are compounded by worries about the gap that will be left as long-serving teachers reach retirement... Read More about Why they sat still: the ideas and values of long-serving teachers in challenging inner-city schools in England.

Literacy, power, and the schooled body: Learning in time and space (2010)
Book
Dixon, K. (2010). Literacy, power, and the schooled body: Learning in time and space. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203851487

What effects do space and time have on classroom management, discipline, and regulation? How do teachers’ practices create schooled and literate students? To explore these questions, this book looks at early childhood classrooms, charting the shifts... Read More about Literacy, power, and the schooled body: Learning in time and space.

On the relevance of the mathematics curriculum to young people (2010)
Journal Article
Sealey, P., & Noyes, A. (2010). On the relevance of the mathematics curriculum to young people. Curriculum Journal, 21(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/09585176.2010.504573

In this paper we draw upon focus group data from a large study of learner trajectories through 14-19 mathematics education to think about the notion of relevance in the mathematics curriculum. Drawing on data from three socially distanced sites we e... Read More about On the relevance of the mathematics curriculum to young people.

Self-access language learning in museums: a materials development project (2010)
Journal Article
Cooker, L., & Pemberton, R. (2010). Self-access language learning in museums: a materials development project. Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 1(2),

This paper reports on a project carried out at The University of Nottingham to create and evaluate English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) materials with the aim of exploiting the self-access language learning possibilities that museums offer.... Read More about Self-access language learning in museums: a materials development project.

Confronting similar challenges? Disabled and non‐disabled students’ learning and assessment experiences (2010)
Journal Article
Madriaga, M., Hanson, K., Heaton, C., Kay, H., Newitt, S., & Walker, A. (2010). Confronting similar challenges? Disabled and non‐disabled students’ learning and assessment experiences. Studies in Higher Education, 35(6), 647-658. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070903222633

The article presents evidence from a systematic survey of disabled (n = 172) and non-disabled (n = 312) students regarding their learning and assessment experiences within one higher education institution in the UK. This study builds upon previous wo... Read More about Confronting similar challenges? Disabled and non‐disabled students’ learning and assessment experiences.

Conditions for linking school mathematics and moral education: a case study (2010)
Journal Article
Falkenberg, T., & Noyes, A. (2010). Conditions for linking school mathematics and moral education: a case study. Teaching and Teacher Education, 26(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2009.10.036

In recent years the mathematics education research community has undergone a social turn towards a greater interest in the values and broader educational purposes of mathematics education, including issues of social justice and citizenship education.... Read More about Conditions for linking school mathematics and moral education: a case study.

From poster to PhD: The evolution of a literature review (2010)
Book Chapter
Dixon, K., & Janks, H. (2010). From poster to PhD: The evolution of a literature review. In M. Walker, & P. Thomson (Eds.), The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor's Companion: Supporting Effective Research in Education and the Social Sciences. Routledge

A literature review evolves. At first the literature constitutes the research, then it is constituted by it. The story of the evolution of the literature review for Kerryn’s research is intertwined with the story of her evolving relationship with Hila... Read More about From poster to PhD: The evolution of a literature review.

Images of Criminality, Victimization, and Disability (2010)
Book Chapter
Madriaga, M., & Mallett, R. (2010). Images of Criminality, Victimization, and Disability. In S. Giora Shoham, P. Knepper, & M. Kett (Eds.), International Handbook of Victimology. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1201/ebk1420085471-c22

This chapter aims to open up discussion about the relationship between disability and notions of criminality and victimhood. Th is discussion is underpinned with a radical-critical victimological stance [Mawby and Walklate, 1994] that sees the victim... Read More about Images of Criminality, Victimization, and Disability.

‘I avoid pubs and the student union like the plague’: Students with Asperger Syndrome and their negotiation of university spaces (2010)
Journal Article
Madriaga, M. (2010). ‘I avoid pubs and the student union like the plague’: Students with Asperger Syndrome and their negotiation of university spaces. Children's Geographies, 8(1), 39-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733280903500166

Research was conducted to gain insight into the lives of students with Asperger Syndrome (AS) during their transitions into higher education. Eight students were recruited from across the United Kingdom to partake in a year-long longitudinal study th... Read More about ‘I avoid pubs and the student union like the plague’: Students with Asperger Syndrome and their negotiation of university spaces.

Continuing to care for people with dementia: Irish family carers' experience of their relative's transition to a nursing home (2010)
Book
Argyle, E., Downs, M., & Tasker, J. (2010). Continuing to care for people with dementia: Irish family carers' experience of their relative's transition to a nursing home. University of Bradford

The purpose of this study is to describe carers’ experience of the transition of their relative who has dementia to nursing home care. It is intended that this will provide evidence-based guidance for the development of initiatives to support carers.... Read More about Continuing to care for people with dementia: Irish family carers' experience of their relative's transition to a nursing home.

The pragmatics of education journals: the case of the International Journal of Educational Development (2010)
Journal Article
McGrath, S., & Mason, M. (2010). The pragmatics of education journals: the case of the International Journal of Educational Development

This article discusses some of the pragmatics and politics of academic journal publishing within the context of the contemporary higher education and publishing political economy. The case of the International Journal of Educational Development(IJED)... Read More about The pragmatics of education journals: the case of the International Journal of Educational Development.

The role of education in development: an educationalist’s response to some recent work in development economics (2010)
Journal Article
McGrath, S. (2010). The role of education in development: an educationalist’s response to some recent work in development economics. Comparative Education, 46(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/03050061003775553

This paper delves beneath the widespread belief that education (often repackaged as human capital) is important in development to consider the role that the discipline
of education plays in shaping the wider discourses of development. In particular,... Read More about The role of education in development: an educationalist’s response to some recent work in development economics.

Vorsprung durch Technik: multi-display learning spaces and art-historical method (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bligh, B., & Lorenz, K. Vorsprung durch Technik: multi-display learning spaces and art-historical method. Presented at Technology and 'the death of Art History' CHArt Annual Conference

The trajectory and heuristic success of Art History as a discipline has always been inseparably linked to the technical means of visualizing the material that is at its core. When in the late 19th century first analogous, then double-slide projection... Read More about Vorsprung durch Technik: multi-display learning spaces and art-historical method.