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The development of a reflective tool for internationalisation of the curriculum
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-10-04)Internationalisation of the curriculum focuses on the purposeful development of students’ inter-cultural skills. This can be done through a range of approaches within and outside the curriculum. This article outlines the ... -
Student-centred learning: a humanist perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-21)The notion of student-centred learning is often not defined; within the pedagogic literature it is generally associated with constructivism or principles associated with a constructivist environment such as building on ... -
Doing advisory work: the role of expert advisers in national reviews of teacher education
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)The role and activities of national advise rs engaged in the translation of globally mobile ideas on effective teacher education has received little attention. Drawing on in -depth semi -structured interviews, this ... -
Murky waters: the ongoing evolution of vulnerability under section 189 of the Housing Act 1996
(Sweet and Maxwell, 2019)In the latest instalment of a long line of Pt VII Housing Act 1996 "vulnerability" cases, Mrs Justice Rose observes—seemingly in jest—that perhaps "old Pereira habits die hard". We agree. In the wake of Hotak and Panayiotou, ... -
Exploring synchronous, remote collaborative interaction between learners using multi-touch tables and video conferencing in UK primary schools
(Wiley, 2019-01-11)This study explores remote, non-collocated collaboration via multi-touch table (SynergyNet) and video conferencing software (Skype). Twenty-four participants (aged 10-11 years) in two locations -- primary school classrooms ... -
Student involvement in the UK sex industry: motivations and experiences
(Wiley, 2016-09-19)The Student Sex Work Project was set up in 2012 in the United Kingdom (UK) to locate students who are involved in the sex industry, to discover their motivations and needs, and in doing so provide an evidence base to ... -
Strengthening School Governance in Wales: A Community of Enquiry Approach
(University of Wales Press, 2018-11-01)In 2013 Welsh Government implemented legislation which specified mandatory training for school governors in Wales. The training coincides with sustained improvement in school governance according to reports of Her Majesty's ... -
The Use of Transcranial Magnetic Brain Stimulation to Study Cerebellar Language Function
(Elsevier, 2015-09-11)Many researchers now use noninvasive brain stimulation to investigate a wide range of problems in cognitive neuroscience. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been used successfully for more than a decade to study ... -
Empathy and perception of emotion in eyes from the FEEST/Ekman and Friesen faces
(Elsevier, 2014-09-23)Photographs from the FEEST/Ekman and Friesen 60 faces set were cropped to show only the eye region and presented to participants in each of two experiments. In the first, 60 participants were required to choose which one ... -
Facilitation of Fast Backward Priming After Left Cerebellar Continuous Theta-Burst Stimulation
(Springer, 2017-09-05)Traditional theories of backward priming account only for the priming effects found at long stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs). Here, we suggest that the presence of backward priming at short SOAs may be related to the ... -
Social Justice in Contemporary Housing: Applying Rawls’ Difference Principle
(Routledge, 2018-08-08)Philosophy is not usually seen as a guidance for modern housing policy, but in this new book, Dr Helen Taylor argues that there is something innovative, unusual, and worth discussing about the application of philosophy to ... -
Children’s Perceptions of Their Access to Rights in Wales: The Relevance of Gender and Age
(Brill, 2018-11-24)This paper explores children’s perceptions of gender and age as factors in accessing their rights. While much is known about the policy agenda and legal rights of children in Wales (Williams 2013), there is limited evidence ... -
The Housing (Wales) Act
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Power, rights and play: control of play in school grounds, an action research project from Wales
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-09-05)This paper focuses on the role of control, power and people in utilising school grounds for play. Despite children’s right to play in statute and evidence that play has positive outcomes for children, evidence suggests ... -
'Mount Ainos' and 'Paris, December 25th'
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Portals between worlds: A study of the experiences of children aged 7–11 years from primary schools in Wales making music outdoors
(SAGE, 2018-03-26)There has been increasing interest in the educational value of outdoor learning around the world and in the United Kingdom. This is reflected in the statutory curricula of each country. At present, however, there has been ... -
Transition from Primary to Secondary School and More Able and Talented (MAT) Disadvantaged Pupils: Evidence from South-east Wales
(University of Wales, 2018-03-01)In Wales, as in many other education systems, there is an increasing focus on the impact that poverty can have on the educational achievement of disadvantaged pupils. Educational research in this area has included a focus ... -
Pupils’ Expectations and Experiences of PE across the Primary–secondary Transition in South Wales
(University of Wales, 2018-03-01)This paper explores the experiences of physical education (PE) among a group of 10–11-year-old pupils who made the transition to an inner-city secondary school in south Wales from one of its feeder primary schools during ... -
The perception, management and performance of risk amongst Forest School educators
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-09-23)This article investigates how risk perception amongst teachers within an outdoor educational initiative, Forest School, both shape and are shaped by their understandings of childhood, pedagogy and their own professional ... -
Exploring the Extent of Enactment of Young Children's Rights in the Education System in Wales
(University of Wales Press, 2017-11-01)The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) (UNCRC) is the most widely ratified of all the human rights treaties. In contrast to recent UK-wide developments, the UNCRC has been vigorously taken up in ...
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