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‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home (2020)
Journal Article
Green, D. P., Rose, M., Bevan, C., Farmer, H., Cater, K., & Stanton Fraser, D. (2021). ‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home. Convergence, 27(3), 805-829. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856520979966

Consumer virtual reality (VR) headsets (e.g. Oculus Go) have brought VR non-fiction (VRNF) within reach of at-home audiences. However, despite increase in VR hardware sales and enthusiasm for the platform among niche audiences at festivals, mainstrea... Read More about ‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home.

Social Research and Disability: Developing Inclusive Research Spaces for Disabled Researchers (2020)
Book
Burke, C., & Byrne, B. (Eds.). (2020). Social Research and Disability: Developing Inclusive Research Spaces for Disabled Researchers. London: Routledge

Social Research and Disability argues that the contemporary rules of sociological methods outlined in numerous research methods texts make a number of assumptions concerning the researcher including ambulance, sight, hearing and speech. In short, the... Read More about Social Research and Disability: Developing Inclusive Research Spaces for Disabled Researchers.

Hegemony (2020)
Book Chapter
Maisuria, A. (2020). Hegemony. In S. Themelis (Ed.), Critical Reflections on the Language of Neoliberalism in Education: Dangerous Words and Discourses of Possibility (84-92). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Hegemony is one the most powerful concepts to understand reality in any social scientist's toolbox. Hegemony comes from the term - hegemon meaning leader. Gramsci’s works presented the provocation: how can power be won, and how can it be sustained. T... Read More about Hegemony.

Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education: Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research (2020)
Book
Murphy, M., Burke, C., Costa, C., & Raapear, R. (Eds.). (2020). Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education: Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education brings together an international group of scholars who shine a theoretical light on the politics of academic life and higher education. The book covers three key areas: 1) Institutional governance... Read More about Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education: Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research.

PHEADRUS: Using Gadamer’s interpretive phenomenology to examine the pedagogy of business schools (2020)
Thesis
Davies, C. PHEADRUS: Using Gadamer’s interpretive phenomenology to examine the pedagogy of business schools. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/3052539

This research project started as a demonstration of how the interpretive phenomenology and hermeneutics of Hans Georg Gadamer could be applied to the study of business pedagogy. It became a journey that ended as a narrative of how engagement in a phe... Read More about PHEADRUS: Using Gadamer’s interpretive phenomenology to examine the pedagogy of business schools.

Understanding students’ critical thinking ability: A comparative case of Chinese and British undergraduates (2020)
Journal Article
Lianqing, H., Adelopo, I., & Last, K. (2020). Understanding students’ critical thinking ability: A comparative case of Chinese and British undergraduates. New Educational Review, 61, 133-143. https://doi.org/10.15804/tner.2020.61.3.11

The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent the language factor contributes to students’ critical thinking abilities. The critical thinking (CT) skills and abilities of final year undergraduate students studying on the same program we... Read More about Understanding students’ critical thinking ability: A comparative case of Chinese and British undergraduates.

Stories of family in working‐class graduates’ early careers (2020)
Journal Article
Christie, F., & Burke, C. (2021). Stories of family in working‐class graduates’ early careers. British Educational Research Journal, 47(1), 85-104. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3689

How do young graduates view the role of immediate families in influencing/supporting them as they start their working lives and how do those reflections affect how they think of themselves as graduates? Social, political and economic changes have led... Read More about Stories of family in working‐class graduates’ early careers.

Exploring how play-based pedagogies support mixed ethnic identity formation (2020)
Thesis
Colilles, S. Exploring how play-based pedagogies support mixed ethnic identity formation. (Thesis). Birmingham City University. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7459888

This thesis explores some of the ways in which children’s ethnic identities have been conceptualised by sociocultural and funds of knowledge (FOK) theorisation. Situated within the context of a private day nursery in the north of England, the study p... Read More about Exploring how play-based pedagogies support mixed ethnic identity formation.

What 'gives life' to critical pedagogy in the lifelong learning sector? (2020)
Thesis
McElearney, P. What 'gives life' to critical pedagogy in the lifelong learning sector?. (Thesis). University of Worcester. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10623718

Critical pedagogy is an educational philosophy and approach to teaching and learning which challenges social and political hierarchies, and questions of power. Teachers and students co-create knowledge in order to develop an awareness of oppressive s... Read More about What 'gives life' to critical pedagogy in the lifelong learning sector?.

Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, V. (2020). Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom. Primary Science, 21-23

This article considers how primary science curriculum planning can be framed around the Sustainable Development Goals (2015). As a case study it presents how learning about insects on a bug hunt in the playground can quickly transform into more cont... Read More about Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom.