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Navigating the graduate labour market: the impact of social class on student understandings of graduate careers and the graduate labour market (2019)
Journal Article
Burke, C., Scurry, T., & Blenkinsopp, J. (2020). Navigating the graduate labour market: the impact of social class on student understandings of graduate careers and the graduate labour market. Studies in Higher Education, 45(8), 1711-1722. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1702014

Significant expansions in higher education over the last few decades have raised concerns about an over-supply of graduates in the labour market, such that a degree no longer seamlessly translates into a graduate career or occupation, with the increa... Read More about Navigating the graduate labour market: the impact of social class on student understandings of graduate careers and the graduate labour market.

Discussing atypical sexual harassment as a controversial issue in bystander programmes: One UK campus study (2019)
Journal Article
Bovill, H., Waller, R., & McCartan, K. (2019). Discussing atypical sexual harassment as a controversial issue in bystander programmes: One UK campus study. Sexuality and Culture, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-019-09682-8

This research emanates from an anti-sexual violence bystander programme delivered at an English university. Fifteen students were identified through purposive and convenience sampling to take part in focus groups. Discussions emerged regarding atypic... Read More about Discussing atypical sexual harassment as a controversial issue in bystander programmes: One UK campus study.

Valuing a translingual mindset in researcher education in Anglophone higher education: Supervision perspectives (2019)
Journal Article
Andrews, J., & Fay, R. (2020). Valuing a translingual mindset in researcher education in Anglophone higher education: Supervision perspectives. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 23(2), 188-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2019.1677701

This article explores some implications of plurilingualism and translingual practice for teaching and learning in higher education. Research in this area tends to focus on the undergraduate experience whereas our focus is on doctoral supervision, a l... Read More about Valuing a translingual mindset in researcher education in Anglophone higher education: Supervision perspectives.

Creativity within the foundation phase curriculum: A risky business? (2019)
Journal Article
Chicken, S. (2020). Creativity within the foundation phase curriculum: A risky business?. Education 3-13, 48(6), 733-745. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2019.1646298

Whilst creative behaviours are viewed as twenty-first century competencies [Davies, L.M., L.D. Newton, and D.P. Newton. 2017. “Creativity As a Twenty-First-Century Competence: An Exploratory Study of Provision and Reality.” Education 3–13, 879–891.],... Read More about Creativity within the foundation phase curriculum: A risky business?.

Mature female learners activating agency after completion of an education foundation degree: professional progression and the teacher shortage crisis (2019)
Journal Article
Bovill, H., Harrison, N., Smith, H., Bennett, V., & McKenzie, L. (2021). Mature female learners activating agency after completion of an education foundation degree: professional progression and the teacher shortage crisis. Research Papers in Education, 36(2), 196-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2019.1633565

This paper draws upon questionnaire data from 126 mature, female alumni students and interviews with a subset of 20 participants who completed education foundation degrees in three English universities in the South West. Three illustrative cases from... Read More about Mature female learners activating agency after completion of an education foundation degree: professional progression and the teacher shortage crisis.

Liberal ideals, postmodern practice: A working paradox for the future of secondary school art education in England? (2019)
Journal Article
Grant, W. (2020). Liberal ideals, postmodern practice: A working paradox for the future of secondary school art education in England?. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 39(1), 56-68. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12228

Modern liberal rationales continue to inform a majority of teaching and learning in English art classrooms. In a postmodern Western society increasingly informed by neoliberal globalisation this approach begins to look either like an anachronism or a... Read More about Liberal ideals, postmodern practice: A working paradox for the future of secondary school art education in England?.

Adapting our diets for global climate change: Could eating bugs really be an answer? (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, V. (in press). Adapting our diets for global climate change: Could eating bugs really be an answer?. Teaching Geography, 44(2), 72-74

This article suggests different ways of looking at the global food crisis in the classroom and asks if we can ask our students to consider making radical changes to their diets.

Decent work in the UK: Context, conceptualization, and assessment (2019)
Journal Article
Dodd, V., Hooley, T., & Burke, C. (2019). Decent work in the UK: Context, conceptualization, and assessment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 112, 270-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2019.04.002

Access to decent work is an important goal for policymakers and for individuals navigating their working lives. Decent work is a career goal for individuals and a priority for many employers and policy makers seeking to promote social justice. Decent... Read More about Decent work in the UK: Context, conceptualization, and assessment.

Listening to the voices of children: an illuminative evaluation of the teaching of early reading in the light of the phonics screening check (2019)
Journal Article
Carter, J. (2020). Listening to the voices of children: an illuminative evaluation of the teaching of early reading in the light of the phonics screening check. Literacy, 54(1), 49-57. https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12187

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The phonics screening check (PSC) was introduced in England in 2012 for children in Year 1. There have been criticisms in relation to its reliability and appropriateness as an assessment tool for early reading althoug... Read More about Listening to the voices of children: an illuminative evaluation of the teaching of early reading in the light of the phonics screening check.

Curiosity into creation: Can we teach science through engineering? (2019)
Journal Article
Lewis, F., Edmonds, J., & Fogg-Rogers, L. (2019). Curiosity into creation: Can we teach science through engineering?. Primary Science, 156, 8-10

An examination of how the science objectives of the primary national Curriculum can be taught through the engineering design process and through 'real-world' contextualized engineering problems.