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Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England (2016)
Journal Article
Hill, D., Lewis, C., Maisuria, A., Yarker, P., & Hill, J. (2016). Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 14(3), 1-42

This article, written in December 2016 following the election in May 2016 of a majority Conservative government, and the election to the leadership of the Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn, a left-wing social democrat, ?Old Labour style socialist?, revis... Read More about Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England.

After a Foundation Degree (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Bovill, H. (2016, December). After a Foundation Degree. Paper presented at SRHE International Conference on Research into Higher Education, Newport, Wales, UK

Evaluating outreach activities: overcoming challenges through a realist ‘small steps’ approach (2016)
Journal Article
Harrison, N., & Waller, R. (2017). Evaluating outreach activities: overcoming challenges through a realist ‘small steps’ approach. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 21(2-3), 81-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2016.1256353

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Practitioners are being placed under increasing pressure to evaluate the success of their outreach activities, both by government and by their own universities. Based in a reductionist d... Read More about Evaluating outreach activities: overcoming challenges through a realist ‘small steps’ approach.

Reflexive ethnographic research practice in multilingual contexts (2016)
Book Chapter
Martin-Jones, M., Andrews, J., & Martin, D. (2016). Reflexive ethnographic research practice in multilingual contexts. In M. Martin-Jones, & D. Martin (Eds.), Researching Multilingualism: Critical and Ethnographic Approaches (189-202). London: Routledge

In this chapter we critically review the potential contribution of taking a linguistic ethnographic approach to research in service provision in health and education in multilingual settings.

Access to higher education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges (2016)
Book
Mountford-Zimdars, A., & Harrison, N. (2016). Access to higher education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges. London: Routledge

How do we understand and explain who has access to higher education? How do we make sense of persisting and new forms of inequality? How can global, national and institutional policymakers and practitioners make higher education more inclusive? Acces... Read More about Access to higher education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges.

Motivating students to achieve in a vocational services sector programme within further education (2016)
Thesis
George, D. J. Motivating students to achieve in a vocational services sector programme within further education. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/906409

This thesis explores learning motivation in a vocational further education setting, and investigates whether and why learners may not be achieving as highly as expected. The purpose of this study was to explore a learner’s transition into further edu... Read More about Motivating students to achieve in a vocational services sector programme within further education.

Emotion in UK primary schools: Silenced voices in a performance driven culture? (2016)
Thesis
Saunders, J. (in press). Emotion in UK primary schools: Silenced voices in a performance driven culture?. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/838681

The change in the education system over the last 30 years has altered what it means to be a teacher. Current literature suggests the present focus is on performance and targets (Ball, 2003) and the central remit is to produce desired outcomes in an i... Read More about Emotion in UK primary schools: Silenced voices in a performance driven culture?.

Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand (2016)
Journal Article
Maisuria, A. (2016). Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand. Knowledge Cultures, 4(6), 81--96

The importance of education for social transformation is not exclusively something that is done in schools and universities. Taking education in its broadest formulation ? something that happens all of the time, in this article I posit the argument t... Read More about Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand.