All Outputs (46)

"It's so much easier to go with what's easy": "Mindfulness" and the discourse between home and international students in the United Kingdom (2009)
Journal Article

A recent aspect of U.K. higher education has been the internationalisation of university campuses, driven by a rapid increase in student numbers from overseas and growing pressure to prepare all students for global careers. It is often assumed by pol... Read More about "It's so much easier to go with what's easy": "Mindfulness" and the discourse between home and international students in the United Kingdom.

Rediscovering educational purpose in educational evaluation (2009)
Journal Article

This paper argues that evaluation methodology should reflect the character of the field it is proposing to look at. People have the right to be evaluated in their own terms, and evaluation methodologies which are judged for their rigour against abstr... Read More about Rediscovering educational purpose in educational evaluation.

Online simulation of real life experiences (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The technology enhanced learning (TEL) strategy being developed by the University is focussing upon the use of online technologies to support learning through simulated experiences in a range of subject areas, using both “Web 1.0” and “Web 2.0” techn... Read More about Online simulation of real life experiences.

Professional standards and academic values: what does it mean to be a professional academic in a 21st century higher education institution? (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Urban village schools: Putting relationships at the heart of secondary school organisation and design (2009)
Book

Malcolm Hughes provided research advice to the author for this publication.

White middle-class identity-work through “against the grain” school choices (2009)
Book Chapter

The daily transition between home and school (2009)
Book Chapter

Transgression for transition? White urban middle class families making and managing 'against the grain' school choices (2009)
Book Chapter

Seamlessness or separation: negotiating further and higher education boundaries in dual sector institutions (2009)
Book Chapter

Improving learning by widening participation in higher education (2009)
Book

The foced march of the National Literacy Strategy: violence, resistance and personal consequences for those within local education authorities (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper is presented as part of the findings of a doctoral study that has been undertaken as a policy trajectory study into processes of the implementation of the National Literacy Strategy (NLS) throughout England in 1998. The conceptualisation... Read More about The foced march of the National Literacy Strategy: violence, resistance and personal consequences for those within local education authorities.

Negative or damaged learner identities? Moving beyond boundaries (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Integrating professional roles in early years around children’s lives and learning (2009)
Book Chapter

How well am I doing on my outcomes? (2009)
Book Chapter

Whose childhood is it? The roles of children, adults and policy makers (2009)
Book

A textbook that promotes thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform an understanding of childhood development.

Worlds of difference: ‘dual sector’ institutions and higher education transitions (2009)
Book Chapter

Moving into practice: Transitions from further education trainee teacher to lecturer (2009)
Journal Article

The current paper draws on data derived from a small-scale ongoing longitudinal study of further education trainee teachers. It examines their experiences during and after the completion of their training. The study was conducted at a university in t... Read More about Moving into practice: Transitions from further education trainee teacher to lecturer.

Online simulation of real life experiences – the educational potential (2009)
Book Chapter

This paper outlines the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) strategy of the University of the West of England (UWE), UK, and demonstrates examples of simulations that use a mixture of web technologies, social networking and virtual worlds. In particul... Read More about Online simulation of real life experiences – the educational potential.

Individual target setting in a mainstream and special school: Tensions in understanding and ownership (2009)
Journal Article

Our research examined understandings of individual student target setting processes through semi-structured interviews with staff and students from two schools in England: a special school for students with severe learning difficulties and a linked m... Read More about Individual target setting in a mainstream and special school: Tensions in understanding and ownership.

Changing class and gendered identities through re-engaging with education: Tensions revealed in narrative accounts from two studies of adult returners (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution