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Metalearning capacity and threshold concept engagement. (2010)
Journal Article
Ward, S., & Meyer, J. (2010). Metalearning capacity and threshold concept engagement. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 47(4), 369-378. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2010.518429

This study aims to further our understanding of metalearning activity through the analysis of qualitative data gathered from 370 first-year microeconomics students in three UK universities. The students were asked to produce undirected reflective ess... Read More about Metalearning capacity and threshold concept engagement..

Enacting Metalearning: Using Performance Based Research in conjunction with Meyer's Reflections on Learning Inventory to raise HND/FD students' awareness of the self as learner in the context of level six (final year) undergraduate study (2010)
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Connolly, R., & Ward, S. (2011). Enacting Metalearning: Using Performance Based Research in conjunction with Meyer's Reflections on Learning Inventory to raise HND/FD students' awareness of the self as learner in the context of level six (final year) undergraduate study. Palatine (Performing Arts Learning and Teaching Innovation Network)

The concept of metalearning, as defined by Biggs (1985), encapsulates two complementary features of deep level, self-regulated learning capacity: 1) an awareness of self as learner in some specified context and 2) control over self as learner in that... Read More about Enacting Metalearning: Using Performance Based Research in conjunction with Meyer's Reflections on Learning Inventory to raise HND/FD students' awareness of the self as learner in the context of level six (final year) undergraduate study.

Threshold concepts and metalearning capacity (2009)
Journal Article
Meyer, J., Ward, S., & Latreille, P. (2009). Threshold concepts and metalearning capacity. International Review of Economics Education, 8(1), 132-154

This study operationalises the empowering concept of metalearning in the specific context of engagement with a threshold concept.An experience of metalearning was constituted in two parts. First students’ awareness of themselves as learners is prompt... Read More about Threshold concepts and metalearning capacity.

Let them eat Shakespeare: prescribed authors and the National Curriculum (2008)
Journal Article
Ward, S., & Connolly, R. (2008). Let them eat Shakespeare: prescribed authors and the National Curriculum. The Curriculum Journal, 19(4), 293-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585170802509880

In this article, we examine the debate that surrounds prescribed reading lists in the English National Curriculum. In particular, we attempt to locate the role which ideas about heritage and social and moral values have played in constructing this de... Read More about Let them eat Shakespeare: prescribed authors and the National Curriculum.