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The political and the ethical in language teaching (2022)
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Byram, M. (2022). The political and the ethical in language teaching. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 16(3), 394-402. https://doi.org/10.1558/jalpp.21088

Having known Claire Kramsch for many years I find it odd to refer to her as ‘Kramsch’, and since this is an invitation to write a ‘comment’ I would prefer to refer to ‘Claire’; but although this is a personal comment, perhaps that is too informal and... Read More about The political and the ethical in language teaching.

Freedom through constraint: Young women's embodiment, space and wellbeing during lockdown (2022)
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Harding, S., & Mazzoli Smith, L. (2022). Freedom through constraint: Young women's embodiment, space and wellbeing during lockdown. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 3, Article 100101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2022.100101

Following the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated lockdown restrictions in March 2020, young people were suddenly faced with a reduction and reconfiguration of the spaces in which they could ‘be’. This paper explores how in this loc... Read More about Freedom through constraint: Young women's embodiment, space and wellbeing during lockdown.

Disabled students doing activism: Borrowing from and trespassing neoliberal reason in English higher education (2022)
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Raaper, R., Peruzzo, F., & Westander, M. (2023). Disabled students doing activism: Borrowing from and trespassing neoliberal reason in English higher education. Power and Education, 15(2), 132–149. https://doi.org/10.1177/17577438221117772

The neoliberal rationale in English higher education promotes institutional and individual competition for economic success, often at the cost of equity and universalism. Within such context, there is a tendency to formalise student voice, for exampl... Read More about Disabled students doing activism: Borrowing from and trespassing neoliberal reason in English higher education.

Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students (2022)
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Llewellyn, A. (2024). Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students. Sport, Education and Society, 29(5), 622-635. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2022.2106203

LGBTQ+ teachers have been noted to struggle with conflicting professional and personal subjectivities within schools, which are sites of (re)production of heteronormativity. This clash relies upon positioning LGBTQ+ as an adult activity in opposition... Read More about Bursting the ‘childhood bubble’: reframing discourses of LGBTQ+ teachers and their students.

An exploratory study of university teachers’ conceptions and articulation of care amidst online teaching (2022)
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Tang, A. L., Walker-Gleaves, C., & Rattray, J. (2023). An exploratory study of university teachers’ conceptions and articulation of care amidst online teaching. Pastoral Care in Education, 41(4), 388-408. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2022.2109192

This exploratory study aimed to examine university teachers’ conceptions and articulation of care amidst online teaching. The pandemic-initiated sudden changes to online platform-based teaching and consequently caused many teachers to critically refl... Read More about An exploratory study of university teachers’ conceptions and articulation of care amidst online teaching.

Intelligence IS Cognitive Flexibility: Why Multilevel Models of Within-Individual Processes Are Needed to Realise This (2022)
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Birney, D. P., & Beckmann, J. F. (2022). Intelligence IS Cognitive Flexibility: Why Multilevel Models of Within-Individual Processes Are Needed to Realise This. Journal of Intelligence, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10030049

Despite substantial evidence for the link between an individual’s intelligence and successful life outcomes, questions about what defines intelligence have remained the focus of heated dispute. The most common approach to understanding intelligence h... Read More about Intelligence IS Cognitive Flexibility: Why Multilevel Models of Within-Individual Processes Are Needed to Realise This.

From classroom teacher to teacher educator: Critical insights and experiences of beginning teacher educators from Jamaica, England and United Arab Emirates (2022)
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Roofe, C., Maude, K., & Sunder, S. G. (2023). From classroom teacher to teacher educator: Critical insights and experiences of beginning teacher educators from Jamaica, England and United Arab Emirates. Power and Education, 15(1), 23-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/17577438221112536

This exploratory study sought to investigate how beginning teacher educators (BTEs hereafter) constantly examine and reframe their identities when transitioning from being a classroom teacher to being a teacher educator of pre-service teachers. Throu... Read More about From classroom teacher to teacher educator: Critical insights and experiences of beginning teacher educators from Jamaica, England and United Arab Emirates.

Does digital, multimedia information increase recruitment and retention in a children’s wrist fracture treatment trial, and what do people think of it? A randomised controlled Study Within A Trial (SWAT) (2022)
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Moe-Byrne, T., Knapp, P., Perry, D., Achten, J., Spoors, L., Appelbe, D., …Higgins, S. (2022). Does digital, multimedia information increase recruitment and retention in a children’s wrist fracture treatment trial, and what do people think of it? A randomised controlled Study Within A Trial (SWAT). BMJ Open, 12(7), Article e057508. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057508

Objectives To evaluate digital, multimedia information (MMI) for its effects on trial recruitment, retention, decisions about participation and acceptability by patients, compared with printed information. Design Study Within A Trial using random clu... Read More about Does digital, multimedia information increase recruitment and retention in a children’s wrist fracture treatment trial, and what do people think of it? A randomised controlled Study Within A Trial (SWAT).

EAP teacher observation: Developing criteria and identifying the forms of pedagogic practice they afford (2022)
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Kirk, S., & King, J. (2022). EAP teacher observation: Developing criteria and identifying the forms of pedagogic practice they afford. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2022.101139

Here we critically revisit a scheme for EAP teacher observation and development, created in response to particular challenges in a UK pre-sessional context. The scheme was closely informed by the BALEAP Competency Framework for Teachers of EAP (CFTEA... Read More about EAP teacher observation: Developing criteria and identifying the forms of pedagogic practice they afford.

Improving mathematical reasoning – the professional development challenge (2022)
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Wang, Y., & Brown, C. (2022). Improving mathematical reasoning – the professional development challenge. Professional development today, 22(4),

Yuqian Wang and Chris Brown highlight how crucial it is for schools to make explicit plans to improve mathematical reasoning, even in lower primary settings. Their research outlines the professional development that can be employed in support.

COVID-19: A Neoliberal Nirvana? (2022)
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Watermeyer, R., Raaper, R., & Borras Batalla, M. (2022). COVID-19: A Neoliberal Nirvana?. Critical Criminology, 30(3), 509-526. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-022-09652-x

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the operation of universities around the world. A transition to online platforms and remote forms of working as a consequence of national lockdown measures and campus closures has produced new labour chal... Read More about COVID-19: A Neoliberal Nirvana?.

Is household income a reliable measure when assessing educational outcomes? A Jigsaw of two datasets (Next Steps and National Pupil Database) for understanding indicators of disadvantage (2022)
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Siddiqui, N., & Gorard, S. (2023). Is household income a reliable measure when assessing educational outcomes? A Jigsaw of two datasets (Next Steps and National Pupil Database) for understanding indicators of disadvantage. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 46(2), 118-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727x.2022.2094359

Robust indicators are important for identifying young people at risk of not meeting expected achievement goals in education, and for ensuring that they are rightly receiving relevant state-funded assistance. This paper compares the quality and comple... Read More about Is household income a reliable measure when assessing educational outcomes? A Jigsaw of two datasets (Next Steps and National Pupil Database) for understanding indicators of disadvantage.

Situation contingent negative emotions and performance: The moderating role of trait neuroticism (2022)
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Wood, R., Beckmann, N., Ren, S., & Guan, B. (2022). Situation contingent negative emotions and performance: The moderating role of trait neuroticism. Personality and Individual Differences, 197, Article 111788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111788

Negative emotions are related to poor performance in between-person analyses but facilitate performance in within-person analyses, under certain conditions. We examine the effect of situation contingent negative emotions (SCE) on performance, and tra... Read More about Situation contingent negative emotions and performance: The moderating role of trait neuroticism.

Subjective equivalence scales in Eastern versus Western European countries (2022)
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Mysíková, M., Želinský, T., Garner, T. I., & Fialová, K. (2022). Subjective equivalence scales in Eastern versus Western European countries. Contemporary Economic Policy, 40(4), 659-676. https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12579

We show that economies of scale estimated individually for each EU country differ from the officially adopted OECD-modified scale; the differences across the countries further confirm the prevailing East-West disparity. Using the minimum income quest... Read More about Subjective equivalence scales in Eastern versus Western European countries.

The Lifecycle of a Clinical Cadaver: A Practice-Based Ethnography (2022)
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MacLeod, A., Luong, V., Cameron, P., Kovacs, G., Fredeen, M., Patrick, L., …Tummons, J. (2022). The Lifecycle of a Clinical Cadaver: A Practice-Based Ethnography. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 34(5), 556-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/10401334.2022.2092111

PhenomenonCadavers have long played an important and complex role in medical education. While research on cadaver-based simulation has largely focused on exploring student attitudes and reactions or measuring improvements in procedural performance, t... Read More about The Lifecycle of a Clinical Cadaver: A Practice-Based Ethnography.

Research informed educational practice: how to help educators engage with research for the common good (Practica educativa informada por la investigacion: Cómo ayudar a los educadores comprometerse con la investigacion para el bien comun) (2022)
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Brown, C., & Ion, G. (2022). Research informed educational practice: how to help educators engage with research for the common good (Practica educativa informada por la investigacion: Cómo ayudar a los educadores comprometerse con la investigacion para el bien comun). Revista de educación (Madrid. Internet), 397(10), 239-260. https://doi.org/10.4438/1988-592x-re-2022-397-546

This paper examines research informed educational practice (RIEP) and how RIEP can become an integral part of how education systems operate. First RIEP is considered within the broader context of ‘research for the common good’. The paper then discuss... Read More about Research informed educational practice: how to help educators engage with research for the common good (Practica educativa informada por la investigacion: Cómo ayudar a los educadores comprometerse con la investigacion para el bien comun).

Facilitating the ideas-informed society: a systematic review (2022)
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Brown, C., Luzmore, R., & Groß Ophoff, J. (2022). Facilitating the ideas-informed society: a systematic review. Emerald Open Research, 4, Article 25. https://doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.14729.1

Background: The concept of the ideas-informed society represents a desired situation in which: 1) citizens see value in staying up to date, and 2) citizens regularly keep themselves up to date by actively engaging with new ideas, developments and cla... Read More about Facilitating the ideas-informed society: a systematic review.

Engaging children, young people, parents and health professionals in interviews: Using an interactive ranking exercise within the co-design of multimedia websites (2022)
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Martin-Kerry, J., Higgins, S., Knapp, P., Liabo, K., & Young, B. (2024). Engaging children, young people, parents and health professionals in interviews: Using an interactive ranking exercise within the co-design of multimedia websites. Journal of Child Health Care, 28(1), 181-195. https://doi.org/10.1177/13674935221109684

When planning paediatric trials, it is important to consider how best to communicate with children and young people (CYP) so they understand what they are taking part in. It is also important to consider what information they need. Involving CYP as r... Read More about Engaging children, young people, parents and health professionals in interviews: Using an interactive ranking exercise within the co-design of multimedia websites.

Children and Society Policy Review—A review of government consultation processes when engaging with children and young people about the statutory guidance for Relationships and Sex Education in schools in England (2022)
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Setty, E., & Dobson, E. (2023). Children and Society Policy Review—A review of government consultation processes when engaging with children and young people about the statutory guidance for Relationships and Sex Education in schools in England. Children & Society, 37(5), 1646-1657. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12603

This paper examines the participation of children and young people within government consultation pro-cesses. It considers the recent Department for Education consultation on its statutory guidance for schools for Relationships and Sex Education in E... Read More about Children and Society Policy Review—A review of government consultation processes when engaging with children and young people about the statutory guidance for Relationships and Sex Education in schools in England.