Education Research

Power, rights and play: control of play in school grounds, an action research project from Wales

Tyrie, Jacky; Sarwar, Sian; Dumitrscu, Sandra; Mannello, M.; Haughton, Chantelle; Ellis, Cheryl; Connolly, M. (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'

North, Kate (The Lonely Crowd, 2018)

Portals between worlds: A study of the experiences of children aged 7–11 years from primary schools in Wales making music outdoors

Adams, Dylan; Beauchamp, Gary (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

Davies, Dan; Davis, Susan; Egan, David; Hodgkin, Kieran (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

Hodgkin, Kieran (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

Connolly, Mark; Haughton, Chantelle (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

Lewis, Alyson; Sarwar (nee Evans), Sian; Tyrie, Jacky; Waters, Jane (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 ...

‘We thought you were undercover, here to inspect us’ – Some of the Challenges of Ethnographic Fieldwork in Schools

Hodgkin, Kieran; Fleming, Scott; Beauchamp, Gary; Bryant, Anna (University of Wales Press, 2016-11-01)

This paper provides an insight into the challenges associated with conducting ethnographic fieldwork in a primary school and a secondary school in south Wales. Drawing on personal reflections and experiences, it provides ...

Development and Exemplification of a Model for Teacher Assessment in Primary Science

Davies, Dan; Earle, S; McMahon, K; Howe, A; Collier, C (Taylor & Francis Online, 2017-08-05)

The Teacher Assessment in Primary Science project is funded by the Primary Science Teaching Trust and based at Bath Spa University. The study aims to develop a whole-school model of valid, reliable and manageable teacher ...

Factors Influencing Attitudes towards Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Amongst Undergraduates: An Empirical Study Conducted in Kuwait Higher Education Institutions (KHEIs)

Meerza, Alyya H.; Beauchamp, Gary (TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2017-04-01)

The increasing use of information and communication technology (ICT) in higher education has largely been explored in relation to undergraduates’ attitudes to ICT usage at university. However, the success of ICT in ...

Vocabulary Acquisition via Drama: Welsh as a second language in the primary school setting

Kalogirou, Konstantina; Beauchamp, Gary; Whyte, Shona (Taylor & Francis, 2017-05-19)

This paper tests a new method of teaching vocabulary to young second language learners through the medium of drama, specifically the effect of drama teaching techniques on vocabulary acquisition among primary school learners ...

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 ...