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Participation or eschewal? Final-year secondary school students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon (2022)
Journal Article
Zhao, T., & Xu, Y. (2022). Participation or eschewal? Final-year secondary school students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon. South African Journal of Education, 42(4), Article 2126. https://doi.org/10.15700/saje.v42n4a2126

In this article we examine students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon and consider the role of personal and socioeconomic factors in their post-school educational trajectories. The data were drawn from a questionnaire s... Read More about Participation or eschewal? Final-year secondary school students’ attitudes towards participation in higher education in Cameroon.

Working with complexity: Leading school networks in Aotearoa New Zealand and England (2022)
Journal Article
Greany, T., & Kamp, A. (2022). Working with complexity: Leading school networks in Aotearoa New Zealand and England. Educational Management Administration and Leadership, https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432221124746

Inter-school networks have been promoted in many school systems globally to facilitate: knowledge generation and dissemination; responsiveness to increasingly diverse student and societal needs; and emotional and practical peer support for educationa... Read More about Working with complexity: Leading school networks in Aotearoa New Zealand and England.

Academic Career Development of Chinese Returnees With Overseas Ph.D. Degrees: A Bioecological Development Perspective (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, D., Xu, Y., Zhao, T., & Che, S. (2022). Academic Career Development of Chinese Returnees With Overseas Ph.D. Degrees: A Bioecological Development Perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 859240. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.859240

This study uses the bioecological model of human development to understand the academic career development of Chinese returnees with overseas Ph.D. degrees (CROPs). Focuses are placed on how CROPs engaged in this process through interactions with con... Read More about Academic Career Development of Chinese Returnees With Overseas Ph.D. Degrees: A Bioecological Development Perspective.

Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China (2022)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Schweisfurth, M., & Read, B. (2022). Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China. Comparative Education, 58(3), 345-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2022.2062950

At the global level, prominent narratives about improving the quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC) promote the recruitment of men into the profession. However, comparing across different policy and practice settings demonstrates contr... Read More about Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China.

The Storymaker Wheel: An investigation into how teachers and pupils can use a counter‐culture assessment tool to evaluate creative writing in the classroom (2021)
Journal Article
Elliott, J., & Southern, A. (2021). The Storymaker Wheel: An investigation into how teachers and pupils can use a counter‐culture assessment tool to evaluate creative writing in the classroom. Curriculum Journal, 32(4), 667-687. https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.112

This paper outlines the processes of creating a ‘Storymaker Wheel’, a creativity evaluation tool conceptualised with input from a children's book author, a children's book illustrator, academics and teachers, for teachers and pupils to use to support... Read More about The Storymaker Wheel: An investigation into how teachers and pupils can use a counter‐culture assessment tool to evaluate creative writing in the classroom.

Why is school-to-school collaboration important and how can we make it work? (2021)
Book Chapter
Greany, T. (2021). Why is school-to-school collaboration important and how can we make it work?. In Connecting Classrooms: Unlocking a world of potential - Leading the way (25-32). London: British Council

Networks, collaborations and partnerships between schools can take multiple forms and achieve multiple objectives. This can make them hard to make sense of – and even harder to lead and manage. Nevertheless, this chapter argues that policy makers sho... Read More about Why is school-to-school collaboration important and how can we make it work?.

Not just “implementation”: the synergy of research and practice in an engineering research approach to educational design and development (2020)
Journal Article
Burkhardt, H., & Schoenfeld, A. (2021). Not just “implementation”: the synergy of research and practice in an engineering research approach to educational design and development. ZDM, 53(5), 991-1005. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-020-01208-z

This paper builds on a range of traditions in educational research and design to argue, with empirical evidence, that constructing powerful instructional materials and approaches that work at scale requires a grounding in theory and a commitment to e... Read More about Not just “implementation”: the synergy of research and practice in an engineering research approach to educational design and development.

The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities (2020)
Journal Article
Amsler, S., & Simpson, D. (2020). The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities. Foucault Studies, 1(28), 36-70. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v1i28.6073

Applying Foucault's concepts of disciplinary power and technologies of the self to the experiences of social work academics in English universities, this articles reveals their carceral existences, arguing that social work academics and their student... Read More about The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities.

Using small world toys for research: a method for gaining insight into children’s lived experiences of school (2020)
Journal Article
Gripton, C., & Vincent, K. (2020). Using small world toys for research: a method for gaining insight into children’s lived experiences of school. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 44(3), 225-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2020.1753692

The importance of children’s perspectives is now well-established and there has been much attention afforded to appropriate methods for listening to children within the research. Whilst language-based research methods, such as interview, remain commo... Read More about Using small world toys for research: a method for gaining insight into children’s lived experiences of school.

Identity and digital equity: Reflections on a university educational technology course (2019)
Journal Article
McLay, K., & REYES, V. C. (2019). Identity and digital equity: Reflections on a university educational technology course. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 35(6), 15-29. https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.5552

This inquiry explored preservice teachers (PSTs) developing learner and professional identities while participating in a university course that explicitly incorporates the use of technology into teaching. The paper posits that it is important for ini... Read More about Identity and digital equity: Reflections on a university educational technology course.

Adult Education 100: reflections & reconstructions: conference proceedings 2019 (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Holford, J. (2019). Adult Education 100: reflections & reconstructions: conference proceedings 2019. In J. Holford (Ed.), Adult Education 100: reflections & reconstructions : conference proceedings 2019

Papers presented at the 49th Annual Conference of the Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults, held at the University of Nottingham, 2-4 July 2019

Identifying and developing therapeutic principles for trauma‐focused work in person‐centred and emotion‐focused therapies (2019)
Journal Article
Murphy, D., Elliott, R., & Carrick, L. (2019). Identifying and developing therapeutic principles for trauma‐focused work in person‐centred and emotion‐focused therapies. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 19(4), 497-507. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12235

The aim of this research was to identify facilitative therapeutic principles in person-centred and emotion-focused therapy for working with traumatised clients in the early stages of therapy. Four cases were selected from the Strathclyde Experiential... Read More about Identifying and developing therapeutic principles for trauma‐focused work in person‐centred and emotion‐focused therapies.

Transitioning primary school students with Autism Spectrum Disorder from a special education setting to a mainstream classroom: successes and difficulties (2019)
Journal Article
Martin, T., Dixon, R., Verenikina, I., & Costley, D. (2019). Transitioning primary school students with Autism Spectrum Disorder from a special education setting to a mainstream classroom: successes and difficulties. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2019.1568597

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are increasingly being educated in mainstream classroom environments. Commonly students commence their education in a segregated set... Read More about Transitioning primary school students with Autism Spectrum Disorder from a special education setting to a mainstream classroom: successes and difficulties.

The message or the bottle? Community, associationism and adult learning as “part of the process of social change” (2018)
Book Chapter
Clancy, S. (2018). The message or the bottle? Community, associationism and adult learning as “part of the process of social change”. In E. Boeren, & . N. James (Eds.), Being an adult learner in austere times : exploring the contexts of higher and community education (47-70). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97208-4_3

Raymond Williams argued that the “the impulse to adult education” was never solely focused on “remedying deficit, making up for inadequate educational resources in the wider society” (Williams, 1983, in McIlroy and Westwood (Eds), 1993, p. 257). Nor... Read More about The message or the bottle? Community, associationism and adult learning as “part of the process of social change”.

Creative practice with clay: a mutual route to recovery? (2018)
Journal Article
Argyle, E., & Winship, G. (2018). Creative practice with clay: a mutual route to recovery?. Journal of Applied Arts and Health, 9(3), 385-397. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah.9.3.385_1

This article summarises the findings of a project called ‘Clay Transformations’ and was part of the Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery Programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Using a mixed methods approach, the project aimed t... Read More about Creative practice with clay: a mutual route to recovery?.

Relearning liberation: critical methodologies for the general crisis (2018)
Journal Article
Amsler, S., & Weiss-Hanrahan, N. (2018). Relearning liberation: critical methodologies for the general crisis. Berlin Journal of Critical Theory, 2(4), 55-73

How can critical theory help us to articulate the nature of social suffering in twenty-first century capitalism, and to expand our horizons of possibility for liberation and alternative futures at a moment of apparent impasse? In this essay, we explo... Read More about Relearning liberation: critical methodologies for the general crisis.

Measuring privatisation in education: methodological challenges and possibilities (2018)
Journal Article
Winchip, E., Stevenson, H., & Milner, A. (2019). Measuring privatisation in education: methodological challenges and possibilities. Educational Review, 71(1), 81-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2019.1524197

© 2018, © 2018 Educational Review. As the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) spreads, key questions that attempt to identify both the nature and the increasing scope and scale of this phenomenon become empirically significant. The concern of thi... Read More about Measuring privatisation in education: methodological challenges and possibilities.