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Facilitating the design of data-informed andragogic tools to promote hypercognition for UK access to higher education learners (2021)
Thesis
Access to Higher Education courses in the UK serve the purpose of providing a route to Higher Education level study for those without the requisite qualifications to do so. However, students on these courses tend to be disproportionately from groups... Read More about Facilitating the design of data-informed andragogic tools to promote hypercognition for UK access to higher education learners.
Raising awareness of neurodiversity my lived experience of dyspraxia (2021)
Digital Artefact
Engineering science education: The impact of a paired peer approach on subject knowledge confidence and self-efficacy levels of student teachers (2021)
Journal Article
Teacher performance has been linked with both self-efficacy and subject knowledge confidence suggesting that it is important to address these aspects within initial teacher training programmes. This study investigated the development of pre-service t... Read More about Engineering science education: The impact of a paired peer approach on subject knowledge confidence and self-efficacy levels of student teachers.
Reading and the STEM curriculum (2021)
Book Chapter
This thesis explores the views of trainee teachers on two different training routes to a PGCE Primary qualification (School Direct and Core) on the formation of a professional identity. This thesis is set within the context of continuously developing... Read More about Teacher training in England: Exploring views of trainee teachers, from two different training routes, on the formation of their professional identity.
Cyprus: A Classroom Without Walls - Volume 1 (2021)
Book
Cyprus: a Classroom without walls Vol 1 is available in print and paper copy in English, Greek and Turkish versions) free of charge to Cypriot schools and teacher educators via the AHDR and is available online https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RUL2o9a... Read More about Cyprus: A Classroom Without Walls - Volume 1.
Benefits and barriers: A case study to explore teaching and learning in physics using a collaborative learning platform (2021)
Thesis
This is professionally focused case study research (Stake, 2005) which demonstrates pupil perceptions of the benefits and barriers to the collaborative learning of physics using a teacher-designed online learning platform.
‘The case’ is the resea... Read More about Benefits and barriers: A case study to explore teaching and learning in physics using a collaborative learning platform.
‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home (2020)
Journal Article
Consumer virtual reality (VR) headsets (e.g. Oculus Go) have brought VR non-fiction (VRNF) within reach of at-home audiences. However, despite increase in VR hardware sales and enthusiasm for the platform among niche audiences at festivals, mainstrea... Read More about ‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home.
Hegemony (2020)
Book Chapter
Hegemony is one the most powerful concepts to understand reality in any social scientist's toolbox. Hegemony comes from the term - hegemon meaning leader. Gramsci’s works presented the provocation: how can power be won, and how can it be sustained. T... Read More about Hegemony.
Social Research and Disability: Developing Inclusive Research Spaces for Disabled Researchers (2020)
Book
Social Research and Disability argues that the contemporary rules of sociological methods outlined in numerous research methods texts make a number of assumptions concerning the researcher including ambulance, sight, hearing and speech. In short, the... Read More about Social Research and Disability: Developing Inclusive Research Spaces for Disabled Researchers.
Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education: Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research (2020)
Book
Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education brings together an international group of scholars who shine a theoretical light on the politics of academic life and higher education. The book covers three key areas:
1) Institutional governance... Read More about Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education: Critical Perspectives on Institutional Research.
PHEADRUS: Using Gadamer’s interpretive phenomenology to examine the pedagogy of business schools (2020)
Thesis
This research project started as a demonstration of how the interpretive phenomenology and hermeneutics of Hans Georg Gadamer could be applied to the study of business pedagogy. It became a journey that ended as a narrative of how engagement in a phe... Read More about PHEADRUS: Using Gadamer’s interpretive phenomenology to examine the pedagogy of business schools.
Understanding students’ critical thinking ability: A comparative case of Chinese and British undergraduates (2020)
Journal Article
The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent the language factor contributes to students’ critical thinking abilities. The critical thinking (CT) skills and abilities of final year undergraduate students studying on the same program we... Read More about Understanding students’ critical thinking ability: A comparative case of Chinese and British undergraduates.
Stories of family in working‐class graduates’ early careers (2020)
Journal Article
How do young graduates view the role of immediate families in influencing/supporting them as they start their working lives and how do those reflections affect how they think of themselves as graduates? Social, political and economic changes have led... Read More about Stories of family in working‐class graduates’ early careers.
Exploring how play-based pedagogies support mixed ethnic identity formation (2020)
Thesis
This thesis explores some of the ways in which children’s ethnic identities have been conceptualised by sociocultural and funds of knowledge (FOK) theorisation. Situated within the context of a private day nursery in the north of England, the study p... Read More about Exploring how play-based pedagogies support mixed ethnic identity formation.
What 'gives life' to critical pedagogy in the lifelong learning sector? (2020)
Thesis
Critical pedagogy is an educational philosophy and approach to teaching and learning which challenges social and political hierarchies, and questions of power. Teachers and students co-create knowledge in order to develop an awareness of oppressive s... Read More about What 'gives life' to critical pedagogy in the lifelong learning sector?.
Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom (2020)
Journal Article
This article considers how primary science curriculum planning can be framed around the Sustainable Development Goals (2015). As a case study it presents how learning about insects on a bug hunt in the playground can quickly transform into more cont... Read More about Good enough to eat or just to hunt? Edible insects, the Sustainable Development Goals and the primary classroom.
The possibility and importance of immersive technologies during COVID-19 for autistic people (2020)
Journal Article
© 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify three key areas where autistic people may find themselves impacted through COVID-19, namely, education; employment; and anxiety. Design/methodology/approach: This p... Read More about The possibility and importance of immersive technologies during COVID-19 for autistic people.
Bug Burgers? The climate emergency and eating insects (2020)
Journal Article
Here I outline how a four-stage approach framed classroom discussion around the global food crisis and its associated socio-economic and environmental impacts. In the discussion pupils considered whether they would be prepared to eat insects rather t... Read More about Bug Burgers? The climate emergency and eating insects.