Can academic practice make perfect?
(2009)
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This document is the output from a project commissioned under the Prime Minister's Initiative on international student mobility and undertaken by ThinkingPeople, the University of the West of England and the University of Bath and published by UKCISA... Read More about Discussing difference, discovering similarities: A toolkit of learning activities to improve cross-cultural exchange between students of different cultural backgrounds.
Suitable work for women? Roles, relationships and changing identities of 'other adults' in the early years classroom (2008)
Journal Article
This article explores some of the issues around the agenda for workforce reform as it applies to professionals who work in early years classrooms (4-7 year olds), who work alongside class teachers in supporting learning. Their changing roles, respons... Read More about Suitable work for women? Roles, relationships and changing identities of 'other adults' in the early years classroom.
The structure and implications of children's attitudes to school (2008)
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The paper reports a study of children's attitudes to school based on a questionnaire survey of 845 pupils in their first year of secondary school in England, together with interviews with a sample of the children. A clearly structured set of attitude... Read More about The structure and implications of children's attitudes to school.
Rapid reform and unfinished business: The development of education in independent Latvia 1991-2007 (2008)
Journal Article
Education in Latvia has changed a great deal in the last 15 years. The development of an independent and democratic state system has creatively combined elements of foreign experience and influence with the enrichment and further development of featu... Read More about Rapid reform and unfinished business: The development of education in independent Latvia 1991-2007.
Special needs and inclusion: Voices narratives and stories (2008)
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The home school knowledge exchange project: Linking home and school to improve children's literacy (2008)
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The Government is urging teachers to engage more closely with families and is promoting the concept of the 'extended' school. This article reports on the literacy strand of the Home School Knowledge Exchange (HSKE) project, directed by Professor Mart... Read More about The home school knowledge exchange project: Linking home and school to improve children's literacy.
Learning together and learning alone in Second Life (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A common complaint about virtual worlds is that when one visits them there is no one there and nothing to do. Virtual worlds offer interesting potential for collaborative learning events, but it is less obvious how they can enhance individual learni... Read More about Learning together and learning alone in Second Life.
The boundaries of competency within Lisbon and Bologna: The short-cycle/foundation learner (2008)
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The concept of competency is considered both in relation to the educational competency of the short-cycle student described in the 'Dublin Descriptors' of the Bologna Process and in the European Commission's European Qualifications Framework, and in... Read More about The boundaries of competency within Lisbon and Bologna: The short-cycle/foundation learner.
Bridging the gap: the personal within the policy implementation of the National Literacy Strategy (2008)
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In 1997, a New Labour government swept into power promising to prioritise Education, Education, Education. Speaking to delegates of the National Association of Head Teachers in June of 1999, the Prime Minister claimed that Literacy and Numeracy Strat... Read More about Bridging the gap: the personal within the policy implementation of the National Literacy Strategy.
Bristol leaders of learning update (2008)
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Using talk effectively in the primary classroom (2008)
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Evaluating the use of metaphor in online learning environments (2008)
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Metaphor appears to be an innate tendency in human communication and can be shown to have significant potential when applied to the design of online learning environments. This paper describes and discusses an example of an online research methods le... Read More about Evaluating the use of metaphor in online learning environments.
From no-man's land to porous borders (2008)
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Beyond the student experience: rethinking higher education for the 21st Century (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Creating a CPD community in Scottish education through teacher learning representatives (BERA) (2008)
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School-based factors that can enhance attendance (2008)
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Dual-sector further and higher education: Policies, organisations and students in transition (2008)
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Colleges and universities that provide both further and higher education are a key component of government policies to expand participation in English undergraduate education. The opportunities for access and progression made available by these organ... Read More about Dual-sector further and higher education: Policies, organisations and students in transition.
White middle-class parents, identities, educational choice and the urban comprehensive school: Dilemmas, ambivalence and moral ambiguity (2008)
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At a time when the public sector and state education (in the United Kingdom) is under threat from the encroaching marketisation policy and private finance initiatives, our research reveals white middle-class parents who in spite of having the financi... Read More about White middle-class parents, identities, educational choice and the urban comprehensive school: Dilemmas, ambivalence and moral ambiguity.