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MorpethNewsTV interview with Dr Karen Lowing: Time Schools Spoke up for Northumbrian (2019)
Digital Artefact
(2019). MorpethNewsTV interview with Dr Karen Lowing: Time Schools Spoke up for Northumbrian. [YouTube]

Language enthusiasts striving to preserve and promote Northumbrian face an uphill struggle in schools.

That was one of the messages spelled out at Morpeth today at an event which bangs the drum for the County’s native tongue.

The Roland Bibby M... Read More about MorpethNewsTV interview with Dr Karen Lowing: Time Schools Spoke up for Northumbrian.

The Education Researcher is Dead; Long Live the Education Researcher! Closure from Crisis in Education Research (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lowing, K., & Govender, N. (2019, September). The Education Researcher is Dead; Long Live the Education Researcher! Closure from Crisis in Education Research. Paper presented at ECER 2019, Hamburg

This paper reconsiders seemingly obsolete paradigm wars in education research, as a means to explain the continuing peripheralization of ‘context’ driven (Koutsouris and Norwich, 2018) qualitative and teacher-centred models of enquiry. Quietly enduri... Read More about The Education Researcher is Dead; Long Live the Education Researcher! Closure from Crisis in Education Research.

Models of SEND: the impact of political and economic influences on policy and provision (2019)
Journal Article
Rolfe, S. (2020). Models of SEND: the impact of political and economic influences on policy and provision. British Journal of Special Education, 46(4), 423-444. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8578.12284

The content and direction of policy can be impacted upon by broader political and economic influences that are of central concern to the government in office. With regard to education, the concepts of inclusion and SEND are at the forefront of... Read More about Models of SEND: the impact of political and economic influences on policy and provision.

Developing pre-service teacher knowledge using online forums: supporting confident and competent teaching practices (2019)
Journal Article
Dockerty, K. (2019). Developing pre-service teacher knowledge using online forums: supporting confident and competent teaching practices. Journal of education for teaching : JET, 45(4), 402-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2019.1639260

This small study examines how one group (n = 59) of first-year undergraduate students developed their knowledge through co-construction using an online forum as a platform as part of a three-year Initial Teacher Training (ITT) programme. Professional... Read More about Developing pre-service teacher knowledge using online forums: supporting confident and competent teaching practices.

A multinational perspective on aspects of schooling to which Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) could contribute. (2019)
Journal Article
Minott, M. (2019). A multinational perspective on aspects of schooling to which Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) could contribute. Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 11(1), 95-105

The purpose of this grounded approach study is to provide answers to the research question ‘what aspect(s) of schooling could newly qualified teachers contribute to, and why?’ Via emails, 22 newly qualified teachers (NQTs) from 10 countries provided... Read More about A multinational perspective on aspects of schooling to which Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) could contribute..

Reflective teaching, inclusive teaching and the teacher’s tasks in the inclusive classroom: a literary investigation (2019)
Journal Article
Minott, M. (2019). Reflective teaching, inclusive teaching and the teacher’s tasks in the inclusive classroom: a literary investigation. British Journal of Special Education, 46(2), 226-238. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8578.12260

This article has three aims: to continue the process of giving credence to reflective teaching, which is integral to effective teaching and learning; to make explicit the connections between reflective teaching and inclusive teaching; and to identify... Read More about Reflective teaching, inclusive teaching and the teacher’s tasks in the inclusive classroom: a literary investigation.

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

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

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

Regulation of the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex composition by the metabolic properties of muscle fibres (2019)
Journal Article
Omairi, S., Hau, K. L., Collins-Hooper, H., Scott, C., Vaiyapuri, S., Torelli, S., Montanaro, F., Matsakas, A., & Patel, K. (2019). Regulation of the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex composition by the metabolic properties of muscle fibres. Scientific reports, 9(1), Article 2770. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39532-4

The dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC) links the muscle cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix and is responsible for force transduction and protects the muscle fibres from contraction induced damage. Mutations in components of the DGC are respo... Read More about Regulation of the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex composition by the metabolic properties of muscle fibres.

An Understanding of the Experience of switching from Secondary to Primary school Teaching (2018)
Journal Article
Minott, M. (2018). An Understanding of the Experience of switching from Secondary to Primary school Teaching. Teacher education & practice : the journal of the Texas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 31(3), 435-447

The aim of this study was to gain an understanding of the experience of teachers who made the switch from secondary to primary school teaching. Two teachers who had made the switch participated in an in-depth interview. The data analysis process was... Read More about An Understanding of the Experience of switching from Secondary to Primary school Teaching.

Observer, observed and observations: Initial Teacher Education English tutors’ feedback on lessons taught by student teachers of English (2018)
Journal Article
Stevens, D., & Lowing, K. (2018). Observer, observed and observations: Initial Teacher Education English tutors’ feedback on lessons taught by student teachers of English. English in Education, 42(2), 182-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-8845.2008.00015.x

We reflect here on research into the process of giving and receiving lesson-observational feedback for student teachers. Key questions and areas are: How effective is post-lesson observation feedback in developing student teachers’ understanding of t... Read More about Observer, observed and observations: Initial Teacher Education English tutors’ feedback on lessons taught by student teachers of English.

Deep learning : enriching teacher training through mobile technology and international collaboration (2018)
Journal Article
Naylor, A., & Gibbs, J. (2018). Deep learning : enriching teacher training through mobile technology and international collaboration. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 10(1), 62-77. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJMBL.2018010105

This article presents results from an international collaboration between college students and pre-service teachers in Norway and the UK. This research is part of a large, international project exploring and developing the interrelationship between m... Read More about Deep learning : enriching teacher training through mobile technology and international collaboration.

Beginning teachers’ perceptions of mentors and access to communities of practice (2017)
Journal Article
Shields, S., & Murray, M. (2017). Beginning teachers’ perceptions of mentors and access to communities of practice. International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 6(4), 317-331. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijmce-01-2017-0004

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore beginning teachers’ perceptions of the role of the mentor in the early stages of developing a professional identity. The beginning teachers in our study are defined as having been awarded qualified te... Read More about Beginning teachers’ perceptions of mentors and access to communities of practice.