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Global Imaginaries: re-thinking possibilities for GCE (2019)
Journal Article
Welply, O. (2019). Global Imaginaries: re-thinking possibilities for GCE. ZEP. Zeitschrift für internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik, 42(4), 27-33. https://doi.org/10.31244/zep.2019.04.05

Global Citizenship Education (GCE) is often seen as the best response to contemporary global humanitarian, social and political challenges. Yet despite this newfound popularity, GCE remains a contentious and widely debated concept. Critiques have str... Read More about Global Imaginaries: re-thinking possibilities for GCE.

Heigh-Ho: CPS and the seven questions – Some thoughts on contemporary complex problem solving research (2019)
Journal Article
Beckmann, J. (2019). Heigh-Ho: CPS and the seven questions – Some thoughts on contemporary complex problem solving research. Journal of dynamic decision making, 5, Article 12. https://doi.org/10.11588/jddm.2019.1.69301

Research on complex problem solving (CPS) has reached a stage where certain standards have been achieved, whereas the future development is quite ambiguous. In this situation, the editors of the Journal of Dynamic Decision Making asked a number of re... Read More about Heigh-Ho: CPS and the seven questions – Some thoughts on contemporary complex problem solving research.

Let's make education fairer (2019)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., See, B., Boliver, V., & Wardle, L. (2019). Let's make education fairer. Research intelligence, Autumn 2019(140), 12-13

Using Insights from Video Games to Support Formal Education – a Theoretical Exploration (2019)
Journal Article
Tulowitzki, P., Bremm, N., Brown, C., & Krammer, G. (2019). Using Insights from Video Games to Support Formal Education – a Theoretical Exploration. Die deutsche Schule, 111(4), 405-421. https://doi.org/10.31244/dds.2019.04.04

This article draws upon findings from research on the effects of gaming, educational psychology, teacher professionalism as well as school improvement, to develop a framework for linking video game activities to formal education. Th is framework uses... Read More about Using Insights from Video Games to Support Formal Education – a Theoretical Exploration.

Inter-individual differences in intra-individual variability in personality within and across contexts (2019)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., Birney, D., Beckmann, J., Wood, R., Sojo, V., & Bowman, D. (2020). Inter-individual differences in intra-individual variability in personality within and across contexts. Journal of Research in Personality, 85, Article 103909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2019.103909

This study focuses on intra-individual variability in personality at work, and how it relates to job performance. 288 professionals completed contextualised adjective-based personality assessments in work and non-work contexts, and a non-contextualis... Read More about Inter-individual differences in intra-individual variability in personality within and across contexts.

Exploring early childhood in China: background, development and current issues (2019)
Journal Article
Qi, X. (2019). Exploring early childhood in China: background, development and current issues

China has put great efforts into developing early childhood education and care services. Since 2010 the policy priority has been to develop early childhood education services for 3–6-year-old children before school entry. Evidence of the rapid develo... Read More about Exploring early childhood in China: background, development and current issues.

‘Diaspora at home’: class and politics in the navigation of Hong Kong students in Mainland China’s Universities (2019)
Journal Article
Xu, C. L. (2023). ‘Diaspora at home’: class and politics in the navigation of Hong Kong students in Mainland China’s Universities. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 32(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2019.1700821

This paper draws on ‘diaspora at home’, a concept that encapsulates the unique dynamics between Hong Kong and mainland China, as an analytical tool to explore the cross-border experiences of 23 Hong Kong students at 11 universities in mainland China.... Read More about ‘Diaspora at home’: class and politics in the navigation of Hong Kong students in Mainland China’s Universities.

One situation doesn’t fit all: Variability and stability of state willingness to communicate in a Chinese College English classroom (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Beckmann, N., & Beckmann, J. (2022). One situation doesn’t fit all: Variability and stability of state willingness to communicate in a Chinese College English classroom. Language Teaching Research, 26(3), 504-529. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168819891330

Willingness to communicate (WTC) used to be studied as a relatively stable, trait-like predisposition; however, recently attention has shifted to the more dynamic, state-like components of WTC. This research investigates variability and stability in... Read More about One situation doesn’t fit all: Variability and stability of state willingness to communicate in a Chinese College English classroom.

The three roles of school leaders in maximizing the impact of Professional Learning Networks: a case study from England (2019)
Journal Article
Brown, C., & Flood, J. (2020). The three roles of school leaders in maximizing the impact of Professional Learning Networks: a case study from England. International Journal of Educational Research, 99, Article 101516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2019.101516

Professional Learning Networks (PLN) are considered to be an effective way to foster school improvement. To generate sustained change, PLNs require effective support from school leaders, but the actions school leaders might engage in to provide this... Read More about The three roles of school leaders in maximizing the impact of Professional Learning Networks: a case study from England.

The development of an adolescent sporting gendered habitus: Young people's interpretation of UK sports-media coverage of Rio 2016 Olympic Games (2019)
Journal Article
Metcalfe, S. N. (2019). The development of an adolescent sporting gendered habitus: Young people's interpretation of UK sports-media coverage of Rio 2016 Olympic Games. European Journal for Sport and Society, 16(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/16138171.2019.1693145

Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice explains how institutions – specifically for this paper, sports media – influence the taken-for-granted assumptions of one’s habitus. Sportswomen receive less media coverage than sportsmen, yet the influence that this ha... Read More about The development of an adolescent sporting gendered habitus: Young people's interpretation of UK sports-media coverage of Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Evaluation of the impact of Maths Counts delivered by teaching assistants on primary school pupils' attainment in maths (2019)
Journal Article
See, B. H., Morris, R., Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2019). Evaluation of the impact of Maths Counts delivered by teaching assistants on primary school pupils' attainment in maths. Educational Research and Evaluation, 25(3-4), 203-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803611.2019.1686031

This paper presents the findings of a 1-year efficacy trial of Maths Counts (MC), an intensive, individualised programme delivered by trained teaching assistants. The programme was delivered 3 times a week over 10 weeks. The sample included 291 Year... Read More about Evaluation of the impact of Maths Counts delivered by teaching assistants on primary school pupils' attainment in maths.

Humanoid robots as teachers and a proposed code of practice (2019)
Journal Article
Newton, D., & Newton, L. (2019). Humanoid robots as teachers and a proposed code of practice. Frontiers in Education, 4, Article 125. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2019.00125

This article will discriminate between kinds of robot, point to its burgeoning development and application in the home and workplace, and describe its growing use in the classroom as a teacher. It will describe its potential to support, for instance,... Read More about Humanoid robots as teachers and a proposed code of practice.