Education Research

Facilitating collaborative learning between two primary schools using large multi-touch devices

McNaughton, James; Crick, Tom; Joyce-Gibbons, Andrew; Beauchamp, Gary; Young, Nick; Tan, Elaine (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2017-03-14)

This paper presents a technical case study and the associated research software/hardware underpinning an educational research trial in which large touchscreen interfaces were used to facilitate collaborative interactions ...

Teaching science creatively, 2nd edition

Davies, Dan; McGregor, Deb (Routledge, 2016)

At ﬁrst glance, science teaching and creativity might seem to be strange bedfellows. For many of us, our experiences of being taught science at school were anything but creative. We think back on experiments to ‘prove’ ...

Sound and performance in public archaeology: examining the benefits of outdoor learning with creative engagement at the Neolithic site of Tinkinswood Burial Chamber, Vale of Glamorgan.

Adams, Dylan; Reynolds, Ffion (Routledge, 2014-02-25)

This paper explores a community archaeology project which took place at Tinkinswood chambered tomb and its surrounding landscape in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The project formed the school outreach element of the ...

Creative pedagogies in early years science: thematic planning and sustained scientific dialogues

Davies, Dan; McMahon, Kendra; Howe, Alan; Collier, Christopher; Earle, Sarah (Esera, 2016)

This paper draws on the ‘See the Science’ Project funded by the Primary Science Teaching Trust that took place in South West England in 2012-13. It aims to illuminate the process of transforming a curriculum document into ...

Teacher education in times of change

Beauchamp, Gary; Clarke, Linda; Hulme, Moira; Jephcote, Martin; Kennedy, Aileen; Magennis, Geraldine; Menter, Ian; Murray, Jean; Mutton, Trevor; O'Doherty, Teresa; Peiser, Gilliam (Policy Press, 2015)

Teacher education in times of change offers a critical examination of teacher education policy in the UK and Ireland over the past three decades, since the first intervention of government in the curriculum. Written by a ...

Assistive Technology and Associated Training: A survey of students who have received the Disabled Students' Allowances

Wilkinson, Susan; Draffan, E.A.; James, A.; Viney, D. (National Association of Disability Practioners, 2013)

This paper aims to highlight some important pointers to improving the provision of assistive technologies (AT) and their support, based on an online survey carried out between September 2011 and February 2012 with results ...

Interactive whiteboards and English teaching: A consideration of typical practice

Kneen, Judith (Wiley, 2015)

This article considers the affordances of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) for English teachers by reﬂecting on the typical use of IWBs by a number of sec- ondary English teachers who use them routinely within their teaching. ...

‘Qui Docet Discet’ (Those who teach learn) – how peer teaching can help prepare student teachers for the classroom

Kneen, Judith; Elaine, Pattison (2012)

This study in reciprocal peer teaching (RPT), in an English Higher Education Institution (HEI), enabled PGCE students teaching English and Modern Languages at secondary level to develop their confidence in interactive ...

Teacher assessment of science in English primary schools

Davies, Dan; Earle, S.; Collier, C.; Digby, R.; Howe, A.; McMahon, K. (2016)

Teacher assessment of pupils’ on-going classroom science work can be a more valid means of judging their attainment than testing, because it can be based on a wider range of evidence; for example, observations, discussions ...

Extended rights for children and young people in Wales? A focus on gender

Tyrie, Jacky (University of Wales Press, 2013)

'Learners’ experience and perceptions of informal learning in Key Stage 3 music lessons: a collective case study, exploring the implementation of Musical Futures in three secondary school in Wales’

Sarwar (nee Evans), Sian; Beauchamp, Gary; John, Vivienne (Taylor and Francis, 2014)

In Wales, one of the seven core aims of the Welsh Government is the importance of allowing the voices of young people to be heard. This investigation placed pupil voice at its centre, exploring the impact of Musical ...

Researching interactive whiteboard (IWB) use from primary school to university settings across Europe: an analytical framework for foreign language teaching

Whyte, Shona; Beauchamp, Gary; Alexander, Julie (University of Wales Press, 2014)

This paper reports on the development of an analytical framework for the observation and analysis of interactive whiteboard (IWB) use in the foreign language (FL) classroom. Developed from existing classifications of IWB ...

Play to Learn: A case-study of parent/carer and child engagement with a physical activity website resource

Hughes, Helen; Fleming, Scott (Taylor & Francis, 2015)

In 2007 Sport Wales produced guidance for practitioners delivering the new Foundation Phase curriculum for children aged 3-7 years. A focus was on physical development and in 2009 a resource entitled Play to Learn was ...

A study of final Year Education Studies Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of Blended Learning within a Higher Education course

Brook, Isabelle; Beauchamp, Gary (BESA, 2015)

This paper reports on a study of final Year Education Studies Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions of Blended Learning within a Higher Education course. Blended learning uses a mixture of online and face-to-face teaching ...