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Education and poverty: mapping the terrain and making the links to educational policy (2009)
Journal Article
Raffo, C., Dyson, A., Gunter, H., Hall, D., Jones, L., & Kalambouka, A. (2009). Education and poverty: mapping the terrain and making the links to educational policy. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 13(4), 341-358. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603110802124462

Although there is widespread agreement that poverty and poor educational outcomes are related, there are different explanations about why that should be the case. The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual synthesis of some of the research... Read More about Education and poverty: mapping the terrain and making the links to educational policy.

‘No subject … more neglected’: Victorian elementary school history, 1862–1900 (2009)
Journal Article
Smith, J. T. (2009). ‘No subject … more neglected’: Victorian elementary school history, 1862–1900. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 41(2), 131-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620902808202

A significant positive relationship exists between the ratios of trade and educational spending to gross domestic product, implying that countries which are more open on the trade front also spend more on education. An open economy endogenous growth... Read More about ‘No subject … more neglected’: Victorian elementary school history, 1862–1900.

Higher education and UK elite formation in the twentieth century (2009)
Journal Article
Williams, G., & Filippakou, O. (2010). Higher education and UK elite formation in the twentieth century. Higher Education, 59(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-009-9229-6

This study examines the proposition that mass higher education is, in practice, less a network of more or less homogeneous activities than a series of concentric circles in which elite institutions remain at the centre, but are surrounded by increasi... Read More about Higher education and UK elite formation in the twentieth century.

Narrating regional identity in tourism – sketches from the Austrian Danube valley (2009)
Journal Article
Ploner, J. (2009). Narrating regional identity in tourism – sketches from the Austrian Danube valley. Language and Intercultural Communication, 9(1), 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708470802684465

This article sketches the processes of regionalisation in the realm of present day tourism. By exploring issues of ‘regional culture’ and ‘diversity’ in Austria, and more particular, in the highly symbolic Danube valley ‘Wachau’, the article shows ho... Read More about Narrating regional identity in tourism – sketches from the Austrian Danube valley.

Feedforward, -backward and neutral transparency measures for British English (2009)
Journal Article
Spencer, K. A. (2009). Feedforward, -backward and neutral transparency measures for British English. Behavior research methods, 41(1), 220-227. https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.41.1.220

Orthographic transparency metrics for opaque or deep languages such as French and English have tended to focus on feedforward and/or feedback directions, with claims made for the influence of both on reading. In the present study, data for five trans... Read More about Feedforward, -backward and neutral transparency measures for British English.

A decade of internationalisation: Has it influenced students' views of cross-cultural group work at University? (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Montgomery, C. A decade of internationalisation: Has it influenced students' views of cross-cultural group work at University?

This article considers how student views of collaborative study in a diverse international academic context may have changed in the past decade. A retrospective is provided on a research project carried out in 1998 that investigated students' views o... Read More about A decade of internationalisation: Has it influenced students' views of cross-cultural group work at University?.

'The enemy within?': the clergyman and the English school boards, 1870-1902 (2009)
Journal Article
Smith, J. T. (2009). 'The enemy within?': the clergyman and the English school boards, 1870-1902. History of education, 38(1), 133-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/00467600701824727

This paper seeks to ascertain the attitudes to, and work on, English school boards of clergymen from the three main Churches which had taken an active interest in education in England in the nineteenth century - the Church of England, the Roman Catho... Read More about 'The enemy within?': the clergyman and the English school boards, 1870-1902.

What is to be done? Implications for policy makers (2009)
Book Chapter
Dyson, A., Gunter, H., Hall, D., Raffo, C., & Jones, L. (2009). What is to be done? Implications for policy makers. In C. Raffo, A. Dyson, H. Gunter, D. Hall, L. Jones, & A. Kalambouka (Eds.), Education and poverty in affluent countries (195-215). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203860335

The review of frameworks and interventions in the previous chapter makes it abundantly clear that policy makers in Western democracies have been highly active in attempting to break the link between poverty and education. England and the US may be ex... Read More about What is to be done? Implications for policy makers.