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Fun with fiction (2013)
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Article explains how new fictional texts were used as the inspiration for creating a fresh and successful geography day for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 pupils at a South Gloucestershire Primary School

It’s a RAP? Retention, attainment and progression (2013)
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The accuracy of students' predictions of their GCSE grades (2013)
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The paper reports a study that investigated the relationship between students' self-predicted and actual General Certificate of Secondary Education results in order to establish the extent of over- and under-prediction and whether this varies by subj... Read More about The accuracy of students' predictions of their GCSE grades.

Creative exploration of local, national and global links (2013)
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Membership, influence and voice: A discussion of trade union renewal in the french context (2013)
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Union density in France has fallen to exceptionally low levels, yet unions are able to mobilise millions of supporters against government austerity measures. Some authors therefore argue that the union revitalisation literature overemphasises density... Read More about Membership, influence and voice: A discussion of trade union renewal in the french context.

Creative approaches to learning about the Bristol blitz (2013)
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Forgetting kindness: Politics, policies and practices in early childhood (2013)
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Participation In Higher Education: Aspirations, Attainment And Social Background (2013)
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The recent report of the Milburn Review into Social Mobility highlights the under-representation of young people from lower socio-economic groups in higher education and encourages universities and others to act to remedy this situation as a contribu... Read More about Participation In Higher Education: Aspirations, Attainment And Social Background.

What does it take to make a primary maths teacher? Two trainee teachers’ successful mathematical journeys (2013)
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Situated learning in accident investigation: A virtual world simulation case study (2013)
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Educators have increasingly been drawn to virtual worlds to investigate their potential for enhancing teaching and learning. This case study describes, discusses and evaluates the experiences of postgraduate environmental health students undertaking... Read More about Situated learning in accident investigation: A virtual world simulation case study.

The mismeasure of participation: how choosing the ‘wrong’ statistic helped seal the fate of Aimhigher (2012)
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Extant between 2004 and 2011, Aimhigher was the UK government’s flagship national initiative for widening participation to higher education for young people from disadvantaged social groups, with costs approaching £1 billion. Its demise was predicate... Read More about The mismeasure of participation: how choosing the ‘wrong’ statistic helped seal the fate of Aimhigher.

Well-founded social fictions: A defence of the concepts of institutional and familial habitus (2012)
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This article engages with Atkinson’s recent criticisms of concepts of collective habitus, such as ‘institutional’ and ‘familial’ habitus, in order to defend their conceptual utility and theoretical coherence. In so doing we promote a flexible underst... Read More about Well-founded social fictions: A defence of the concepts of institutional and familial habitus.

The importance of internal conversations and reflexivity for work-based students in higher education: Valuing contextual continuity and 'giving something back' (2012)
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This paper utilises the theories of Archer to explore the impact of student 'internal conversations' upon the development of reflexive approaches employed by work-based students (WBS). The study informing this paper draws on the voices of a range of... Read More about The importance of internal conversations and reflexivity for work-based students in higher education: Valuing contextual continuity and 'giving something back'.

Changing rooms: Geography through art (2012)
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This article describes a cross-curricular project involving
PGCE students teaching geography through art to year 8 students. Mark and Simon suggest that geography through art can help stimulate students’ geographical imaginations.

Online people tagging: Social (mobile) network(ing) services and work-based learning (2012)
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Social and mobile technologies offer users unprecedented opportunities for communicating, interacting, sharing, meaning-making, content and context generation. And, these affordances are in constant flux driven by a powerful interplay between technol... Read More about Online people tagging: Social (mobile) network(ing) services and work-based learning.

Integrated quality enhancement and review of higher education in Further Education Colleges (2012)
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Integrated Quality Enhancement and Review (IQER) was introduced as quality assurance designed specifically for Higher Education (HE) in Further Education Colleges (FEC) in 2008. Following a historical account of the quality assurance systems applied... Read More about Integrated quality enhancement and review of higher education in Further Education Colleges.

Expensive and failing? The role of student bursaries in widening participation and fair access in England (2012)
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English universities currently spend £355m each year on bursaries to student groups who are under-represented in higher education. However, there is little evidence to suggest that this investment has had any meaningful impact on patterns of student... Read More about Expensive and failing? The role of student bursaries in widening participation and fair access in England.

Insights into inclusive education through a small Finnish case study of an inclusive school context (2012)
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This study seeks to present data and discussion arising from a case study of a school in Finland renowned for its practice in the inclusion of learners with additional support requirements due to cognitive and physical disabilities. It aims to establ... Read More about Insights into inclusive education through a small Finnish case study of an inclusive school context.

Higher education in further education: Capturing and promoting HEness (2012)
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This article discusses the implications of continuing to support the delivery of higher education (HE) in further education (FE) settings. Although a critical mass of students studying HE in Further Education Colleges (FECs) is significant in sustain... Read More about Higher education in further education: Capturing and promoting HEness.

Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism? (2012)
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This article revisits the question of changing forms of trade unionism within the context of neoliberal globalization. While broadly accepting the argument that globalization might encourage the development of more radical forms of unionism as surviv... Read More about Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism?.