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Engaging low-income families in education research: examining the challenges in Beijing and London (2024)
Journal Article
Hoskins, K., Wainwright, E., Arabaci, R., Zhai, J., Gao, J., & Xu, Y. (2024). Engaging low-income families in education research: examining the challenges in Beijing and London. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2024.2429825

This comparative paper considers the similar challenges encountered in Beijing (China) and Greater London (England) when engaging low-income families in education research. Through semi-structured interviews with 10 parents/caregivers in Beijing and... Read More about Engaging low-income families in education research: examining the challenges in Beijing and London.

Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly? (2024)
Report
Ochang, P., Eke, D., Stahl, B., Buckley, . M., Poder, I., & Hughes, J. (2024). Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly?. ESPRC and RAI UK

Generative AI is changing the way our economies and businesses operate, and SMEs could be receiving more benefits from this transition. Over the past 12 months in the Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa (RAISE) project we have been wo... Read More about Small and medium enterprises will use generative AI. But how can they be helped to implement it properly?.

Doctoral memes as public pedagogy? Or, heaven knows I’m miserable now (2024)
Journal Article
Thomson, P. (2024). Doctoral memes as public pedagogy? Or, heaven knows I’m miserable now. Studies in Continuing Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/0158037X.2024.2417095

Social media afford the proliferation of doctoral memes across numerous, generally anonymous, accounts spread over multiple platforms-the timeline where the PhD candidate starts off gleaming with health and beaming in delight and ends up an overweigh... Read More about Doctoral memes as public pedagogy? Or, heaven knows I’m miserable now.

Researching the everyday educational lives of low-income families: the importance of researcher and participant contexts (2024)
Journal Article
Wainwright, E., Hoskins, K., Arabaci, R., Zhai, J., Gao, J., & Xu, Y. (2024). Researching the everyday educational lives of low-income families: the importance of researcher and participant contexts. British Journal of Educational Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2024.2378053

This paper highlights the importance of considering both researcher and participant contexts when exploring everyday educational lives. It emerges during a period of increasing and sustained social inequality in England, and against a backdrop of inc... Read More about Researching the everyday educational lives of low-income families: the importance of researcher and participant contexts.

Why bother with arts education in schools? (2024)
Journal Article
Thomson, P. (2024). Why bother with arts education in schools?. Australian Educational Researcher, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00741-0

Enrolments in school arts subjects are falling in both England and Australia. There are various arguments made in an attempt to reverse the situation. The arts are said to be vital for the economy, linked to success in core school subjects, are educa... Read More about Why bother with arts education in schools?.

Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage (2024)
Journal Article
Davis, C., Matthews, A., Mihut, G., Mottershaw, S., Hawkins, J., Rivlin, P., & Matthews, B. (2024). Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage. Qualitative Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941241245954

Composite storytelling as a social qualitative research method represents a growing spirit of creativity to explore themes of social injustice. This article discusses the potential methodological affordances and challenges of such approaches when use... Read More about Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage.

“Imaginative, embodied scholarly assemblages”: A poetic analysis of the Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group scholarship (2024)
Journal Article
Pithouse-Morgan, K., Pillay, D., Naicker, I., & van Laren, L. (2024). “Imaginative, embodied scholarly assemblages”: A poetic analysis of the Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group scholarship. Journal of education (University KwaZulu-natal), 2024(94), 65-83. https://doi.org/10.17159/2520-9868/i94a05

The Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group (SIG) of the South African Education Research Association (SAERA) has been active since 2014, with over 100 academics from more than 20 higher education institutions participating. The 10th Anni... Read More about “Imaginative, embodied scholarly assemblages”: A poetic analysis of the Self-Reflexive Methodologies Special Interest Group scholarship.

Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North (2024)
Book
van Rooyen, H., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2024). Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North. HSRC Press

Poetic Inquiry for the Human and Social Sciences: Voices from the South and North enriches human and social science research by introducing new voices, insights, and epistemologies. Poetic inquiry, or poetry as research, is a literary and performance... Read More about Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North.

Self-Study as a Movement and Methodology for Inside-Out Educational Change: Foundations, Characteristics, and Exemplars (2024)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., Kortjass, M., & Mkhize-Mthembu, N. Self-Study as a Movement and Methodology for Inside-Out Educational Change: Foundations, Characteristics, and Exemplars. In The BERA-SAGE International Handbook of Research-Informed Education Policy and Practice (1-19). SAGE Publications

This chapter traces the evolution of the self-study research field since the 1990s, highlighting it as a growing force for change among education practitioners and scholars. It examines the historical backdrop of the field and identifies a set of eig... Read More about Self-Study as a Movement and Methodology for Inside-Out Educational Change: Foundations, Characteristics, and Exemplars.

Exploring the value of family shared reading with young people who have Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) (2024)
Journal Article
Doak, L. (2024). Exploring the value of family shared reading with young people who have Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD). Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, https://doi.org/10.1177/14687984241235124

Shared reading with young children is promoted as good practice in national and international policy. Existing literature explores cognitive and developmental benefits of family shared reading for young, typically developing children, but much less i... Read More about Exploring the value of family shared reading with young people who have Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD).

Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age – ‘To Open the Immortal Eye' (2023)
Book
Clancy, S. (2023). Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age – ‘To Open the Immortal Eye'. (1). Palgrave Macmillan

This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult Education College (1948-1976) and the tenure of Sir George Trevelyan as its first warden. Trevelyan i... Read More about Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age – ‘To Open the Immortal Eye'.

Who studies religion? Towards a better conversation between Theology, Religious Studies, and Religious Education (2023)
Journal Article
Benoit, C., & Hutchings, T. (2023). Who studies religion? Towards a better conversation between Theology, Religious Studies, and Religious Education. Journal of Religious Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40839-023-00213-0

This paper calls for better integration between the fields of Theology and Religious Studies (TRS) and Religious Education (RE). Positive reform in RE requires integration between educational theory, policy, and practice, but we argue that the academ... Read More about Who studies religion? Towards a better conversation between Theology, Religious Studies, and Religious Education.

Rethinking qualitative data analysis in a co-creative experimental approach (2023)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., & Samaras, A. P. (2023). Rethinking qualitative data analysis in a co-creative experimental approach. In J. DeHart, & P. Hash (Eds.), Arts-Based Research Across Textual Media in Education (12-27). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003294597-2

We are self-study research methodologists and teacher educators working across continents to enhance and broaden professional learning, knowledge, and practice. By witnessing and researching the value of multiple voices and stories interacting for pr... Read More about Rethinking qualitative data analysis in a co-creative experimental approach.

The manifestations of universality and cultural specificity in national curriculum policy frameworks: negotiations for culturally reflective practice in early childhood education (2023)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Brooks, C., Gao, J., & Kitto, E. (2023). The manifestations of universality and cultural specificity in national curriculum policy frameworks: negotiations for culturally reflective practice in early childhood education. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2023.2267594

This paper presents findings from a review of 19 national curriculum policy frameworks (NCPFs) across the globe and discusses dominant and culturally specific discourses that shape early childhood education (ECE). We combine two frameworks of develop... Read More about The manifestations of universality and cultural specificity in national curriculum policy frameworks: negotiations for culturally reflective practice in early childhood education.

Conceptualizing Anti-Racist Pedagogies Within Experimental Music's Community of Practice (2023)
Journal Article
Woods, P. J. (2024). Conceptualizing Anti-Racist Pedagogies Within Experimental Music's Community of Practice. Adult Education Quarterly, 74(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/07417136231198218

Despite communities of practice (COPs) literature asserting the importance of attending to power dynamics within these learning contexts, research has largely ignored the process of racialization within COPs and, in particular, the role anti-racist p... Read More about Conceptualizing Anti-Racist Pedagogies Within Experimental Music's Community of Practice.

Re-Valuing the Shadows: Reimagining Possibilities for Alternative Futures through/with an Agentifying Education for a Planet in Crisis (2023)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2023). Re-Valuing the Shadows: Reimagining Possibilities for Alternative Futures through/with an Agentifying Education for a Planet in Crisis. In T. Lovat, R. Toomey, N. Clement, & K. Dally (Eds.), Second International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing (763-781). Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24420-9_43

The last decade has seen distinct ideological shifts in particular geopolitical contexts and in global/local relations across the globe, with increasing instability witnessed in social, political, ecological, material, and economic systems. Efforts t... Read More about Re-Valuing the Shadows: Reimagining Possibilities for Alternative Futures through/with an Agentifying Education for a Planet in Crisis.

How ‘global’ are sociology journals in the Web of Science database? Exploring journal aims, editorial board networks and authorship (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brown, E., Vega Castillo, M. A., Lee, G., & Hordosy, R. (2023, June). How ‘global’ are sociology journals in the Web of Science database? Exploring journal aims, editorial board networks and authorship. Presented at Department of Sociology Seminar, Durham, UK

A knowledge hierarchy has long been present within the academic community dominated by producers, publishers and journals from western countries (Heilbron, 2014), whilst inequalities in who gets to edit and author have prompted calls for more inclusi... Read More about How ‘global’ are sociology journals in the Web of Science database? Exploring journal aims, editorial board networks and authorship.

Sociology students' perceptions of themselves within the discipline - an international comparative analysis (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hordosy, R., & Norris, J. (2023, April). Sociology students' perceptions of themselves within the discipline - an international comparative analysis. Presented at BSA Annual Conference 2023: Sociological Voices in Public Discourse, Manchester, UK

This paper looks at how sociology students at several different universities in three countries see their discipline and themselves within it. It draws on the Bernstein’s notion of powerful knowledge that disrupts inequalities, as well as Burawoy’s u... Read More about Sociology students' perceptions of themselves within the discipline - an international comparative analysis.

How international are sociology journals? – Analysis of aims, editorial boards and gatekeeper networks (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HORDOSY, R., Brown, E., & Vega Castillo, M. A. (2023, April). How international are sociology journals? – Analysis of aims, editorial boards and gatekeeper networks. Presented at British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Manchester

Academic prestige is conceptualised differently based on national context; yet internationally, the notion of "excellence" permeates the global discourse on knowledge production. A knowledge hierarchy has long been present within the academic communi... Read More about How international are sociology journals? – Analysis of aims, editorial boards and gatekeeper networks.