All Outputs (20)

What does learning look like? Using cartoon story boards to investigate student perceptions (from 4 to 15) of learning something new (2017)
Book Chapter

The Abductive Leap: eliding visual and participatory in research design (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter seeks to problematise some of our assumptions about visual methods and their role in relation to participatory design and ethics in educational research. We make use of abductive reasoning (Peirce, 1878; 1903) to explore the ways in whic... Read More about The Abductive Leap: eliding visual and participatory in research design.

Mind the Gap: an exploratory investigation of a family learning initiative to develop metacognitive awareness (2015)
Journal Article

Mind the Gap is a family learning project aiming to facilitate intergenerational engagement with learning in schools through the vehicle of a stop-motion animation project.1 Implicit in the animation process is reflective and strategic thinking that... Read More about Mind the Gap: an exploratory investigation of a family learning initiative to develop metacognitive awareness.

A systematic review of methods to assess metacognition in school‐aged children. Paper presented at symposium entitled Metacognition, executive functioning and self‐regulation: measurement tools from infancy to adolescence (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Stories of practitioner enquiry: using narrative interviews to explore teachers’ perspectives of learning to learn (2014)
Journal Article

The Campaign for Learning’s Learning to Learn Phase 4 was a research project in which teachers undertook practitioner enquiry to explore innovative pedagogies under the umbrella term of learning to learn. In 2008, to gain greater understanding of wha... Read More about Stories of practitioner enquiry: using narrative interviews to explore teachers’ perspectives of learning to learn.

'That's not quite the way we see it': the epistemological challenge of visual data (2013)
Journal Article

In research textbooks, and much of the research practice, they describe, qualitative processes and interpretivist epistemologies tend to dominate visual methodology. This article challenges the assumptions behind this dominance. Using exemplification... Read More about 'That's not quite the way we see it': the epistemological challenge of visual data.

Raising the profile of innovative teaching in Higher Education? Reflections on the EquATE project (2013)
Journal Article

This paper presents a methodology developed by members of the Research Centre for Learning and Teaching (RCfLAT) to collaborate with university teaching colleagues to produce theoretically- and pedagogically-based case studies of innovations in teach... Read More about Raising the profile of innovative teaching in Higher Education? Reflections on the EquATE project.

Comparing Analysis Frames for Visual Data Sets: Using Pupil Views Templates to explore perspectives of learning (2013)
Journal Article

A key challenge of visual methodology is how to combine large-scale qualitative data sets with epistemologically acceptable and rigorous analysis techniques. The authors argue that a pragmatic approach drawing on ideas from mixed methods is helpful t... Read More about Comparing Analysis Frames for Visual Data Sets: Using Pupil Views Templates to explore perspectives of learning.

"It wasn't too easy, which is good if you want to learn": An exploration of pupil participation and Learning to Learn. (2012)
Journal Article

Changed learning through changed space: When can a participatory approach to the learning environment challenge preconceptions and alter practice? (2012)
Journal Article

School premises make a difference to learning, but it is important to understand the relationship between setting and educational activities. Physical space has been found to entrench practice, making it harder to reflect and make changes. Yet change... Read More about Changed learning through changed space: When can a participatory approach to the learning environment challenge preconceptions and alter practice?.

Learning to Learn with Parents: lessons from two research projects (2010)
Book Chapter

Learning to learn in schools phase 4 and Learning to learn in further education. (2010)
Report

Learning to Learn in Schools Phase 4 Year One Report. (2009)
Report

Catalytic tools: understanding the interaction of enquiry and feedback in teachers' learning. (2009)
Journal Article

Learning to Learn for Life 3: Research and Practical Examples for Secondary Schools. (2009)
Book

Teacher enquiry as a tool for professional development: investigating pupils' effective talk while learning. (2009)
Journal Article

Understanding Metacognition through the use of Pupil Views Templates: Pupil Views of Learning to Learn. (2008)
Journal Article

Developing Digital Portfolios: investigating how digital portfolios can facilitate pupil talk about learning. (2006)
Journal Article

The Digital Portfolio Project at Newcastle University aimed over one year (2002/2003) to support teachers in producing, storing and accessing assessment portfolios of learner's work using information and communications technology (ICT). This paper dr... Read More about Developing Digital Portfolios: investigating how digital portfolios can facilitate pupil talk about learning..

Facilitating and supporting talk with pupils about metacognition: a research and learning tool. (2006)
Journal Article

'The visual helps me understand the complicated things': pupil views of teaching and learning with interactive whiteboards (2005)
Journal Article

This study is one element of a government-sponsored evaluation into the introduction of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) to Years 5 and 6 in English primary schools. This element of the research aimed to gather information regarding pupil views of IWBs... Read More about 'The visual helps me understand the complicated things': pupil views of teaching and learning with interactive whiteboards.