Outputs (168)

How can school leaders establish evidence informed schools: an analysis of the effectiveness of potential school policy levers (2016)
Journal Article
Brown, C., & Zhang, D. (2016). How can school leaders establish evidence informed schools: an analysis of the effectiveness of potential school policy levers. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 45(3), 382-401. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143215617946

This article has three aims: first, it examines the notion of evidence-informed practice and its benefits, as well as recent educational policy designed to promote schools’ use of evidence. Second, it examines four distinct but overlapping and interd... Read More about How can school leaders establish evidence informed schools: an analysis of the effectiveness of potential school policy levers.

Learners and organizations: competing patterns of risk, trust, and responsibility. (2016)
Book Chapter
Land, R. (2016). Learners and organizations: competing patterns of risk, trust, and responsibility. In L. Leišytė, & U. Wilkesmann (Eds.), Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education: Teaching, learning, and identities (151-168). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315693729

This chapter attempts to addresses one of the central concerns of this volume, namely how discernible trends in teaching and learning might change organizational structures and behaviours. The principal research question of this chapter is to conside... Read More about Learners and organizations: competing patterns of risk, trust, and responsibility..

Student mobility and internationalisation in higher education: perspectives from practitioners (2016)
Journal Article
Castro, P., Woodin, J., Lundgren, U., & Byram, M. (2016). Student mobility and internationalisation in higher education: perspectives from practitioners. Language and Intercultural Communication, 16(3), 418-436. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2016.1168052

Internationalisation is high on the agenda of higher education institutions across the world. Previous research on national and local policies surrounding this phenomenon has identified different discourses of internationalisation which may have an e... Read More about Student mobility and internationalisation in higher education: perspectives from practitioners.

Mainland Chinese students at an elite Hong Kong university: habitus–field disjuncture in a transborder context (2016)
Journal Article
Xu, C. L. (2017). Mainland Chinese students at an elite Hong Kong university: habitus–field disjuncture in a transborder context. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38(5), 610-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2016.1158642

Drawing on in-depth interview data from 31 mainland Chinese (MLC) students in a Hong Kong university, this article conceptualises MLC and Hong Kong higher education as two dissonant but interrelated subfields of the Chinese higher education field. Th... Read More about Mainland Chinese students at an elite Hong Kong university: habitus–field disjuncture in a transborder context.

Progress in the inductive strategy-use of children from different ethnic backgrounds: a study employing dynamic testing (2016)
Journal Article
Resing, W., Touw, K., Veerbeek, J., & Elliott, J. (2017). Progress in the inductive strategy-use of children from different ethnic backgrounds: a study employing dynamic testing. Educational Psychology, 37(2), 173-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2016.1164300

This study investigated potential differences in inductive behavioural and verbal strategy-use between children (aged 6–8 years) from indigenous and non-indigenous backgrounds. This was effected by the use of an electronic device that could present a... Read More about Progress in the inductive strategy-use of children from different ethnic backgrounds: a study employing dynamic testing.

Side Effects of School Inspection; Motivations and Contexts for Strategic Responses (2016)
Book Chapter
Ehren, M., Jones, K., & Perryman, J. (2016). Side Effects of School Inspection; Motivations and Contexts for Strategic Responses. In M. Ehren (Ed.), Methods and modalities of effective school inspections (87-109). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31003-9_5

This chapter introduces three categories of unintended consequences from school inspections: (1) intended strategic behaviour where schools manipulate the inspection assessment through window dressing, misrepresentation or gaming, (2) unintended stra... Read More about Side Effects of School Inspection; Motivations and Contexts for Strategic Responses.

Context and Implications Document for: Impact of arts education on children's learning and wider outcomes (2016)
Journal Article
See, B., & Kokotsaki, D. (2016). Context and Implications Document for: Impact of arts education on children's learning and wider outcomes. Review of Education, 4(3), 263-265. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3074

This guide accompanies the following article: Beng Huat See and Dimitra Kokotsaki, Impact of arts education on children's learning and wider outcomes, Review of Education, DOI: 10.1002/rev3.3070

Impact of arts education on children’s learning and wider outcomes (2016)
Journal Article
See, B., & Kokotsaki, D. (2016). Impact of arts education on children’s learning and wider outcomes. Review of Education, 4(3), 234-262. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3070

Almost every educational system in the world regards numeracy and literacy as more important than the arts. In the UK arts interest groups and politicians have, for years, asked for arts education to be accorded the same priority arguing that arts co... Read More about Impact of arts education on children’s learning and wider outcomes.

Discourse Analysis of Assessment Policies in Higher Education: a Foucauldian Approach (2016)
Other
Raaper, R. (2016). Discourse Analysis of Assessment Policies in Higher Education: a Foucauldian Approach

I started my PhD studies in 2012 with a strong interest in student assessment in higher education. By exploring the scholarly field of assessment studies, however, I soon realized that assessment has been most often explored in relation to constructi... Read More about Discourse Analysis of Assessment Policies in Higher Education: a Foucauldian Approach.

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 web pages, and a compr... Read More about Transnational partnerships in Higher Education in China: the diversity and complexity of elite strategic alliances.