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An autoethnographical study of leadership in a new Church of England free school (2024)
Thesis
Culling, L. An autoethnographical study of leadership in a new Church of England free school. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10888148

Effective leadership in education is paramount given the amount of public expenditure dedicated to it (Daniels et al., 2019) and because of the increasing accountability placed upon headteachers (Hitt and Tucker, 2016; Leithwood, 2010; Muijs, 2011).... Read More about An autoethnographical study of leadership in a new Church of England free school.

Community of Practice in a seminar setting: An action research approach to graduate employability and skills in higher education (2023)
Thesis
Bird, S. Community of Practice in a seminar setting: An action research approach to graduate employability and skills in higher education. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10395446

United Kingdom higher education institutions play a valuable role in preparing students for graduate roles through the development of employability skills and preparedness for employment. This study explores the impact of a transitional Community of... Read More about Community of Practice in a seminar setting: An action research approach to graduate employability and skills in higher education.

Disruptive learning and optimal flow: Game jams in heterotopic affinity space (2022)
Thesis
King, A. Disruptive learning and optimal flow: Game jams in heterotopic affinity space. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9303643

Game jams are intensive, time-bound videogame-development events where students, professionals, and hobbyists form teams to create games against the clock. Jams are popular, offering accessible, informal learning environments which promote teamwork,... Read More about Disruptive learning and optimal flow: Game jams in heterotopic affinity space.

Primary school teaching: A classed and gendered profession - Poetically exploring the narratives of female trainee primary school teachers (2022)
Thesis
Manison Shore, L. Primary school teaching: A classed and gendered profession - Poetically exploring the narratives of female trainee primary school teachers. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9081186

This thesis explores the narratives of middle-class and working-class undergraduate women in their first year as student teachers on the three-year Primary Initial Teacher Education degree at a post-92 university. It simultaneously explores my own cl... Read More about Primary school teaching: A classed and gendered profession - Poetically exploring the narratives of female trainee primary school teachers.

Learning through practice: A comparative study of student and graduate perceptions of learning to be and becoming a journalist (2022)
Thesis
Evans, M. Learning through practice: A comparative study of student and graduate perceptions of learning to be and becoming a journalist. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9228731

This study examines approaches to learning and teaching journalism through practice at two UK Higher Education courses accredited by the UK Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC). It explores how students and recent graduates from the two cour... Read More about Learning through practice: A comparative study of student and graduate perceptions of learning to be and becoming a journalist.

One size doesn’t fit all: Exploring complexity in young people’s perceptions of Character Education a critical realist case study (2022)
Thesis
Kernaghan, P. One size doesn’t fit all: Exploring complexity in young people’s perceptions of Character Education a critical realist case study. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6873519

This study is a Case Study (CS) informed exploration of a pupil’s eye view of Character Education (CE), in a CS school. It is intended to find out what they think of CE claims it can be ‘caught, taught or sought’ (Jubilee Centre, 2018). It consid... Read More about One size doesn’t fit all: Exploring complexity in young people’s perceptions of Character Education a critical realist case study.

Complex adaptive system behaviours in small group interaction: A year 4 classroom case study of learning as ‘emergence’ (2022)
Thesis
Knight, B. Complex adaptive system behaviours in small group interaction: A year 4 classroom case study of learning as ‘emergence’. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9030663

Depictions of classroom teaching and learning in politics, policy and media tend to be over simplified and mechanistic. Insights from research on classroom learning draw largely on the ‘what works’ paradigm, which presents learning as directly caused... Read More about Complex adaptive system behaviours in small group interaction: A year 4 classroom case study of learning as ‘emergence’.

Family transitions and home education: circumstances, processes and practices (2022)
Thesis
Gillie, S. Family transitions and home education: circumstances, processes and practices. (Thesis). The Open University. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9382178

This study investigates the processes leading certain UK families to home educate. The research focus is: What circumstances inform the transitions of families to home education? The analysis draws upon a large-scale online survey, face-to-face inter... Read More about Family transitions and home education: circumstances, processes and practices.

Confident leaders– by design: A case study of self-efficacy in educational leadership development (2022)
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Baker, C. Confident leaders– by design: A case study of self-efficacy in educational leadership development. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7278096

Effective leadership is second only to the quality of teaching as a lever for improving educational outcomes (National College of School Leadership, 2006) and is vital to the success of most school improvement efforts (Leithwood et al., 2019). Leader... Read More about Confident leaders– by design: A case study of self-efficacy in educational leadership development.

Me, myself, I - A matter of becoming, threatened identities?: A qualitative study of female early childhood studies students of Bangladeshi heritage in England (2021)
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Bird, M. Me, myself, I - A matter of becoming, threatened identities?: A qualitative study of female early childhood studies students of Bangladeshi heritage in England. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6639007

This thesis examines the experiences of young Bangladeshi women studying on a Foundation degree within a widening participation university. It examines their changing identity on their journey to university as they transition through compulsory and p... Read More about Me, myself, I - A matter of becoming, threatened identities?: A qualitative study of female early childhood studies students of Bangladeshi heritage in England.

Experiencing Initial Teacher Education as a career changer in England: A Constructivist Grounded Theory exploration of trainee teachers' perceptions of learning (2021)
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Garrick, N. Experiencing Initial Teacher Education as a career changer in England: A Constructivist Grounded Theory exploration of trainee teachers' perceptions of learning. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7020678

Using Constructivist Grounded Theory Methodology, this study explores the perceptions of learning of eight career changing trainee teachers enrolled on four one-year primary or secondary postgraduate Initial Teacher Education programmes in England. T... Read More about Experiencing Initial Teacher Education as a career changer in England: A Constructivist Grounded Theory exploration of trainee teachers' perceptions of learning.

Counter-terrorism measures in the classroom: Exploring the perceptions and experiences of education professionals enacting the Prevent Duty in Bath and Bristol (2021)
Thesis
Weedon, M. R. Counter-terrorism measures in the classroom: Exploring the perceptions and experiences of education professionals enacting the Prevent Duty in Bath and Bristol. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6905888

While most education professionals report their straightforward enactment of Prevent, a critical multilevel analysis of 17 interviews with education professionals in the Bath and Bristol areas of the UK data demonstrates however, that the policy is w... Read More about Counter-terrorism measures in the classroom: Exploring the perceptions and experiences of education professionals enacting the Prevent Duty in Bath and Bristol.

Facilitating the design of data-informed andragogic tools to promote hypercognition for UK access to higher education learners (2021)
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Griffin, J. Facilitating the design of data-informed andragogic tools to promote hypercognition for UK access to higher education learners. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1490795

Access to Higher Education courses in the UK serve the purpose of providing a route to Higher Education level study for those without the requisite qualifications to do so. However, students on these courses tend to be disproportionately from groups... Read More about Facilitating the design of data-informed andragogic tools to promote hypercognition for UK access to higher education learners.

Teacher training in England: Exploring views of trainee teachers, from two different training routes, on the formation of their professional identity (2021)
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Vickers-Hulse, K. Teacher training in England: Exploring views of trainee teachers, from two different training routes, on the formation of their professional identity. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6726590

This thesis explores the views of trainee teachers on two different training routes to a PGCE Primary qualification (School Direct and Core) on the formation of a professional identity. This thesis is set within the context of continuously developing... Read More about Teacher training in England: Exploring views of trainee teachers, from two different training routes, on the formation of their professional identity.

Benefits and barriers: A case study to explore teaching and learning in physics using a collaborative learning platform (2021)
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Telfer-Mason, C. Benefits and barriers: A case study to explore teaching and learning in physics using a collaborative learning platform. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6093856

This is professionally focused case study research (Stake, 2005) which demonstrates pupil perceptions of the benefits and barriers to the collaborative learning of physics using a teacher-designed online learning platform. ‘The case’ is the resea... Read More about Benefits and barriers: A case study to explore teaching and learning in physics using a collaborative learning platform.

PHEADRUS: Using Gadamer’s interpretive phenomenology to examine the pedagogy of business schools (2020)
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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.

What 'gives life' to critical pedagogy in the lifelong learning sector? (2020)
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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?.

Exploring how play-based pedagogies support mixed ethnic identity formation (2020)
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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.

Investigating the critical influences on emerging trainee teacher identity in the UAEU: A case study of Elementary Arabic and English Language students’ views (2020)
Thesis
Attia Adelkarim, A. Investigating the critical influences on emerging trainee teacher identity in the UAEU: A case study of Elementary Arabic and English Language students’ views. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/4435940

This research into emerging teacher identity in the UAE takes the form of a case study. Groups of 1st year students aiming to be either Arabic or English language teachers were interviewed and compared to similar groups in their final 4th year. Each... Read More about Investigating the critical influences on emerging trainee teacher identity in the UAEU: A case study of Elementary Arabic and English Language students’ views.

“Whose bridges? And to where?” Exploring the rational for supplementary schooling: A stakeholder informed case study (2020)
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Elhaddad, M. “Whose bridges? And to where?” Exploring the rational for supplementary schooling: A stakeholder informed case study. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1491119

This research investigates the motives for the establishment of supplementary schools; how the case study school addressed those aspirations; what happens if stakeholders’ needs are divergent; and what can be learnt about the perceived value of suppl... Read More about “Whose bridges? And to where?” Exploring the rational for supplementary schooling: A stakeholder informed case study.