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The (inter)cultural turn in foreign language teaching (2014)
Book Chapter
Holmes, P. (2014). The (inter)cultural turn in foreign language teaching. In N. Pachler, & A. Redondo (Eds.), A practical guide to teaching foreign languages in the secondary school (76-86). (2nd ed.). Routledge

Mapping real-world to online vulnerability in young people with developmental disorders: Illustrations from autism and Williams syndrome (2014)
Journal Article
Lough, E., Flynn, E., & Riby, D. (2014). Mapping real-world to online vulnerability in young people with developmental disorders: Illustrations from autism and Williams syndrome. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-014-0029-2

The Internet poses a new kind of threat, especially for those individuals already vulnerable in society. The current paper draws on the social phenotypes associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Williams syndrome (WS) to propose that indivi... Read More about Mapping real-world to online vulnerability in young people with developmental disorders: Illustrations from autism and Williams syndrome.

Vintage Wine in New Bottles: Situating the Extraordinary Autobiographical Work of Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) and the Sensuous Arts-based Power of her Multi-genre Visual Narrative (2014)
Journal Article
Bagley, C. (2014). Vintage Wine in New Bottles: Situating the Extraordinary Autobiographical Work of Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) and the Sensuous Arts-based Power of her Multi-genre Visual Narrative. International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies, 11(1), 33-43

The evolving genre of arts-based research constitutes a range of arts-derived tools (music, literature, painting, dance, installation, drama) used by qualitative researchers at different phases of the research process, which may encompass data collec... Read More about Vintage Wine in New Bottles: Situating the Extraordinary Autobiographical Work of Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) and the Sensuous Arts-based Power of her Multi-genre Visual Narrative.

Getting to know you: The development of intercultural competence as an essential element in learning Mandarin (2014)
Journal Article
Jin, T. (2014). Getting to know you: The development of intercultural competence as an essential element in learning Mandarin. London Review of Education, 12(1), 20-33. https://doi.org/10.18546/lre.12.1.04

The role of cultural dimensions in the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language in the UK is not as fully understood as it needs to be, especially in relation to developing students' abilities with intercultural communication. This paper adopts an e... Read More about Getting to know you: The development of intercultural competence as an essential element in learning Mandarin.

Lessons from abroad: Whatever happened to pedagogy? (2014)
Journal Article
Elliott, J. (2014). Lessons from abroad: Whatever happened to pedagogy?. Comparative Education, 50(1), 27-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2013.871835

This paper considers attempts to import pedagogic practices from other educational systems. In so doing, it focuses upon policymakers’ attempts to: (a) import interactive whole class teaching approaches to the UK (and, to a lesser extent, the US); an... Read More about Lessons from abroad: Whatever happened to pedagogy?.

Re-reading Plato: the slow cure for knowledge (2014)
Book Chapter
Smith, R. (2014). Re-reading Plato: the slow cure for knowledge. In M. Papastephanou, T. Strand, & A. Pirrie (Eds.), Philosophy as a lived experience : navigating through dichotomies of thought and action (23-37). Lit

What might be called the mainstream of western philosophy has sought to discover clear and distinct ideas on which accounts of truth, goodness and justice can be built with confidence. Plato has often been seen as central to this tradition, and even... Read More about Re-reading Plato: the slow cure for knowledge.

Critical Literacy through Initial Teacher Education in English (2014)
Journal Article
Stevens, D. (2014). Critical Literacy through Initial Teacher Education in English. Changing English, 21(1), 32-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684x.2013.875752

In this paper, I seek to ascertain whether critical literacy may have an important and realisable place in current English pedagogy, having first tried to establish what is meant by critical literacy, and what its contexts are for my purposes here, i... Read More about Critical Literacy through Initial Teacher Education in English.

Thinking with Feeling: Fostering productive thought in the classroom (2014)
Book
Newton, D. (2014). Thinking with Feeling: Fostering productive thought in the classroom. Routledge

Are emotions good or bad for thinking and learning? Have you ever wondered why a good lesson of one year falls flat in another? Why do students behave the way they do? Teachers are expected to foster productive thought yet the neglect of emotion in t... Read More about Thinking with Feeling: Fostering productive thought in the classroom.

The link between Academies in England, pupil outcomes and local patterns of socio-economic segregation between schools (2014)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2014). The link between Academies in England, pupil outcomes and local patterns of socio-economic segregation between schools. Research Papers in Education, 29(3), 268-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2014.885726

This paper considers the pupil intakes to Academies in England, and their attainment, based on a re-analysis of figures from the Annual Schools Census 1989–2012, the Department for Education School Performance Tables 2004–2012 and the National Pupil... Read More about The link between Academies in England, pupil outcomes and local patterns of socio-economic segregation between schools.

Creating Joint Representations of Collaborative Problem Solving with Multi-touch Technology (2014)
Journal Article
Mercier, E., & Higgins, S. (2014). Creating Joint Representations of Collaborative Problem Solving with Multi-touch Technology. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 30(6), 497-510. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12052

Multi-touch surfaces have the potential to change the nature of computer-supported collaborative learning, allowing more equitable access to shared digital content. In this paper, we explore how large multi-touch tables can be used by groups of stude... Read More about Creating Joint Representations of Collaborative Problem Solving with Multi-touch Technology.

Women's magazines in Asian and Middle Eastern countries (2014)
Journal Article
Siddiqui, N. (2014). Women's magazines in Asian and Middle Eastern countries. South Asian Popular Culture, 12(1), 29-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/14746689.2014.879423

This article provides an overarching view of research available in the field of women's magazines and popular media in Asian and Middle Eastern countries. One of the common themes of research is the influence of western media on the other cultural me... Read More about Women's magazines in Asian and Middle Eastern countries.

Schneider and Wagemann's proposed Enhanced Standard Analysis for Ragin's Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Some unresolved problems and some suggestions for addressing them. COMPASSS Working Paper 2014-77 (2014)
Preprint / Working Paper
Cooper, B., Glaesser, J., & Thomson, S. (2014). Schneider and Wagemann's proposed Enhanced Standard Analysis for Ragin's Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Some unresolved problems and some suggestions for addressing them. COMPASSS Working Paper 2014-77

Ragin's (2008) Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) provides a way of undertaking case-based configurational analysis, focusing on necessary and sufficient conditions. QCA is increasingly used to undertake systematic set-theoretic analyses of small... Read More about Schneider and Wagemann's proposed Enhanced Standard Analysis for Ragin's Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Some unresolved problems and some suggestions for addressing them. COMPASSS Working Paper 2014-77.

The effects of room design on computer-supported collaborative learning in a multi-touch classroom (2014)
Journal Article
Mercier, E. M., Higgins, S. E., & Joyce-Gibbons, A. (2016). The effects of room design on computer-supported collaborative learning in a multi-touch classroom. Interactive Learning Environments, 24(3), 504-522. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2014.881392

While research indicates that technology can be useful for supporting learning and collaboration, there is still relatively little uptake or widespread implementation of these technologies in classrooms. In this paper, we explore one aspect of the de... Read More about The effects of room design on computer-supported collaborative learning in a multi-touch classroom.

A closer look at liminality: incorrigibles and threshold capital (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Land, R., Vivian, P., & Rattray, J. (2014). A closer look at liminality: incorrigibles and threshold capital. In Threshold concepts : from personal practice to communities of practice. Proceedings of the National Academy’s Sixth Annual Conference and the Fourth Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, January 2014 (1-12)

Learning in the Liminal Space: A Semiotic Approach to Threshold Concepts (2014)
Journal Article
Land, R., Rattray, J., & Vivian, P. (2014). Learning in the Liminal Space: A Semiotic Approach to Threshold Concepts. Higher Education, 67(2), 199-217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-013-9705-x

The threshold concepts approach to student learning and curriculum design now informs an empirical research base comprising over 170 disciplinary and professional contexts. It draws extensively on the notion of troublesomeness in a ‘liminal’ space of... Read More about Learning in the Liminal Space: A Semiotic Approach to Threshold Concepts.

Creating the next Generation of E-Assessments in the Real World (2014)
Journal Article
Byatt, R. (2014). Creating the next Generation of E-Assessments in the Real World. International journal of e-assessment, 1(1),

With the technologies and analysis models available to us, there are an ever increasing number of ways we can deliver e-assessments. However, when trying to deliver reliable, innovative and rich e-assessments in the real world a number of technical c... Read More about Creating the next Generation of E-Assessments in the Real World.

A proposal for judging the trustworthiness of research findings (2014)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2014). A proposal for judging the trustworthiness of research findings. Radical statistics, 110, 47-59

This paper offers a procedure for, and a description of the elements involved in judging how trustworthy a research finding is. The idea is of value to the users of research evidence and to researchers themselves when creating a synthesis of existing... Read More about A proposal for judging the trustworthiness of research findings.