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Research-Informed Teaching in a Global Pandemic: “Opening Up” Schools to Research during COVID-19 (2020)
Book Chapter
Connolly, C., Hall, A., Jones, S., & Proctor, R. (2020). Research-Informed Teaching in a Global Pandemic: “Opening Up” Schools to Research during COVID-19. In R. E. Ferdig, E. Baumgartner, R. Hartshorne, R. Kaplan-Rakowski, & C. Mouza (Eds.), Teaching, Technology, and Teacher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stories from the Field (609-616). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

In the last decade, teacher research has grown in importance across the three i’s of the teacher education continuum: initial, induction and in-service. This has been brought into even starker relief with the global spread of COVID-19. Now, perhaps m... Read More about Research-Informed Teaching in a Global Pandemic: “Opening Up” Schools to Research during COVID-19.

Rapport and Relationships: The Student Perspective on Teaching Excellence (2020)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, J., Hunt, L., Shaw, H., & Synmioe, D. (2020). Rapport and Relationships: The Student Perspective on Teaching Excellence. In K. Carruthers Thomas, & A. French (Eds.), Challenging the Teaching Excellence Framework: Diversity Deficits in Higher Education Evaluations (129-150). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-533-720201006

This chapter attempts to capture what teaching excellence looks and feels like for students. Our research reports on research conducted by two student authors at separate institutions. It suggests that the most crucial aspect of the student experienc... Read More about Rapport and Relationships: The Student Perspective on Teaching Excellence.

How Definitions of ‘Child Soldiers’ Exclude Girls from Demobilisation Efforts (2020)
Book Chapter
Kidd, A., & Dunhill, A. (2020). How Definitions of ‘Child Soldiers’ Exclude Girls from Demobilisation Efforts. In J. Muraszkiewicz, T. Fenton, & H. Watson (Eds.), Human Trafficking in Conflict - Context, Causes and the Military (183-197). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40838-1

Child soldiers meet the Palermo Protocol’s definition of ‘trafficking in persons’.
They are any person under 18, used in any capacity by armed forces or groups; this includes combatants, but also ancillary roles such as cooks, ‘wives’ and guards. Ho... Read More about How Definitions of ‘Child Soldiers’ Exclude Girls from Demobilisation Efforts.

Designing personalised, authentic and collaborative learning with mobile devices: Confronting the challenges of remote teaching during a pandemic. (2020)
Book Chapter
Kearney, M., Burden, K., & Schuck, S. (2020). Designing personalised, authentic and collaborative learning with mobile devices: Confronting the challenges of remote teaching during a pandemic. In R. E. Ferdig, E. Baumgartner, R. Hartshorne, R. Kaplan-Rakowski, & C. Mouza (Eds.), Teaching, Technology, and Teacher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Stories from the Field (661-666). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

This article offers teachers a digital pedagogical framework, research-inspired and underpinned by socio-cultural theory, to guide the design of personalised, authentic and collaborative learning scenarios for students using mobile devices in remote... Read More about Designing personalised, authentic and collaborative learning with mobile devices: Confronting the challenges of remote teaching during a pandemic..

Research-Informed Teaching in a Global Pandemic: "Opening up" Schools to Research (2020)
Book Chapter
Connolly, C., Hall, T., Jones, S.-L., & Procter, R. (2020). Research-Informed Teaching in a Global Pandemic: "Opening up" Schools to Research. In R. E. Ferdig, E. Baumgartner, R. Hartshorne, R. Kaplan-Rakowski, & C. Mouza (Eds.), Teaching, technology, and teacher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stories from the field (609-616). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

The teacher-research agenda has become a significant consideration for policy and professional development in a number of countries. Encouraging research-based teacher education programmes remains an important goal, where teachers are able to effecti... Read More about Research-Informed Teaching in a Global Pandemic: "Opening up" Schools to Research.

Study Circle as an Innovative Tool for Promoting Lifelong Learning and Community Empowerment (2020)
Book Chapter
Kurawa, G. (2020). Study Circle as an Innovative Tool for Promoting Lifelong Learning and Community Empowerment. In Teaching and Learning Strategies for Sustainable Development (159-175). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2055-364120200000019014

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 aimed at ensuring an inclusive, equitable, quality education, and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. However, this may not be effectively realized, as this chapter demonstrates, throug... Read More about Study Circle as an Innovative Tool for Promoting Lifelong Learning and Community Empowerment.

Offender Learning and Prison Education (2020)
Book Chapter
Wilkinson, S. (2020). Offender Learning and Prison Education. In J. Tummons (Ed.), PCET: Learning and teaching in the post compulsory sector (219-231). SAGE Publications

Using concepts drawn from complexity, organizational and management theories, the chapter considers the role and purpose of prison education and its place within the English prison system. What it is like to work in offender learning and the experien... Read More about Offender Learning and Prison Education.

Literature review (2019)
Book Chapter
Brown, D., & Fallin, L. (2019). Literature review. In C. Opie, & D. Brown (Eds.), Getting Started in Your Educational Research: Design, Data Production and Analysis (55-76). SAGE Publications

Analysing and presenting your research data (2019)
Book Chapter
Opie, C., & Fallin, L. (2019). Analysing and presenting your research data. In C. Opie, & D. Brown (Eds.), Getting started in your educational research: Design, data production and analysis (191-220). SAGE Publications

Using NVivo in your research (2019)
Book Chapter
Fallin, L. (2019). Using NVivo in your research. In C. Opie, & D. Brown (Eds.), Getting started in your educational research: Design, data production and analysis (243-274). SAGE Publications

Examining Teachers’ Professional Development for Promoting Inclusive Education in Displacement (2019)
Book Chapter
Kurawa, G. (2019). Examining Teachers’ Professional Development for Promoting Inclusive Education in Displacement. In B. M. Rice (Ed.), Global Perspectives on Inclusive Teacher Education (260-278). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7703-4.ch016

Inclusive education, in most countries affected by an emergency or crisis, is focused on providing access to quality education for all children. Provision of quality education for all children, as discussed in much literature about education, is very... Read More about Examining Teachers’ Professional Development for Promoting Inclusive Education in Displacement.

The Role of Education in the Resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: an Exploratory Discourse on the Plight of the Devastated Communities in the Northeast of Nigeria (2018)
Book Chapter
Musa, A., & Kurawa, G. (2018). The Role of Education in the Resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: an Exploratory Discourse on the Plight of the Devastated Communities in the Northeast of Nigeria. In E. Sengupta, & P. Blessinger (Eds.), Strategies, Policies, and Directions for Refugee Education (21-36). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2055-364120180000013002

The focus of this chapter is to analyze the impacts of the Boko Haram insurgency on education in the northeast of Nigeria. It also aims to examine the effectiveness of the educational interventions in the devastated communities in the northeastern st... Read More about The Role of Education in the Resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: an Exploratory Discourse on the Plight of the Devastated Communities in the Northeast of Nigeria.

Disrupting education using smart mobile pedagogies (2018)
Book Chapter
Kearney, M., Burden, K., & Schuck, S. (2018). Disrupting education using smart mobile pedagogies. In L. Daniela (Ed.), Didactics of smart pedagogy: Smart pedagogy for technology enhanced learning (139-157). Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01551-0_7

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. As mobile technologies become more multifaceted and ubiquitous in society, educational researchers are investigating the use of these technologies in education. A growing body of evidence shows that traditional... Read More about Disrupting education using smart mobile pedagogies.

A critical analysis of the theoretical construction and empirical measurement of cognitive load (2017)
Book Chapter
Martin, S. (2017). A critical analysis of the theoretical construction and empirical measurement of cognitive load. In R. Z. Zheng (Ed.), Cognitive load measurement and application: A theoretical framework for meaningful research and practice (29-44). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315296258-3

The application of cognitive load theory has been at the forefront of work in cognition and learning for some time. Cognitive load theory seeks to explain how and why some material is more difficult to learn and is based on the proposition that the h... Read More about A critical analysis of the theoretical construction and empirical measurement of cognitive load.

Who cares and how would you know? Conceptualising ‘doxic’ care (2017)
Book Chapter
Hughes, G. (2017). Who cares and how would you know? Conceptualising ‘doxic’ care. In J. Horton, & M. Pyer (Eds.), Children, young people and care (26-43). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315686752-2

This chapter draws from a study which explores the conceptualisations of care in theory and practice, examining (in Pierre Bourdieu’s terms) its ‘doxic’ qualities: that is, how it often seems ‘natural’, ‘self-evident’, or ‘understood without question... Read More about Who cares and how would you know? Conceptualising ‘doxic’ care.