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Challenging conceptions of 'Western' higher education and promoting graduates as global citizens (2014)
Journal Article
Clifford, V., & Montgomery, C. (2014). Challenging conceptions of 'Western' higher education and promoting graduates as global citizens. Higher Education Quarterly, 68(1), 28-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12029

Recently there has been a shift in the discourses of university policy from internationalisation towards the contested concept of global citizenship. This paper explores ways of challenging the current interpretation of international education policy... Read More about Challenging conceptions of 'Western' higher education and promoting graduates as global citizens.

'Picturesque and dramatic' or 'dull recitals of threadbare fare': good practice in history teaching in elementary schools in England, 1872-1905 (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, J. T. (2014). 'Picturesque and dramatic' or 'dull recitals of threadbare fare': good practice in history teaching in elementary schools in England, 1872-1905. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 46(1), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2014.856873

This article draws on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century teaching manuals, reports of Her Majesty's Inspectors, history textbooks ('readers'), other administrators' and teachers' accounts, policy documents and pupils' reminiscences to refut... Read More about 'Picturesque and dramatic' or 'dull recitals of threadbare fare': good practice in history teaching in elementary schools in England, 1872-1905.

Leadership, sustainability and ethics (2014)
Book Chapter
Bottery, M. (2014). Leadership, sustainability and ethics. In C. M. Branson, & S. Gross (Eds.), Handbook of ethical educational leadership (81 - 92). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203747582-12

This chapter is concerned with what educational leaders can lear about the ethics of their practice from a study of environmental systems. It examiners three sources for such learning. One source is from an understanding of the epistemology of these... Read More about Leadership, sustainability and ethics.

Access denied? Twenty-first-century technology in schools (2013)
Journal Article
Male, T., & Burden, K. (2014). Access denied? Twenty-first-century technology in schools. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 23(4), 423-437. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475939x.2013.864697

This article considers how developments in technologies have transformed the kind of social interaction possible over the Internet making it feasible to undertake discourse and dialogue without having to rely solely on text based mediation. This repr... Read More about Access denied? Twenty-first-century technology in schools.

Conceptions of person-centered education in the 21st century : developing a position statement for ways of being in educational organizations (2013)
Journal Article
Hope, M. A. (2014). Conceptions of person-centered education in the 21st century : developing a position statement for ways of being in educational organizations. Person-centered & experiential psychotherapies : PCEP, 13(3), 217-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2013.811610

Across the world, policies and practices within education are changing, and this presents a small window of opportunity for person-centered educators to put principles into practice within mainstream educational systems. In this context, it is import... Read More about Conceptions of person-centered education in the 21st century : developing a position statement for ways of being in educational organizations.

'They know what you are going through': A service response to young people who have experienced the impact of domestic abuse (2013)
Journal Article
Coburn, A., & Gormally, S. (2014). 'They know what you are going through': A service response to young people who have experienced the impact of domestic abuse. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(5), 642-663. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2013.844779

Riverside Women's Aid offers a specialised youth service for young people who have experienced or been affected by domestic abuse in one town in Scotland. This article discusses findings from a research evaluation that examined the advantages of part... Read More about 'They know what you are going through': A service response to young people who have experienced the impact of domestic abuse.

Social class (in)visibility and the professional experiences of middle-class novice teachers (2013)
Journal Article
Hall, D., & Jones, L. (2013). Social class (in)visibility and the professional experiences of middle-class novice teachers. Journal of education for teaching : JET, 39(4), 416-428. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2013.782121

This article focuses upon the classed and early professional experiences of middle-class novice teachers in England experiencing and contemplating working in schools serving socio-economically disadvantaged communities. Through an examination of the... Read More about Social class (in)visibility and the professional experiences of middle-class novice teachers.

Pedagogical leadership in the 21st century: evidence from the field (2013)
Journal Article
Male, T., & Palaiologou, I. (2015). Pedagogical leadership in the 21st century: evidence from the field. Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 43(2), 214-231. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143213494889

Literature examining effective leadership in education describe a number of models such as Transformational, Learner-Centred, Distributed and Situational. A similar example is ‘pedagogical leadership’, a phrase that frequently appears in literature a... Read More about Pedagogical leadership in the 21st century: evidence from the field.

ICT Tools for Professional Development (2013)
Book Chapter
Jones, S.-L., & Younie, S. (2013). ICT Tools for Professional Development. In M. Leask, & N. Pachler (Eds.), Learning to Teach Using ICT in the Secondary School (40-54). (3rd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203124208

This chapter covers key considerations in the use of ICT tools for the continual professional development of teachers. Both professional development and ICT tools are first defined before looking at specific tools. The use of ePortfolios is discussed... Read More about ICT Tools for Professional Development.

‘Old Wine in Even Newer Bottles’: the uneasy relationship between web 2.0 technologies and European school collaboration (2013)
Journal Article
Gouseti, A. (2013). ‘Old Wine in Even Newer Bottles’: the uneasy relationship between web 2.0 technologies and European school collaboration. European Journal of Education, 48(4), 570-585. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12051

The idea of using digital technologies and in particular web 2.0 tools to enhance school collaboration has recently been received with great enthusiasm and a range of new collaborative initiatives has emerged. Through a comparative qualitative case s... Read More about ‘Old Wine in Even Newer Bottles’: the uneasy relationship between web 2.0 technologies and European school collaboration.

Transformational leadership and globalization: attitudes of school principals in Kuwait (2013)
Journal Article
Alsaeedi, F., & Male, T. (2013). Transformational leadership and globalization: attitudes of school principals in Kuwait. Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 41(5), 640-657. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143213488588

The study explores the attitudes of a sample of school principals in a Kuwaiti local authority towards the need for transformational leadership, the use of its behaviours, whether these school leaders are ready to behave in diverse ways or whether th... Read More about Transformational leadership and globalization: attitudes of school principals in Kuwait.

Open education resources and higher education academic practice (2013)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, P., Younie, S., & Jones, S. (2013). Open education resources and higher education academic practice. Campus-Wide Information Systems, 30(3), 186-193. https://doi.org/10.1108/10650741311330366

Purpose: This paper aims to report on an externally-funded project and forms part of its dissemination. Design/methodology/approach: The objectives are achieved through a theoretical framing of the project and an alignment of these with the contexts... Read More about Open education resources and higher education academic practice.

Translational research principles applied to education: the mapping educational specialist knowhow (MESH) initiative (2013)
Journal Article
Burden, K., Younie, S., & Leask, M. (2013). Translational research principles applied to education: the mapping educational specialist knowhow (MESH) initiative. Journal of education for teaching : JET, 39(4), 459-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2013.801216

MESH is a part of a research project applying knowledge management principles which are well known in other sectors, public and private, to the education sector (Leask, 2011, 2012; Leask and Younie 2013, Leask and Preston 2012). The goal is to develo... Read More about Translational research principles applied to education: the mapping educational specialist knowhow (MESH) initiative.

Fit for purpose: traditional assessment is failing undergraduates with learning difficulties. Might eAssessment help? (2013)
Journal Article
Williams, P., Wray, J., Farrall, H., & Aspland, J. (2014). Fit for purpose: traditional assessment is failing undergraduates with learning difficulties. Might eAssessment help?. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 18(6), 614-625. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2013.802029

Recent years have seen unprecedented growth in the size, diversity and academic orientation of undergraduate student populations. There is evidence that the use of innovative pedagogies using information and communications technology has the potentia... Read More about Fit for purpose: traditional assessment is failing undergraduates with learning difficulties. Might eAssessment help?.

Pupil Mobility: Using Students' Voices to Explore their Experiences of Changing Schools (2013)
Journal Article
Messiou, K., & Jones, L. (2015). Pupil Mobility: Using Students' Voices to Explore their Experiences of Changing Schools. Children & society, 29(4), 255-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12026

© 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd and National Children's Bureau. This article explores the ways in which students' voices can be used to analyse the process of moving schools, at a time outside of those that young people normally change schools. The pa... Read More about Pupil Mobility: Using Students' Voices to Explore their Experiences of Changing Schools.

An overview of web-based school collaboration: a history of success or failure? (2013)
Journal Article
Gouseti, A. (2013). An overview of web-based school collaboration: a history of success or failure?. Cambridge Journal of Education, 43(3), 377-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2013.792785

The notion of school collaboration has become widely recognised as an effective means of fostering cultural links and supporting communication between geographically separated schools. As shall be acknowledged in this paper, school collaboration foll... Read More about An overview of web-based school collaboration: a history of success or failure?.

Teaching Systematic Synthetic Phonics and Early English (2013)
Book
Glazzard, J., & Stokoe, J. (2013). Teaching Systematic Synthetic Phonics and Early English. Critical Publishing

An essential guide for all primary trainees and teachers. The text addresses the specifics of teaching English in the early years and importantly places systematic synthetic phonics within the context of early English as a whole. It starts by examini... Read More about Teaching Systematic Synthetic Phonics and Early English.

Mobilising teacher education: a study of a professional learning community (2013)
Journal Article
Schuck, S., Aubusson, P., Kearney, M., & Burden, K. (2013). Mobilising teacher education: a study of a professional learning community. Teacher Development, 17(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13664530.2012.752671

This paper reports on a study of a community of university educators that investigated the introduction of mobile technologies into their learning and teaching. The study was conducted by a subgroup of that community. Given the ubiquity of mobile dev... Read More about Mobilising teacher education: a study of a professional learning community.

Improving sustainability : what can education learn from other complex systems? (2013)
Journal Article
Bottery, M. (2013). Improving sustainability : what can education learn from other complex systems?. Educational research journal, 28(42767), 11444

This article is concerned with the causes of unsustainability in complex systems, and what educators can learn from such a study. It argues that there are a number of similar stressors in many complex systems. The systems chosen to illustrate this ar... Read More about Improving sustainability : what can education learn from other complex systems?.

Tourist literature and the ideological grammar of landscape in the Austrian Danube Valley, ca. 1870–1945 (2012)
Journal Article
Ploner, J. (2012). Tourist literature and the ideological grammar of landscape in the Austrian Danube Valley, ca. 1870–1945. Journal of Tourism History, 4(3), 237-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2012.711376

With its allure of transnationalism, border-crossing and timelessness, the Danube, unlike any other European river, has provided a rich and diverse image reservoir for travel and tourism writing for centuries. Symbolizing the continuous flow through... Read More about Tourist literature and the ideological grammar of landscape in the Austrian Danube Valley, ca. 1870–1945.