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Complex adaptive system behaviours in small group interaction: A year 4 classroom case study of learning as ‘emergence’ (2022)
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Knight, B. Complex adaptive system behaviours in small group interaction: A year 4 classroom case study of learning as ‘emergence’. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9030663

Depictions of classroom teaching and learning in politics, policy and media tend to be over simplified and mechanistic. Insights from research on classroom learning draw largely on the ‘what works’ paradigm, which presents learning as directly caused... Read More about Complex adaptive system behaviours in small group interaction: A year 4 classroom case study of learning as ‘emergence’.

In search of the teachable moment: A study of teacher autonomy, judgement and intuition (2011)
Thesis
Knight, B. In search of the teachable moment: A study of teacher autonomy, judgement and intuition. (Dissertation). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/969693

Aspects of teaching, such as those relating to curriculum development and the protocols of the teaching cycle (planning, delivery, assessment) receive much attention in literature and are regularly the focus of evaluation. Somewhat neglected by comp... Read More about In search of the teachable moment: A study of teacher autonomy, judgement and intuition.