Outputs (41)

Working class men on care based degrees (2024)
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This talk draws on data from a small qualitative study of men on care-based degree pathways in one university in England. There is little research that specifically considers the experiences of working-class men on these courses. The talk explores as... Read More about Working class men on care based degrees.

Alternative education: Inclusion beyond the mainstream (2024)
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This panel responds to February’s review of alternative provision in England (CQC & Ofsted, 2024) and June’s BBC investigation revealing that numbers of UK children moving from schools to home education are at their highest levels since covid (Hatten... Read More about Alternative education: Inclusion beyond the mainstream.

Embedding early intervention at the heart of alternative provision (2024)
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Embedding Early Intervention at the Heart of Alternative Provision - Opportunities, Challenges and Future Pathways.

Reading for Science: The use of scientific literary materials in primary schools (2024)
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Scientific literary materials (SLMs) present science content in genres such as narratives and poems as well as traditional non-fiction genres. SLMs have the potential to engage children and teachers who are non-science enthusiasts or specialists wit... Read More about Reading for Science: The use of scientific literary materials in primary schools.

Exploring the complex, emergent choreography of classroom teaching and learning (2024)
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Classroom learning is a complex, emergent phenomenon. Classroom teaching is a complex, dynamic activity. Together, learning and teaching occupy a complex, non-linear and relational space which is often oversimplified and misunderstood. This paper dra... Read More about Exploring the complex, emergent choreography of classroom teaching and learning.

Initial art and design teacher education: Transgression and flux (2023)
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Initial teacher education (ITE) is frequently considered a liminal space of flux where learners' knowledge, identity, and values are challenged and changed. Characteristics of this flux include navigation of new connections between personal and profe... Read More about Initial art and design teacher education: Transgression and flux.

Supporting new teachers: Insights from the education system in England (2023)
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How to prepare student teachers and support them in their first few years in school is a fundamental consideration for education systems around the world. In this webinar we discuss how this is approached in England. Will Grant, Programme Lead for th... Read More about Supporting new teachers: Insights from the education system in England.

The pupil referral unit to prison pipeline (2023)
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Both school exclusion, poverty and disability are prospective markers for increased risk of subsequent contact with criminal justice system in general and justice-involved samples. However, relationships between school exclusion and these factors hav... Read More about The pupil referral unit to prison pipeline.

From researching professional to professional researcher: Navigating the transition into academic via a professional doctorate (2023)
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The recent proliferation of professional doctorate routes (PD) internationally (Jones, 2018) coupled with the potential these offer to create pathways from various professional contexts into research roles within academic (Lundgren-Resenterra & Kahn,... Read More about From researching professional to professional researcher: Navigating the transition into academic via a professional doctorate.

The relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision (2023)
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This paper is based on qualitative data gained from young working-class men with disabilities on the margins of Alternative Provisions (APs), located within a medium sized local authority in England. Young males are disproportionately placed into APs... Read More about The relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision.

An art and design initial teacher education student conference: Seeking value in inter-institutional ITE student knowledge share (2023)
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Highly effective secondary school teachers work collegiately (Shah 2012), and increasingly do so outside of individual institutions (e.g. within MAT clusters [Birks 2019]). Beyond professional efficacy, learning to establish and maintain strong colle... Read More about An art and design initial teacher education student conference: Seeking value in inter-institutional ITE student knowledge share.

Critical perspectives on educational policies and professional identities: Lessons from doctoral studies (symposium) (2023)
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This symposium, which showcases an edited collection of work by recent UK doctoral graduates (Authors, forthcoming), begins with a short introduction setting the scene for the wider project. It demonstrates the unique contribution of ‘insider’, pract... Read More about Critical perspectives on educational policies and professional identities: Lessons from doctoral studies (symposium).

Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education (2023)
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Recent years have seen families of certain schoolchildren encouraged to deregister and begin home education. Ofsted (2019) considers the practice to serve a school’s purposes rather than children’s best interests. The Children’s Commissioner (2019) s... Read More about Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education.

Relationships on the margins of alternative provision (2023)
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A style of work in education that prioritises the maintenance of helpful staff-student relations would hardly seem contentious. Such work might even be considered as crucial within settings that specifically set out to cater for students in the after... Read More about Relationships on the margins of alternative provision.

The Other Side of the Bridge: Disability, Class and Social Exclusion (2023)
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Absence of value - Masculinity, disability and class in alternative provision (2023)
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In this paper, I explore aspects of alternative provision (AP), education settings created to provide short-term support for school-aged young people in England excluded from or unable to be placed in ‘regular’ schools. AP is an element of the
Engli... Read More about Absence of value - Masculinity, disability and class in alternative provision.

Drawing on community knowledge to engage diverse communities with their children's learning (2023)
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Minoritsed groups are not always comfortable engaging with schools through the traditional approaches used (Moll et al., 1992). Without the engagement and inclusion of all groups, mistrust and conflict is given the space to grow. We also know that be... Read More about Drawing on community knowledge to engage diverse communities with their children's learning.

The adoption of a pre-teach approach for HE ITE  (2023)
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This work focusses on pre-service teacher learning of curriculum subject knowledge content.

The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) has trialled a pre-teaching approach to address mathematical subject knowledge an... Read More about The adoption of a pre-teach approach for HE ITE .

Amplifying Young Children’s Voices: Educational Experiences of 3- to 7-year-olds in Wales During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
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This Welsh Government-funded study aimed to capture the voices of young children during the COVID-19 pandemic regarding their educational experiences. Longitudinal research suggests young children’s early educational experiences shape their developme... Read More about Amplifying Young Children’s Voices: Educational Experiences of 3- to 7-year-olds in Wales During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Exploring the Enactment of UNCRC Article 12 in Welsh Early Years Classrooms in relation to curriculum decisions (2022)
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