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Can ‘Philosophy for Children’ improve primary school attainment? (2016)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., & See, B. (2017). Can ‘Philosophy for Children’ improve primary school attainment?. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 51(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12227

There are tensions within formal education between imparting knowledge and the development of skills for handling that knowledge. In the primary school sector, the latter can also be squeezed out of the curriculum by a focus on basic skills such as l... Read More about Can ‘Philosophy for Children’ improve primary school attainment?.

An investigation into the teaching and learning of argumentation in first year undergraduate courses: A pilot study (2016)
Journal Article
See, B. (2016). An investigation into the teaching and learning of argumentation in first year undergraduate courses: A pilot study. British journal of education, society & behavioural science, 18(4), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.9734/bjesbs/2016/29659

A fundamental role of universities is to develop independent and critical thinkers. An effective strategy to do this is a good command of argumentative skills. This paper presents the results of a one-year pilot study examining the teaching and learn... Read More about An investigation into the teaching and learning of argumentation in first year undergraduate courses: A pilot study.

The most effective approaches to teaching in primary schools: Rigorous evidence on effective teaching (2016)
Book
Gorard, S., See, B., & Morris, R. (2016). The most effective approaches to teaching in primary schools: Rigorous evidence on effective teaching. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

This is a wide-ranging review of the evidence on effective teaching approaches for primary age children. It evaluates the evidence carefully, leading to summaries of what is known to work, what is not known to work, and what is known to be harmful. T... Read More about The most effective approaches to teaching in primary schools: Rigorous evidence on effective teaching.

Understanding the moral values of young people and the key influences on their character development (2016)
Journal Article
See, B. (2018). Understanding the moral values of young people and the key influences on their character development. Interdisciplinary education and psychology, 2(2), Article 1

The aim of the paper is to explore young people’s perceptions of moral values and the kind of influences that shape their behaviour. The study is based on the perceptions of 1,997 children in England at the point of transition from primary to seconda... Read More about Understanding the moral values of young people and the key influences on their character development.

What works and what fails? Evidence from seven popular literacy ‘catch-up’ schemes for the transition to secondary school in England (2016)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., & See, B. (2017). What works and what fails? Evidence from seven popular literacy ‘catch-up’ schemes for the transition to secondary school in England. Research Papers in Education, 32(5), 626-648. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2016.1225811

There are concerns that too many young people, from disadvantaged backgrounds, are moving into secondary education in the UK, and elsewhere, without the necessary literacy skills to make progress with the wider secondary school curriculum. A large nu... Read More about What works and what fails? Evidence from seven popular literacy ‘catch-up’ schemes for the transition to secondary school in England.

Context and Implications Document for: Impact of arts education on children's learning and wider outcomes (2016)
Journal Article
See, B., & Kokotsaki, D. (2016). Context and Implications Document for: Impact of arts education on children's learning and wider outcomes. Review of Education, 4(3), 263-265. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3074

This guide accompanies the following article: Beng Huat See and Dimitra Kokotsaki, Impact of arts education on children's learning and wider outcomes, Review of Education, DOI: 10.1002/rev3.3070

Impact of arts education on children’s learning and wider outcomes (2016)
Journal Article
See, B., & Kokotsaki, D. (2016). Impact of arts education on children’s learning and wider outcomes. Review of Education, 4(3), 234-262. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3070

Almost every educational system in the world regards numeracy and literacy as more important than the arts. In the UK arts interest groups and politicians have, for years, asked for arts education to be accorded the same priority arguing that arts co... Read More about Impact of arts education on children’s learning and wider outcomes.

An evaluation of Fresh Start as a catch-up intervention: A trial conducted by teachers (2016)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., & See, B. (2016). An evaluation of Fresh Start as a catch-up intervention: A trial conducted by teachers. Educational Studies, 42(1), 98-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2016.1148587

This paper describes a randomised controlled trial conducted with 10 secondary schools in England to evaluate the impact and feasibility of Fresh Start as an intervention to help new entrants with low prior literacy. Fresh Start is a synthetic phonic... Read More about An evaluation of Fresh Start as a catch-up intervention: A trial conducted by teachers.