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‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home (2020)
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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.

Understanding students’ critical thinking ability: A comparative case of Chinese and British undergraduates (2020)
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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)
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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.

Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom (2020)
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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.

The possibility and importance of immersive technologies during COVID-19 for autistic people (2020)
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© 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify three key areas where autistic people may find themselves impacted through COVID-19, namely, education; employment; and anxiety. Design/methodology/approach: This p... Read More about The possibility and importance of immersive technologies during COVID-19 for autistic people.

Bug Burgers? The climate emergency and eating insects (2020)
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Here I outline how a four-stage approach framed classroom discussion around the global food crisis and its associated socio-economic and environmental impacts. In the discussion pupils considered whether they would be prepared to eat insects rather t... Read More about Bug Burgers? The climate emergency and eating insects.

Addressing unrealistic optimism with counterfactual reasoning in an employability module in higher education (2020)
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Purpose: The study aimed to explore the effect of second year business students engaging in counterfactual reasoning on their unrealistic optimism regarding attainment on an employability module. Design/methodology/approach: Using an experimental des... Read More about Addressing unrealistic optimism with counterfactual reasoning in an employability module in higher education.

The support and information needs of adolescents and young adults with cancer when active treatment ends (2020)
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Background: The end of active treatment is a period of high stress for young people with cancer, but limited literature exists about their information and support needs during this phase. This study aimed to understand the needs of young people with... Read More about The support and information needs of adolescents and young adults with cancer when active treatment ends.

Introducing edible insects into Welsh school canteens (2020)
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Insects as food is not a new idea. In the Old Testament’s book of Leviticus a list of permissible foods is given; insects including, locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers are included. Earlier still, the Romans and Greeks were known to dine on beetle l... Read More about Introducing edible insects into Welsh school canteens.

‘Just don’t tell them what’s in it’: Ethics, edible insects and sustainable food choice in schools (2020)
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Supporting young people with global crises mitigation strategies is essential, yet loaded with ethical dilemmas for the educator. This study explores whether young people will make ethical decisions regarding the sustainability of food choice in scho... Read More about ‘Just don’t tell them what’s in it’: Ethics, edible insects and sustainable food choice in schools.

Lifelong education, social inequality and the COVID-19 health pandemic (2020)
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Neoliberal hegemony and the task for critical education (2020)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Maintaining the promise without killing the dream: Developing resilience for future 'graduate' careers (2020)
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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)
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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?.

Subject mentors: The secret service of art education (2020)
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The assessment has become the curriculum: Teachers’ views on the Phonics Screening Check in England (2020)
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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.

Edible insects: Applying Bakhtin’s carnivalesque to understand how education practices can help transform young people’s eating habits (2020)
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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.

Discovery approach to fieldwork (2020)
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