Outputs (143)

Regulation and accreditation of surveying professions – USA and UK - challenges going forward (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Surveying professions play an important role in ensuring the preservation and protection of land and property rights.
Governments across the world are changing their approaches to protect the public. Some keep leaning toward market deregulation wit... Read More about Regulation and accreditation of surveying professions – USA and UK - challenges going forward.

The relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper is based on qualitative data gained from young working-class men with disabilities on the margins of Alternative Provisions (APs), located within a medium sized local authority in England. Young males are disproportionately placed into APs... Read More about The relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision.

An art and design initial teacher education student conference: Seeking value in inter-institutional ITE student knowledge share (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Highly effective secondary school teachers work collegiately (Shah 2012), and increasingly do so outside of individual institutions (e.g. within MAT clusters [Birks 2019]). Beyond professional efficacy, learning to establish and maintain strong colle... Read More about An art and design initial teacher education student conference: Seeking value in inter-institutional ITE student knowledge share.

Critical perspectives on educational policies and professional identities: Lessons from doctoral studies (symposium) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This symposium, which showcases an edited collection of work by recent UK doctoral graduates (Authors, forthcoming), begins with a short introduction setting the scene for the wider project. It demonstrates the unique contribution of ‘insider’, pract... Read More about Critical perspectives on educational policies and professional identities: Lessons from doctoral studies (symposium).

Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recent years have seen families of certain schoolchildren encouraged to deregister and begin home education. Ofsted (2019) considers the practice to serve a school’s purposes rather than children’s best interests. The Children’s Commissioner (2019) s... Read More about Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education.

The value of creativity: Architectural divergence & regulatory convergence (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

At the beginning of the 2023-24 academic year, the architectural design community in the United Kingdom, is cautiously anticipating the Architect’s Registration Board, to provide the new guidelines and regulations for the delivery of architectural ed... Read More about The value of creativity: Architectural divergence & regulatory convergence.

Participative rights in Welsh primary schools:​ Unpicking the policy rhetoric (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation was delivered at the Queen's University Belfast Symposium on Children's Rights, Participation & Education Symposium. The presentation focused on initial findings from Work Package 1.

Absence of value - Masculinity, disability and class in alternative provision (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper, I explore aspects of alternative provision (AP), education settings created to provide short-term support for school-aged young people in England excluded from or unable to be placed in ‘regular’ schools. AP is an element of the
Engli... Read More about Absence of value - Masculinity, disability and class in alternative provision.

Inclusive spaces for neurodivergent/neurominority students in higher education (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Due to the epistemic, hermeneutical injustice of neurodivergent voices, inclusive language to express and interpret experiences has been excluded from centres of language generation (higher education, journalism, and governance). Through the use of t... Read More about Inclusive spaces for neurodivergent/neurominority students in higher education.

Final report RSHE recommendations to schools 2023 (2023)
Report

The Women and Equalities Committee inquiry (2016), found sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools to be widespread, facilitated by access to online pornography. UK research found most children have seen pornography by 16, with 75% reporting t... Read More about Final report RSHE recommendations to schools 2023.

How is theory used to understand and inform practice in the alternative provision sector in England: Trends, gaps and implications for practice (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines how theory features in the research literatures concerning the English alternative provision (AP) sector. Despite increasing interest over the past decade in how AP can (re)engage school-aged young people in learning, there has be... Read More about How is theory used to understand and inform practice in the alternative provision sector in England: Trends, gaps and implications for practice.

Drawing on community knowledge to engage diverse communities with their children's learning (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Minoritsed groups are not always comfortable engaging with schools through the traditional approaches used (Moll et al., 1992). Without the engagement and inclusion of all groups, mistrust and conflict is given the space to grow. We also know that be... Read More about Drawing on community knowledge to engage diverse communities with their children's learning.

The adoption of a pre-teach approach for HE ITE  (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This work focusses on pre-service teacher learning of curriculum subject knowledge content.

The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) has trialled a pre-teaching approach to address mathematical subject knowledge an... Read More about The adoption of a pre-teach approach for HE ITE .

Lost in the fog: The bewildering language of assessment (2023)
Digital Artefact

A SEDA blog written jointly by the contributors to a QAA Project on the Language of Assessment which resulted in the creation of a toolkit to support both creators of assessments and students in the common points of the assessment journey. The toolk... Read More about Lost in the fog: The bewildering language of assessment.

COVID–19, Education and learning: Amplifying young children’s voices (2023)
Report

The Coronavirus pandemic has caused the largest global disruption to world–wide education systems in history (Engzell et al., 2021; Pokhrel and Chhetri, 2021). It is estimated that around 1.6 billion children in more than 200 countries have experienc... Read More about COVID–19, Education and learning: Amplifying young children’s voices.

System change: The student teacher as agile curriculum designer (2023)
Journal Article

Since at least art educator Arthur Efland’s (1976) influential description of a standard ‘school art style’, art and design curricula has been criticised as perennially disconnected from contemporary artistic practice, the creative industries, and th... Read More about System change: The student teacher as agile curriculum designer.

Vocabulary development (2023)
Book Chapter

The chapter focuses on the importance of vocabulary knowledge in both the teaching and learning of reading and writing. It provides the theory that underpins practice, curriculum links, case studies and practical ideas for teaching.
The book is a g... Read More about Vocabulary development.

Knowing and being: A narrative inquiry into undergraduate students’ experiences of learning law at a post-1992 university (2023)
Thesis

This thesis presents a narrative inquiry into students’ experience of learning law during a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) programme at an English, post-1992, university. It arises out of twenty years’ experience of teaching law and developing curriculum on... Read More about Knowing and being: A narrative inquiry into undergraduate students’ experiences of learning law at a post-1992 university.

The Welsh Government's Vulnerable Learners and Wellbeing Seminar Series (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation presents the findings from a study that explored the perception of young children of educational provision during and between covid lockdowns. Drawing on the data we argue that many children felt a sense of loss and sadness dung th... Read More about The Welsh Government's Vulnerable Learners and Wellbeing Seminar Series.

Shaping the field of lifelong education through three critical debates in the International Journal of Lifelong Education (2023)
Journal Article

The editors approached the 40th anniversary of the International Journal of Lifelong Education as an opportunity to consider the field by exploring how a corpus of 1462 articles (the first 40 volumes of the journal) questioned and shaped the field. A... Read More about Shaping the field of lifelong education through three critical debates in the International Journal of Lifelong Education.