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The Preschool Transition in Latin America: is it the same process than in developed countries? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urbina Garcia, A. (2016, August). The Preschool Transition in Latin America: is it the same process than in developed countries?. Presented at European Early Childhood Research Association Annual Conference (EECERA), Dublin, Ireland

The main aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of transition between preschool and first grade primary school held by teachers, headteachers and parents in the public education system in Mexico City. The preschool transition-research has s... Read More about The Preschool Transition in Latin America: is it the same process than in developed countries?.

Assessing collaborative learning: big data, analytics and university futures (2016)
Journal Article
Williams, P. (2017). Assessing collaborative learning: big data, analytics and university futures. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 42(6), 978-989. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2016.1216084

Traditionally, assessment in higher education has focused on the performance of individual students. This focus has been a practical as well as an epistemic one: methods of assessment are constrained by the technology of the day, and in the past they... Read More about Assessing collaborative learning: big data, analytics and university futures.

Tourism at the Olympic Games: Visiting the world (2016)
Book
Ploner, J., & Robinson, M. (2016). Tourism at the Olympic Games: Visiting the world. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315674773

Going far beyond being just a mega sport event, the Olympic Games are, and have been in the past, important settings for tourism and cultural change. Hosting the Olympic Games presents a unique opportunity for countries to promote, regenerate, and de... Read More about Tourism at the Olympic Games: Visiting the world.

Not so simple: The threats to leadership sustainability (2016)
Journal Article
Bottery, M. (2016). Not so simple: The threats to leadership sustainability. Management in Education, 30(3), 97-101. https://doi.org/10.1177/0892020616653059

This article begins by examining the possible meanings of ‘sustainability’, and argues that most meanings are prescriptive rather than descriptive in nature: they tend, either overtly or covertly, to recommend the particular end-states that writers d... Read More about Not so simple: The threats to leadership sustainability.

Key questions in education (2016)
Book
Smith, J. (2016). Key questions in education. Bloomsbury Publishing

The media is full of reference to failing schools, troublesome pupils, underperforming boys, disappearing childhood and a teaching profession in crisis as more and more teachers contemplate abandoning their careers. Key Questions in Education looks a... Read More about Key questions in education.

When worlds collide - examining the challenges faced by teacher education programmes combining professional vocational competence with academic study, lessons from further education to higher education (2016)
Journal Article
Shaw, A. (2016). When worlds collide - examining the challenges faced by teacher education programmes combining professional vocational competence with academic study, lessons from further education to higher education. Universal journal of educational research, 4(5), 1111-1116. https://doi.org/10.13189/ujer.2016.040521

This paper examines the challenges faced by higher education institutions in designing, teaching and quality assuring programmes of study which, of necessity, must combine the gaining of professional vocational competence with academic study. The pap... Read More about When worlds collide - examining the challenges faced by teacher education programmes combining professional vocational competence with academic study, lessons from further education to higher education.

Beyond books: the concept of the academic library as learning space (2016)
Journal Article
Fallin, L. (2016). Beyond books: the concept of the academic library as learning space. New library world, 117(5-6), 308-320. https://doi.org/10.1108/NLW-10-2015-0079

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The paper aims to explore the issues surrounding the user conceptualisation of academic libraries. The paper will solidify the role of academic libraries as learning spaces and problematise how lib... Read More about Beyond books: the concept of the academic library as learning space.

Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia (2016)
Journal Article
Naef, P., & Ploner, J. (2016). Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 14(3), 181-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2016.1180802

Although, historically, there have always been travellers crossing the Balkan Peninsula, Todorova (1994 Todorova, M. (1994). The Balkans: From discovery to invention. Slavic Review, 53, 453–482. doi: 10.2307/2501301) notes that early travellers were... Read More about Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia.

Barriers and challenges facing pre-service teachers use of mobile technologies for teaching and learning (2016)
Journal Article
Burden, K., & Hopkins, P. (2016). Barriers and challenges facing pre-service teachers use of mobile technologies for teaching and learning. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 8(2), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijmbl.2016040101

This study examined the perceptions, attitudes and beliefs of pre-service teachers using the iPad for their professional learning purposes and for teaching during their school placements. The sample consisted of 117 pre-service teachers undertaking a... Read More about Barriers and challenges facing pre-service teachers use of mobile technologies for teaching and learning.

Further education colleges and leadership: Checking the ethical pulse (2016)
Journal Article
Dennis, C. A. (2016). Further education colleges and leadership: Checking the ethical pulse. London Review of Education, 14(1), 116-130. https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.14.1.11

In this paper I check the ethical pulse of Further Education at the moment of its coming of age. Using a philosophical lens, I select and review post-2010 literature, to argue that FE colleges persist in a diminished form within a learning economy. I... Read More about Further education colleges and leadership: Checking the ethical pulse.

Transnational partnerships in higher education in China: The diversity and complexity of elite strategic alliances (2016)
Journal Article
Montgomery, C. (2016). Transnational partnerships in higher education in China: The diversity and complexity of elite strategic alliances. London Review of Education, 14(1), 70-85. https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.14.1.08

Transnational partnerships between universities can illustrate the changing political, social and cultural terrain of global higher education. Drawing on secondary data analysis of government educational statistics, university webpages and a comprehe... Read More about Transnational partnerships in higher education in China: The diversity and complexity of elite strategic alliances.

Future scenarios for mobile science learning (2016)
Journal Article
Burden, K., & Kearney, M. (2016). Future scenarios for mobile science learning. Research in Science Education, 46(2), 287-308. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-016-9514-1

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. This paper adopts scenario planning as a methodological approach and tool to help science educators reconceptualise their use of mobile technologies across various different futures. These ‘futures’... Read More about Future scenarios for mobile science learning.

Learning to be a Primary Teacher: Core Knowledge and Understanding (2016)
Book
Glazzard, J. (2016). Learning to be a Primary Teacher: Core Knowledge and Understanding. Critical Publishing

Does teaching children about human rights, encourage them to practice, protect and promote the rights of others? (2016)
Journal Article
Dunhill, A. (2018). Does teaching children about human rights, encourage them to practice, protect and promote the rights of others?. Education 3-13, 46(1), 16-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2016.1165717

The purpose of the article is to demonstrate how the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Rights Respecting Schools Award makes positive contributions to children’s lives and experiences at school. Within the overall contex... Read More about Does teaching children about human rights, encourage them to practice, protect and promote the rights of others?.

Methodism and education (2016)
Book Chapter
Smith, J. T. (2016). Methodism and education. In W. Gibson, P. Forsaith, & M. Wellings (Eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to World Methodism (407-430). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315613789

John Wesley once claimed that if the Methodists were not a reading people the work of grace would die out in a generation. Thirty years ago Frank Pritchard described Wesley’s pragmatism, seeing the need for the teaching of reading to enable Bible stu... Read More about Methodism and education.

Researching and Evaluating iPad in Learning (2016)
Book
Burden, K., & Jones, S. (2016). Researching and Evaluating iPad in Learning. Apple Books

As mobile devices, like iPad, become more common in classrooms and schools there is a growing demand from school leaders and teachers to better understand the impact these devices are having on learning. This is not an academic interest but a practic... Read More about Researching and Evaluating iPad in Learning.

Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World (2016)
Book
Bottery, M. (2016). Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World. Bloomsbury Publishing

Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World argues that current crises in educational policies and practice, including the recruitment and retention of educational leaders, ultimately derive from the interactions between four key challenges w... Read More about Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World.

Changing knowledge, changing technology: implications for teacher education futures (2016)
Journal Article
Burden, K., Aubusson, P., Brindley, S., & Schuck, S. (2016). Changing knowledge, changing technology: implications for teacher education futures. Journal of education for teaching : JET, 42(1), 4-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2015.1125432

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. Recent research in teacher education futures has identified two themes that require further study: the changing nature of knowledge and the changing capabilities of technologies. This article examines the intersection of th... Read More about Changing knowledge, changing technology: implications for teacher education futures.

Critical Pedagogy and the Risks Associated with Performing Lifeworlds (2016)
Book Chapter
Hughes, G., & Cooper, C. (2017). Critical Pedagogy and the Risks Associated with Performing Lifeworlds. In Methodological Approaches (Living Reference Work) (1-21). Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-89-7_24-1

The following chapter discusses some of the key issues arising in performing research. It draws on a collaborative participatory action research project exploring the experiences of young people, who would be considered disadvantaged, in austerity En... Read More about Critical Pedagogy and the Risks Associated with Performing Lifeworlds.

Learning from differences: a strategy for teacher development in respect to student diversity (2016)
Journal Article
Messiou, K., Ainscow, M., Echeita, G., Goldrick, S., Hope, M., Paes, I., Sandoval, M., Simon, C., & Vitorino, T. (2016). Learning from differences: a strategy for teacher development in respect to student diversity. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 27(1), 45-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2014.966726

Drawing on evidence gathered as a result of collaborative action research carried out in 8 secondary schools in 3 European countries, this paper proposes an innovative strategy for helping teachers respond positively to learner diversity. The strateg... Read More about Learning from differences: a strategy for teacher development in respect to student diversity.