Outputs (110)

The anxiety caused by secondary schools for autistic adolescents: In their own words (2021)
Journal Article
Costley, D., Emerson, A., Ropar, D., & Sheppard, E. (2021). The anxiety caused by secondary schools for autistic adolescents: In their own words. Education Sciences, 11(11), Article 726. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11110726

Secondary schools are increasingly becoming inclusive of all students whatever their individual needs, but we question whether teachers understand enough about specific needs in order to effectively support all their students. Research indicates that... Read More about The anxiety caused by secondary schools for autistic adolescents: In their own words.

‘You just feel more relaxed’: An Investigation of Art Room Atmosphere (2021)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., & Hall, C. (2021). ‘You just feel more relaxed’: An Investigation of Art Room Atmosphere. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 40(3), 599-614. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12370

Art educators are increasingly interested in the affective dimensions of pedagogy. This paper contributes by exploring students' reports of feeling more relaxed and less stressed in the art room, data drawn from a three year study of thirty arts rich... Read More about ‘You just feel more relaxed’: An Investigation of Art Room Atmosphere.

Introduction: School leadership and education system reform (2021)
Book Chapter
Greany, T., & Earley, P. (2021). Introduction: School leadership and education system reform. In School leadership and education system reform. (2nd). Bloomsbury Publishing

This second edition of School Leadership and Education System Reform includes contributions from a range of academics, policy makers and practitioners. It focuses on developments in England and addresses four questions: i) how can school leaders sha... Read More about Introduction: School leadership and education system reform.

Leadership And School Improvement In Multi-Academy Trusts (2021)
Book Chapter
Greany, T., & McGinity, R. (2021). Leadership And School Improvement In Multi-Academy Trusts. In School Leadership and Education System Reform. (2nd). Bloomsbury Publishing

The focus in this chapter is on leadership and improvement in Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in England, informed by findings from a mixed methods study by the authors (Greany, 2018). The chapter aims to:
• Summarize the key features and evolution of... Read More about Leadership And School Improvement In Multi-Academy Trusts.

Leading Curriculum Development (2021)
Book Chapter
Greany, T. (2021). Leading Curriculum Development. In T. Greany, & P. Earley (Eds.), School Leadership and Education System Reform. (2nd). Bloomsbury Publishing

The importance of leadership in shaping and developing the curriculum in schools is widely recognized. However, despite this recognition of the need for school leaders to be, inter alia, curriculum leaders, there is surprisingly little robust resear... Read More about Leading Curriculum Development.

School System Governance And The Implications For Schools (2021)
Book Chapter
Greany, T., & Higham, R. (2021). School System Governance And The Implications For Schools. In T. Greany, & P. Earley (Eds.), School Leadership and Education System Reform. (2nd). Bloomsbury Publishing

Conservative-led governments in power since 2010 have introduced a range of reforms in England, including a rapid expansion in the number of academies and Multi-Academy Trusts, the roll back of Local Authorities and the encouragement of new school-to... Read More about School System Governance And The Implications For Schools.

Mathematics curriculum waves within vocational education (2021)
Journal Article
Dalby, D., & Noyes, A. (2022). Mathematics curriculum waves within vocational education. Oxford Review of Education, 48(2), 166-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2021.1940913

Links between mathematical attainment and economic performance, coupled with England’s poor showing in international comparisons of skills, have focused attention on post-16 mathematics education, for example in the UK Government’s 2017 Industrial St... Read More about Mathematics curriculum waves within vocational education.

Enacting small justices: Education, place and subjectivity in the Anthropocene (2021)
Journal Article
Kruger, F. (2021). Enacting small justices: Education, place and subjectivity in the Anthropocene. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55(4-5), 665-674. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12565

The concept of the Anthropocene signals both a growing awareness of the negative impact that humans have had on the abiotic and biotic systems of the earth, as well as reflexive opportunity to interrogate how humans might live differently. It is in r... Read More about Enacting small justices: Education, place and subjectivity in the Anthropocene.

Using dialogic interventions to decrease children’s use of inappropriate teleological explanations (2021)
Journal Article
Halls, J. G., Ainsworth, S. E., & Oliver, M. C. (2021). Using dialogic interventions to decrease children’s use of inappropriate teleological explanations. International Journal of Science Education, 43(11), 1817-1836. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2021.1936271

A belief in teleology is often suggested to be a barrier in children’s science education. Many studies have catalogued children’s use of teleological explanations, but fewer have developed approaches to tackle children’s use in scientific contexts. T... Read More about Using dialogic interventions to decrease children’s use of inappropriate teleological explanations.

The Students: Foregrounding Difference (2021)
Book Chapter
Gust, O. (2021). The Students: Foregrounding Difference. In Teaching History for the Contemporary World: Tensions, Challenges and Classroom Experiences in Higher Education (43-55). Springer

This chapter discusses ways of creating history classrooms and courses that are accessible to students who are minoritised by society, whether as a result of their heritage, gender, sexuality or class background, as well as those who face physical, e... Read More about The Students: Foregrounding Difference.

Diffractive memory-stories and response-activeness in teaching social justice (2021)
Journal Article
Müller, M., Le Roux, A., & Kruger, F. (2022). Diffractive memory-stories and response-activeness in teaching social justice. Discourse, 43(6), 821-836. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2021.1902944

This article presents a diffractive arts-based narrative that results from a re-turn of our work with subjectivity and memory in relation to our involvement with teaching social justice and diversity in education. Through intra-action, we explore the... Read More about Diffractive memory-stories and response-activeness in teaching social justice.

Silencing Touch and Touching Silence? Understanding the Complex Links between Touch and Silence in Residential Child Care Settings (2021)
Journal Article
Green, L., Warwick, L., & Moran, L. (2021). Silencing Touch and Touching Silence? Understanding the Complex Links between Touch and Silence in Residential Child Care Settings. Childhood, 28(2), 245-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682211000111

Touch and silence are neglected across most disciplines, including within child-specific academic literature, and their interconnections have not been studied before. This article focuses on touch/silence convergences in residential childcare in Engl... Read More about Silencing Touch and Touching Silence? Understanding the Complex Links between Touch and Silence in Residential Child Care Settings.

The evolution of mental health in schools: where from, where next? (2021)
Journal Article
Winship, G. (2021). The evolution of mental health in schools: where from, where next?. Cambridge Journal of Education, 51(5), 589-606. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2021.1891204

The current agenda for mental health in schools is considered in relation to the concept of mental health and how it has been iterated in schools in the UK. Key contributions from education pioneers are outlined, providing a time line for the first h... Read More about The evolution of mental health in schools: where from, where next?.

Global Citizenship Education / Learning for Sustainability: tensions, 'flaws', and contradictions as critical moments of possibility and radical hope in educating for alternative futures. (2021)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. M., & Gamal, M. (2021). Global Citizenship Education / Learning for Sustainability: tensions, 'flaws', and contradictions as critical moments of possibility and radical hope in educating for alternative futures. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 19(4), 456-469. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2021.1904211

'Global citizenship’ entered public parlance prominently during heightened globalisation. To be a citizen of this new globalised, interconnected world was to be a subject of capital. Like Janus, a subject of this neoliberal world order was to be both... Read More about Global Citizenship Education / Learning for Sustainability: tensions, 'flaws', and contradictions as critical moments of possibility and radical hope in educating for alternative futures..

'Do you miss kimchi?’: A collaborative arts-based narrative of education and migration (2021)
Book Chapter
Müller, M., Kruger, F., & Jeong, J.-H. (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.

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). 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?.

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.

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). 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.

The role of school leaders in reform (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Greany, T. The role of school leaders in reform

School leaders sit at the fulcrum of educational reform initiatives. This is particularly the case in decentralised school systems in which schools have relatively high levels of autonomy, or decision-making rights, in relation to operational and ins... Read More about The role of school leaders in reform.

Googling inclusive education: a critical visual analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Walton, E., & Dixon, K. (2022). Googling inclusive education: a critical visual analysis. Discourse, 43(2), 217-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2020.1819203

Inclusive education is a global rights-based response to educational exclusion. It is communicated through a range of modalities, but analysis predominantly focuses on discourses constituted in written texts. Systematic research is needed to understa... Read More about Googling inclusive education: a critical visual analysis.