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Contribution to Secondary Leadership Paper 27 (2007)
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Distributed leadership for personalising learning (2007)
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Black resistance to the transatlantic slave trade (2007)
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This two and a half hour ITE session focuses on Black Resistance to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and is suitable for student teachers/trainees preparing to teach History or Citizenship at KS3-4. Teaching about the Transatlantic Slave Trade is a... Read More about Black resistance to the transatlantic slave trade.

History and human rights education (2007)
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Online multiEthnic bibliography (2007)
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Truancy in secondary school pupils: Prevalence, trajectories and pupil perspectives (2006)
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School absenteeism and particularly unauthorized absenteeism or truancy has been the focus of a number of, so far largely unsuccessful, recent policy initiatives. The paper draws upon two sources of data, the British Household Panel Survey and detail... Read More about Truancy in secondary school pupils: Prevalence, trajectories and pupil perspectives.

Delimiting knowledge transfer from training (2006)
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to deepen the understanding of how and to whom knowledge is transferred from training to practice. Design/methodology/approach - Through recognising the interrelationship between knowledge, social network struct... Read More about Delimiting knowledge transfer from training.

Union learning representatives—a new source of professional support for scottish teachers (2006)
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Union Learning Representatives (ULRs) are a relatively recent phenomenon and are a new category of lay representation within the workplace in the United Kingdom. They are part of the present New Labour administration’s drive to expand and improve lif... Read More about Union learning representatives—a new source of professional support for scottish teachers.

‘i don’t feel like ‘a student’, i feel like ‘me’!’: The over‐simplification of mature learners’ experience(s) (2006)
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Many studies of mature students within further and higher education portray them as a distinct social category with particular shared characteristics. Such representations are sometimes sub‐divided further along lines of social division. For instance... Read More about ‘i don’t feel like ‘a student’, i feel like ‘me’!’: The over‐simplification of mature learners’ experience(s).

The everyday classificatory practices of selective schooling: A fifty-year retrospective (2006)
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The fifty-year retrospective has led to recent media interest in the comprehensive school. Bristol, located in the south-west of England, is frequently portrayed as an early provider. This article draws on documentary evidence and life-history interv... Read More about The everyday classificatory practices of selective schooling: A fifty-year retrospective.

Professional learning through a generative approach to mentoring: Lessons from a training school partnership (2006)
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Exploring the potential for history and citizenship eduation with primary children at the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol (2006)
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Using diaries to stimulate children's understanding of the past (2006)
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The impact of negative experiences, dissatisfaction and attachment on first year undergraduate withdrawal (2006)
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This paper reports the results of a telephone survey of 151 undergraduates who withdrew in their first year of study at a post-1992 institution. It focuses on the negative experiences which they reported during their time at the university and the ul... Read More about The impact of negative experiences, dissatisfaction and attachment on first year undergraduate withdrawal.

Using nursery rhymes to develop children's knowledge and understanding of the past (2005)
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Recovering potential: Factors associated with success in engaging challenging students with alternative pre-16 provision (2005)
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The study focuses on a group of young people for whom conventional school placements had broken down and were attending vocational courses at an FE college while still of compulsory school age. The students had been excluded by, or had failed to atte... Read More about Recovering potential: Factors associated with success in engaging challenging students with alternative pre-16 provision.

Becoming a lecturer in further education in England: The construction of professional identity and the role of communities of practice (2005)
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Further education colleges in England offer a wide range of post-school education and training provision. Recently they have undergone major transformations that have resulted in considerable changes to the work of those teaching in them. In this pap... Read More about Becoming a lecturer in further education in England: The construction of professional identity and the role of communities of practice.

Contemporary struggle in Europe: Anti-power or counter-power? (2005)
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Importance and impotence? learning, outcomes and research in further education (2005)
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One of the defining features of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme is that it ‘aims to improve outcomes for learners of all ages in teaching and learning contexts across the UK’. This article argues that, although it is possible to use the... Read More about Importance and impotence? learning, outcomes and research in further education.

Improving police probationer training through a democratic research process (2005)
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Following a damning report on the state of police probationer training in England and Wales by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, entitled Training Matters (2002), the Home Office (2003), as part of its modernisation programme for the police... Read More about Improving police probationer training through a democratic research process.