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Increasing understanding of the aspirations and expectations of Roma students (2021)
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Zelinsky, T., Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2021). Increasing understanding of the aspirations and expectations of Roma students. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42(4), 588-606. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2021.1872366

Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe, and despite the efforts of national governments and international institutions in many countries, the majority still live below the poverty line. It is estimated that only approximately 20 per cent of a... Read More about Increasing understanding of the aspirations and expectations of Roma students.

Trends in Subjective Income Poverty Rates in the European Union (2021)
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Želinský, T., Mysíková, M., & Garner, T. I. (2022). Trends in Subjective Income Poverty Rates in the European Union. European Journal of Development Research, 34(5), 2493-2516. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-021-00457-2

When developing anti-poverty policies, policymakers need accurate data on the prevalence of poverty. In this paper, we focus on subjective poverty, a concept which has been largely neglected in the literature, though it remains a conceptually appeali... Read More about Trends in Subjective Income Poverty Rates in the European Union.

Arts, language and intercultural education (2021)
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Fleming, M. (2023). Arts, language and intercultural education. Language Teaching Research, 27(2), 261-275. https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688211044244

This article is structured around four questions related to the arts, language and intercultural education. Are the claims for the value of the arts over-stated? Does the use of the arts in the service of non-art outcomes run the risk of distorting t... Read More about Arts, language and intercultural education.

Of Young People and Internet Cafés (2021)
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Xiao, Z., & Higgins, S. (2021). Of Young People and Internet Cafés. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 603992. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.603992

This study examines how adolescent experience in Internet cafés (known as wangba in Chinese) relates to academic attainment in urban, rural, and Tibetan schools of China. By documenting the frustrations teenagers express in their negotiations with ad... Read More about Of Young People and Internet Cafés.

Student support as social network: Exploring non-traditional student experiences of academic and wellbeing support during the Covid-19 pandemic (2021)
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Raaper, R., Brown, C., & Llewellyn, A. (2022). Student support as social network: Exploring non-traditional student experiences of academic and wellbeing support during the Covid-19 pandemic. Educational Review, 74(3), 402-421. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1965960

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a global crisis in higher education, affecting all aspects of university work and practices. This article focuses on student experiences in particular by problematising academic and wellbeing support available to non-... Read More about Student support as social network: Exploring non-traditional student experiences of academic and wellbeing support during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Creative Sciences (2021)
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Rees, S., & Newton, D. (2021). The Creative Sciences. School science review, 382, 57-62

Creativity lies at the heart of science teaching and learning. However, stereotypically, creativity is more widely associated with the arts than the sciences. In this article, we challenge this perception and demonstrate how to teach for and with cre... Read More about The Creative Sciences.

Reconceptualising fair access to highly academically selective universities, Higher Education (2021)
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Boliver, V., Banerjee, P., Gorard, S., & Powell, M. (2022). Reconceptualising fair access to highly academically selective universities, Higher Education. Higher Education, 84(1), 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-021-00755-y

The higher education regulators for England have set challenging new widening access targets requiring universities to rethink “ how merit is judged in admissions” (OfS 2018: 8). Universities are being encouraged to move away from the traditional mer... Read More about Reconceptualising fair access to highly academically selective universities, Higher Education.

School-Aged Students’ Sustainable Online Learning Engagement during COVID-19: Community of Inquiry in a Chinese Secondary Education Context (2021)
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Li, F., Jin, T., Edirisingha, P., & Zhang, X. (2021). School-Aged Students’ Sustainable Online Learning Engagement during COVID-19: Community of Inquiry in a Chinese Secondary Education Context. Sustainability, 13(18), Article 10147. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131810147

As the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread all over the world, many educational institutions have shifted to a full-time online teaching mode. Although online teaching has been widely explored, the unprecedented initiatives of mass-scale full-time onli... Read More about School-Aged Students’ Sustainable Online Learning Engagement during COVID-19: Community of Inquiry in a Chinese Secondary Education Context.

Formative assessment and feedback for learning in higher education: A systematic review (2021)
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Morris, R., Perry, T., & Wardle, L. (2021). Formative assessment and feedback for learning in higher education: A systematic review. Review of Education, 9(3), Article e3292. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3292

Feedback is an integral part of education and there is a substantial body of trials exploring and confirming its effect on learning. This evidence base comes mostly from studies of compulsory school age children; there is very little evidence to supp... Read More about Formative assessment and feedback for learning in higher education: A systematic review.

Delivering music education training for non-specialist teachers through effective partnership: a Kodály-inspired intervention to improve young children’s development outcomes (2021)
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Ibbotson, L., & See, B. (2021). Delivering music education training for non-specialist teachers through effective partnership: a Kodály-inspired intervention to improve young children’s development outcomes. Education Sciences, 11(8), Article 433. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11080433

A priority area identified by the Department of Education (England) and the Economic Social and Research Council is the development of teachers, especially in primary music education where the limited opportunities for training offered by teacher tra... Read More about Delivering music education training for non-specialist teachers through effective partnership: a Kodály-inspired intervention to improve young children’s development outcomes.

On The Educational Mode of Existence: Latour, Meta-Ethnography, and the Social Institution of Education (2021)
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Tummons, J. (2021). On The Educational Mode of Existence: Latour, Meta-Ethnography, and the Social Institution of Education. Social Anthropology, 29(3), 570-585. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13087

This article constitutes an argument for both the use and expansion of the philosophical anthropology of Bruno Latour, as established in his recent work An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (AIME). Drawing on ethnographies of education as a methodology... Read More about On The Educational Mode of Existence: Latour, Meta-Ethnography, and the Social Institution of Education.

Music Achievements of Being an English Chorister (2021)
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Dong, L., & Kokotsaki, D. (2021). Music Achievements of Being an English Chorister. British Journal of Music Education, 38(3), 249-263. https://doi.org/10.1017/s026505172100019x

This study aims to highlight the uniqueness of the English choristers’ education, what special musical skills it passes on to youngsters, and how these may help them in later life. It investigates the perceptions of 30 ex-choristers who attended a br... Read More about Music Achievements of Being an English Chorister.

Teacher Mobility in Punjab, Pakistan: Stayers and Movers within the Public and Private Schools (2021)
Journal Article
Siddiqui, N., & Shaukat, S. (2021). Teacher Mobility in Punjab, Pakistan: Stayers and Movers within the Public and Private Schools. Education Sciences, 11(7), Article 358. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11070358

Understanding the determinants of teacher mobility is important in order to implement effective policies for the recruitment, retention, and fair allocation of teachers. The teacher transfer policy implemented in Punjab, Pakistan, is intended to addr... Read More about Teacher Mobility in Punjab, Pakistan: Stayers and Movers within the Public and Private Schools.

Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of the Impact of Educational Interventions on Pupils Eligible for Free School Meals (2021)
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Ashraf, B., Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2021). Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of the Impact of Educational Interventions on Pupils Eligible for Free School Meals. British Educational Research Journal, 47(6), 1675-1699. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3749

Meta-analysis is the synthesis of findings from research projects, which enables an estimate of the average or pooled effect across various studies. This study presents findings from the intention to treat analysis for a series of educational evaluat... Read More about Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of the Impact of Educational Interventions on Pupils Eligible for Free School Meals.

Evaluating the use of multimedia information when recruiting adolescents to orthodontics research: a randomised controlled trial (2021)
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Knapp, P., Mandall, N., Hulse, W., Roche, J., Moe-Byrne, T., Martin-Kerry, J., …Higgins, S. (2021). Evaluating the use of multimedia information when recruiting adolescents to orthodontics research: a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Orthodontics, 48(4), 343-351. https://doi.org/10.1177/14653125211024250

Objective: The study aim was to compare two methods of providing information about the BAMP (Bone Anchored Maxillary Protraction) trial: standard printed information and multimedia websites, for their quality and ease of understanding, and impact on... Read More about Evaluating the use of multimedia information when recruiting adolescents to orthodontics research: a randomised controlled trial.

“A Space Where Queer Is Normalized”: The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW (2021)
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Llewellyn, A. (2022). “A Space Where Queer Is Normalized”: The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW. Journal of Homosexuality, 69(13), 2348-2369. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2021.1940012

In the current society, the online and fictional worlds are important spaces for both the identity construction and wellbeing of LGBTQ people. Connecting these spaces are fandoms (and fanfictions), which can operate as places of resistance for margin... Read More about “A Space Where Queer Is Normalized”: The Online World and Fanfictions as Heterotopias for WLW.

Covid and data science: Understanding R0 could change your life (2021)
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Ridgway, J. (2021). Covid and data science: Understanding R0 could change your life. Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Statistics and Data Science Teaching, 43(S1), S84-S92. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12273

The Covid epidemic has provided an excellent example of the need to call on a wide variety of statistical tools to address a global problem, and can give students insights into some of the dimensions of data science. Here, we describe some of the cha... Read More about Covid and data science: Understanding R0 could change your life.

“It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine…Because Everything Is Fucked Anyway”: Utilizing Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography to Navigate Global Crises (2021)
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Rutter, N., Hasan, E., Pilson, A., & Yeo, E. (2023). “It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine…Because Everything Is Fucked Anyway”: Utilizing Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography to Navigate Global Crises. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211019595

Unpacking our experiences as trainee researchers navigating a global pandemic; in this research four researchers identify and interpret otherwise individual experiences through a collective lens. These shared responses are collated and understood thr... Read More about “It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine…Because Everything Is Fucked Anyway”: Utilizing Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography to Navigate Global Crises.

What styles of reasoning are important in primary English? (2021)
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Oliver, M. (2021). What styles of reasoning are important in primary English?. The Curriculum Journal, 32(4), 704-721. https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.120

The importance of teaching reasoning in schools is widely recognised. Yet this has presented teachers with difficulties, particularly in primary education. Difficulties partially stem from a lack of cohesive theory about reasoning for education and a... Read More about What styles of reasoning are important in primary English?.