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Changing professional discourses in teacher education policy back towards a training paradigm : a comparative study (2013)
Journal Article
Beach, D., & Bagley, C. (2013). Changing professional discourses in teacher education policy back towards a training paradigm : a comparative study. European Journal of Teacher Education, 36(4), 379-392. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2013.815162

Modern definitions of professions connect professional knowledge to scientific studies and higher education. In the present article we examine the changing nature of this relationship in initial teacher education in two European countries: Sweden and... Read More about Changing professional discourses in teacher education policy back towards a training paradigm : a comparative study.

'The fieldworker not in the head's office': an empirical exploration of the role of an English rural primary school within its village (2013)
Journal Article
Hillyard, S., & Bagley, C. (2013). 'The fieldworker not in the head's office': an empirical exploration of the role of an English rural primary school within its village. Social and Cultural Geography, 14(4), 410-427. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2013.779743

This paper presents the findings of a project exploring the role of an English primary school inside its rural village. The fieldwork discovered that the school had lacked a full-time head teacher for a number of years and the paper explicates three... Read More about 'The fieldworker not in the head's office': an empirical exploration of the role of an English rural primary school within its village.

Rural schools, social capital and the Big Society: a theoretical and empirical exposition (2013)
Journal Article
Bagley, C., & Hillyard, S. (2014). Rural schools, social capital and the Big Society: a theoretical and empirical exposition. British Educational Research Journal, 40(1), 63-67. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3026

The paper commences with a theoretical exposition of the current UK government's policy commitment to the idealised notion of the Big Society and the social capital currency underpinning its formation. The paper positions this debate in relation to t... Read More about Rural schools, social capital and the Big Society: a theoretical and empirical exposition.

Islamic Education and Multiculturalism: Engaging with the Canadian Experience (2013)
Journal Article
Ali, F., & Bagley, C. (2013). Islamic Education and Multiculturalism: Engaging with the Canadian Experience. Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 8(2), 19-31

Canada has a long history of immigration by diverse ethnic minority groups arriving in the hope of establishing economically successful – yet socially and culturally distinct – communities based on particular values and beliefs not necessarily shared... Read More about Islamic Education and Multiculturalism: Engaging with the Canadian Experience.