Dr Sophie Ward's Outputs (3)

Education and the 'New Totalitarianism': How standards for reporting on empirical studies of education limit the scope of academic research and communication (2013)
Book Chapter
Ward, S. (2014). Education and the 'New Totalitarianism': How standards for reporting on empirical studies of education limit the scope of academic research and communication. In P. Smeyers, & M. Depaepe (Eds.), Educational research : material culture and its representation (71-85). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03083-8_5

Advances in our understanding of human cognition highlight the utility of the arts to create an inter-subjective feeling of unity, which arises when our minds attune plastically to each other and jointly attend a single event (Brandt PA, Form and mea... Read More about Education and the 'New Totalitarianism': How standards for reporting on empirical studies of education limit the scope of academic research and communication.

Creativity, Freedom and the Crash: how the concept of creativity was used as a bulwark against communism during the Cold War, and as a means to reconcile individuals to neoliberalism prior to the Great Recession (2013)
Journal Article
Ward, S. (2013). Creativity, Freedom and the Crash: how the concept of creativity was used as a bulwark against communism during the Cold War, and as a means to reconcile individuals to neoliberalism prior to the Great Recession. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 11(3), 110-126

At first glance, creativity in the classroom and global capitalism have little in common, yet scratch beneath the surface of ‘creativity’ and we find a discourse of economic and cultural freedom that was used as a bulwark against communism during the... Read More about Creativity, Freedom and the Crash: how the concept of creativity was used as a bulwark against communism during the Cold War, and as a means to reconcile individuals to neoliberalism prior to the Great Recession.

The Enactment of Metalearning Capacity: Using drama to help raise students' awareness of the self as learner (2013)
Journal Article
Ward, S., Connolly, R., & Meyer, J. (2013). The Enactment of Metalearning Capacity: Using drama to help raise students' awareness of the self as learner. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 50(1), 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2012.746517

This paper reports on a study that investigated understanding of learning amongst a cohort of students entering higher education by engaging them, via drama-based activities, with the process of their own learning (metalearning). The study combined M... Read More about The Enactment of Metalearning Capacity: Using drama to help raise students' awareness of the self as learner.