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‘It’s our job to take the limits away’: A case study approach to exploring a culture of teacher expectations in an English secondary school (2020)
Thesis
Smith, J. ‘It’s our job to take the limits away’: A case study approach to exploring a culture of teacher expectations in an English secondary school. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/4421728

The concept of labelling and notions of fixed abilities are prevalent in our education system (Archer et al., 2018). From the earliest stages of formal education, teachers are required to make predictions about future development of the children base... Read More about ‘It’s our job to take the limits away’: A case study approach to exploring a culture of teacher expectations in an English secondary school.

Theorising arts-based collaborative research processes (2020)
Book Chapter
Andrews, J., Frimberger, K., Fay, R., Tordzro, G., Densua Tordzro, N., & Sithole, T. (2020). Theorising arts-based collaborative research processes. In E. Moore, J. Bradley, & J. Simpson (Eds.), Translanguaging as Transformation: The Collaborative Construction of New Linguistic Realities. Bristol: Multilingual Matters

Neoliberal hegemony and the task for critical education (2020)
Journal Article
Maisuria, A. (2020). Neoliberal hegemony and the task for critical education. Rethinking Critical Pedagogy, 1(1),

The starting point for this article is an explication of the essence of Marxism, which is argued as the most efficacious theoretical framework for understanding the current historical conjuncture. I then provide a description of the development of ca... Read More about Neoliberal hegemony and the task for critical education.

How does student activism drive cultural campus change in the UK and US regarding sexual violence on campus? (2020)
Journal Article
Bovill, H., Mcmahon, S., Demers, J., Banyard, V., Carrasco, V., & Keep, L. (2021). How does student activism drive cultural campus change in the UK and US regarding sexual violence on campus?. Critical Social Policy, 41(2), 165-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018320913967

Using policy frameworks and author expertise to identify relevant literature, four academics and two student-activist-authors, critically review literature upon student activist responses to sexual violence on campus. We conclude, student activism is... Read More about How does student activism drive cultural campus change in the UK and US regarding sexual violence on campus?.

Ignorance is not bliss: A UK study of sexual and domestic abuse awareness on campus, and correlations with confidence and positive action in a bystander program (2020)
Journal Article
Bovill, H., & White, P. (in press). Ignorance is not bliss: A UK study of sexual and domestic abuse awareness on campus, and correlations with confidence and positive action in a bystander program. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520916267

This article reports on a U.K. research study encompassing two surveys which used evidence-based scales of awareness, confidence to intervene, and intervention opportunities and action regarding sexual and domestic abuse on campus. They were sent to... Read More about Ignorance is not bliss: A UK study of sexual and domestic abuse awareness on campus, and correlations with confidence and positive action in a bystander program.

Beyond the Blockade: Education in Cuba (2020)
Book
Richards, M., Little, G., Green, A., & Yeeles, P. (2020). Beyond the Blockade: Education in Cuba. UK: London: Manifesto Press

Beyond the Blockade is a collection of testimonies of participants in the delegations organised by the National Education Union (NEU) and its sister union the National Union of Science, Education and Sport Workers (SNTECD) in Cuba. Co-edited by G... Read More about Beyond the Blockade: Education in Cuba.

Jackie goes home, young working-class women: Higher Education, employment and social (re)alignment (2020)
Thesis
Bentley, L. Jackie goes home, young working-class women: Higher Education, employment and social (re)alignment. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/3292642

This thesis builds on and contributes to work in the field of sociology of education and employment. It provides an extension to a research agenda which has sought to examine how young people’s transitions from ‘undergraduate’ to ‘graduate’ are ‘clas... Read More about Jackie goes home, young working-class women: Higher Education, employment and social (re)alignment.

Maintaining the promise without killing the dream: Developing resilience for future 'graduate' careers (2020)
Journal Article
Scurry, T., Burke, C., Blenkinsopp, J., & Smart, A. (2020). Maintaining the promise without killing the dream: Developing resilience for future 'graduate' careers. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 44(1), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.4406

Significant numbers of recent graduates continue to enter non-graduate roles. Against this backdrop, there is a need to consider how students and graduates can be prepared for the graduate labour market. Resilience is represented as a key attribute f... Read More about Maintaining the promise without killing the dream: Developing resilience for future 'graduate' careers.

What ‘gives life’ to critical pedagogy in the lifelong learning sector? (2020)
Journal Article
McElearney, P. (2020). What ‘gives life’ to critical pedagogy in the lifelong learning sector?. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 25(1), 23-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2020.1720145

Critical pedagogy in the UK has traditionally been practised in the Lifelong Learning sector. However, the sector has become constrained by funding cuts, instrumental curricula and accountability measures, and teachers can feel that they have little... Read More about What ‘gives life’ to critical pedagogy in the lifelong learning sector?.

Vocabulary Development (2020)
Book Chapter
Carter, J. (2020). Vocabulary Development. In Primary English for Trainee Teachers (41-60). (3rd Edition). London: SAGE Publications

Approaches to supporting the development of vocabulary learning in primary classrooms

The view from the deck - exploring lecturers’ and middle managers’ perceptions of English FE sector professional development: A case study evaluation (2020)
Thesis
Goldhawk, A. The view from the deck - exploring lecturers’ and middle managers’ perceptions of English FE sector professional development: A case study evaluation. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5203438

The focus of this research was to investigate both how further education (FE) lecturers and middle managers engage in professional development and what they perceive to constitute effective professional development. This focus represents an area of s... Read More about The view from the deck - exploring lecturers’ and middle managers’ perceptions of English FE sector professional development: A case study evaluation.

The assessment has become the curriculum: Teachers’ views on the Phonics Screening Check in England (2020)
Journal Article
Carter, J. (2020). The assessment has become the curriculum: Teachers’ views on the Phonics Screening Check in England. British Educational Research Journal, 46(3), 593-609. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3598

The Phonics Screening Check (PSC) was introduced in England in 2012 for Year 1 children (aged 5 and 6). There have been criticisms of the check in relation to its reliability and appropriateness as an assessment for early reading, although advocates... Read More about The assessment has become the curriculum: Teachers’ views on the Phonics Screening Check in England.

Realising young children's rights: Researching conversations with rights respecting early childhood leaders (2020)
Thesis
Butcher, H. E. Realising young children's rights: Researching conversations with rights respecting early childhood leaders. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1491158

Children in the UK have been rights bearing citizens since ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1991). Between 1996-2017 the Department of Education, published 5 iterations of a curriculum for children youn... Read More about Realising young children's rights: Researching conversations with rights respecting early childhood leaders.

Edible insects: Applying Bakhtin’s carnivalesque to understand how education practices can help transform young people’s eating habits (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, V., & Beynon, S. (2021). Edible insects: Applying Bakhtin’s carnivalesque to understand how education practices can help transform young people’s eating habits. Children's Geographies, 19(1), 13-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2020.1718608

Western European populations are being encouraged to reconsider their diets in light of population growth and the associated intensification of farming systems. In addition, health concerns associated with diets high in sugar, salt and saturated fat... Read More about Edible insects: Applying Bakhtin’s carnivalesque to understand how education practices can help transform young people’s eating habits.

The climate emergency and eating insects: Food for thought (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, V. (in press). The climate emergency and eating insects: Food for thought. Primary Geography,

The children in our classrooms are bombarded with doom and gloom stories about the state of the world: food poverty, war, carbon emissions, water shortages… . Fellow geographers, David Hicks (2018) and Hilary Whitehouse (2018), remind us that we shou... Read More about The climate emergency and eating insects: Food for thought.