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Preparation of secondary mainstream teachers to ensure equitable outcomes for English learners Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Carla Huck
Current trends in education, including a rapidly growing student population of English learners (ELs) in the United States requiring equitable education opportunities, have increased the need for all teachers to prepare themselves for culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Many secondary teachers enter the profession without completing formal teacher preparation programs and often require
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Multi-governance in higher education: The case of Chile 2018-2023 Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Mario Alarcón, José Joaquín Brunner
This article examines the different roles the State/government plays in coordinating the Chilean higher education system. It proposes a conceptual and analytical framework based on a multi-governance approach, which considers multi-level, multi-actor and multi-agenda dimensions. This framework is used to study the different roles played by the State in higher education governance in Chile, especially
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Mediating educational technologies: Edtech brokering between schools, academia, governance, and industry Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Carlos Ortegón, Mathias Decuypere, Ben Williamson
The use of educational technologies in schools is being reshaped by a new kind of intermediary organization that brokers relations between schools, academia, governance, and industry. In this article we define and examine ‘edtech brokers’ as organizations that operate between the edtech industry, public schools, research centers and governments, guiding schools in the procurement and pedagogical use
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Working at the frontier: Swiss educational information and communication technology coordinators as mediators and intermediaries of the digital transformation Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Michael Geiss, Tobias Röhl
This article examines Swiss educational information and communication technology (ICT) coordinators (‘Pädagogischer ICT-Support’; PICTS) in Swiss compulsory schools in their ambivalent role between active agents of change and mere facilitators for their colleagues. Using a qualitative research design, it explores the history, self-perception and current roles of PICTS in the canton of Zurich and their
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Approaches to spatial inequalities in a Nordic welfare state – the case of Norway Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Unn-Doris K Baeck
In this article, the position of the core ideas of equity and equal opportunities within the Nordic model of education today is problematized, using Norway as the case of interest and spatial dividing lines as the main variable in question. I am specifically preoccupied with geographical education differences as part of the ‘unequal opportunity problem’ in Nordic education. Focusing on spatial inequalities
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Exploring the intermediary role of ed-tech consulting in Germany: In-between policy, pedagogy, and economics Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Lucas Joecks
This paper presents a critical analysis of the multifaceted intermediary role played by ed-tech (educational technology) consulting providers in the realm of educational governance. The study draws on multidisciplinary research and uses illustrative examples from Germany to outline their impact on the integration of digital technologies in schools. By employing an analytical framework that encompasses
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Mutual learning through participatory storytelling: Creative approaches to climate adaptation education in secondary schools Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Catherine Heinemeyer, Matthew Reason, Natalie Quatermass, Natalie Wood, Olalekan Adekola
Unprecedented global temperatures have brought the question of how to teach sensitive issues of climate change to the fore. In this paper we suggest that a refocusing on adaptation productively shifts the debate to climate justice and practical solutions to building community resilience. The paper examines a practice-led project that sought to innovate and test the use of participatory storytelling
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Impacts of neoliberal school reforms policy on students with disabilities in Nepal Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Mukti Thapaliya
This article argues that special and inclusive education policies in Nepal have been influenced by neoliberal policy reforms. The study employs discourse analysis as a theoretical perspective to analyse the effects of market-based schooling practices on students with disabilities in Nepal. The findings of this study are informed to some extent by the outcomes of the doctoral research project (Thapaliya
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Governance by intermediarization. Insights into the digital infrastructuring of education in Estonia Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Sigrid Hartong
With the rising prevalence of digital data, infrastructures and platforms in education, the challenge of conceptualizing and investigating ‘intermediaries’ has substantially increased. This not only refers to various new types of actors that have been materializing around practices of data infrastructuring (e.g., data management), but equally to the rising empowerment of data infrastructures themselves
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Should we trust the university casual academic? A narrative inquiry case study Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Daron Benjamin Loo
This study explores how trust is established by a casual academic working at a Malaysian public university. Narrative data was collected through a series of semi-structured interview with a case pa...
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Beyond boundaries? Disability, DIY and punk pedagogies Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Francis Stewart, Laura Way
DIY is often viewed as a core element of punk, an aspect that enabled activism against an assumed authority and power (Guerra, 2018; Martin-Iverson, 2017). It is therefore often lauded as a means o...
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Exploring the relationship between transphobia and homophobia and other demographic factors among practicing and future primary school teachers Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Ana M Amigo-Ventureira, Montserrat Durán, Renée DePalma
Based on an existing measure of homophobia, we developed an instrument to measure both transphobia and homophobia, as well as their relationship with other demographic variables that included attri...
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Rhythmanalysis as methodology for understanding the social complexity of school spaces Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Tanya Davies
This paper reports on Henri Lefebvre’s methodological approach of 'rhythmanalysis' as a productive tool to understand the complex social constructions of school spaces. Schooling is founded on rela...
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COVID-Pandemic in Nepal: An Opportunity to Institutionalise Local Governance in School Education Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Devendra Adhikari, Dr Chandra Sharma Poudyal, Dr Rajan Binayek Pasa
The 2015 constitution of Nepal declared Nepal to be a Federal, Democratic, and Republic nation. The constitution has provided local governments the right to manage school education, and the 2017 Lo...
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How do preschool teachers perceive students’ developmental in difficult times? A photovoice study Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Indra Y. Kiling, Daniela L. A. Boeky, Putri A. Rihi Tugu, Beatriks N. Bunga, Elga Andriana
Young children’s development is a crucial period determining their adult outcomes. Through adversities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, preschool teachers play an essential role in nurturing childr...
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“We’re fighting for our lives”: Centering affective, collective and systemic approaches to climate justice education as a youth mental health imperative Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Maria Vamvalis
Young people’s ongoing, necessary confrontation with painful and distressing realities exacerbated by ecological precarity in diverse contexts has profound implications for formal education systems...
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Dualities in creative thinking: a novel approach to teaching and learning creativity Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Andrew Rockliffe, Jane Mckay
In this paper, we present a novel approach to defining, teaching, and assessing creativity by examining its origins and delineating the processes involved. The rationale for introducing this framew...
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Problems posing as solutions: Criticising pragmatism as a paradigm for mixed research Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Timothy Hampson, Jim McKinley
Mixed research is a methodology of growing importance both within and without education. This type of research forces researchers to reconcile conflicting ways of justifying and understanding resea...
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White working-class youth, rural disadvantage, sense of belonging and bonded social capital Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Carl Bagley
The paper critically reflects on data derived from prolonged periods of ethnographic study in an economically disadvantaged white workingclass rural community in the North East of England. A centra...
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Climate change as superordinate curriculum? Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-02-23 David Long, Joseph Henderson
Despite being one of the largest carbon emitters in the world, the United States has little direct emphasis on climate change in its schools. Even where there is desire to teach climate change, the...
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Sources and consequences of teacher attrition in large-scale intervention impact studies Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Joseph A Taylor, Debi Hanuscin, Okhee Lee, Sharon Lynch, Molly AM Stuhlsatz, Robert Talbot
In this paper, we critically examine the way in which scholars have traditionally defined and problematized attrition. Through a series of examples of large-scale intervention impact studies, we sh...
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‘Dare to be silent’: Re-conceptualising silence as a positive pedagogical approach in schools Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Feng Su, Margaret Wood, Robert Tribe
In Western societies, school pedagogies tend to be biased in favour of talk and emphasise the links between talking, thinking and learning. Thus talk is often privileged over silence as the basis f...
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Punk teacher education: Finding ways to interrupt the harmful effects of teacher accountabilities Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Greg Vass
In recent years a suite of policies and practices that are strongly influenced by efforts to make the work of educators and education providers more accountable, have had a powerful impact across t...
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Where is the Love, y’all? Punk Pedagogy in High School Choir Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Austina Frances Lee, Gareth Dylan Smith
Capitalism and its offspring, neoliberalism, are omnipresent in modern and postmodern societies. Illich, Giroux, and McLaren, among others, point to the futility and inequity of current models of e...
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Multi-level governance framework and its applicability to education policy research - the Canadian perspective Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-11-19 Merli Tamtik, Cara Colorado
Education policies are increasingly characterized as complex and dynamic, involving a multitude of actors and policy networks. As a result, there is a growing demand in education for research appro...
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A review of undergraduates’ stories about their learning experiences analysed using the lens of fairy tales Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Gina Sherwood
Storytelling is an aspect of research that has gathered significant popularity but is less commonly discussed in the context of student feedback. This paper focuses on how it can be applied to impr...
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Psychological and pedagogical preparation of the future teacher for the development of dialogical speech of primary school children Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Dinara Muratbekova, Aigul Galiyeva, Nadezhda Khanina, Zhadra Zhexembayeva, Raushan Assylova
The relevance of the research is due to the fact that in modern education there is a growing need for training qualified teachers who are capable of organising dialogical training of younger school...
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New corporate players and educational policy: How might the Australian competition and consumer commission help us to understand AI’s associations with educational policy? Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Janine Aldous Arantes
In the last decade education has experienced a shift from privatization to commercialization. This paper argues that the commercialization of education has evolved more recently as a result of arti...
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Punk ideals, school leaders and fashioning an “authentic” self Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Amanda Heffernan, Pat Thomson
The field of education is in dire need of different ways of thinking about attracting, supporting, and retaining school leaders. We see the idea of punk as a space that may offer some leeway for th...
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Little Kids Rock and modern band in US schools: A punk problematic Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Gareth Dylan Smith, Bryan Powell, David Knapp
The pervasive Eurocentric model of music education in the United States is hegemonic, pursuing a model of performance excellence in large ensembles that, by the time young people reach high school,...
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The classification accuracy and consistency of comparative judgement of writing compared to rubric-based teacher assessment Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Anne Pinot de Moira, Christopher Wheadon, Daisy Christodoulou
Writing is generally assessed internationally using rubric-based approaches, but there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that the reliability of such approaches is poor. In contrast, compara...
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Theorizing Māori-Philippine solidarities through agential realism and punk rock pedagogy Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Noah Romero, Marta Estellés, Wairehu Grant
This article utilizes looks to punk rock pedagogy or the ways in which countercultural and decolonial ontologies are developed in punk subculture, to theorize Māori-Philippine relations in Aotearoa...
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Teacher motivation in Chile: Motivational profiles and teaching quality in an incentive-based education system Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Miguel Órdenes, Ernesto Treviño, Rosario Escribano, Diego Carrasco
This study drew on Chilean teacher survey responses from TALIS 2018 data on teacher motivation in order to examine the extent to which these data reveal different motivational profiles among Chilea...
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School teams’ regulation strategies for dealing with school-external expectations for school improvement Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Andrea Wullschleger, Ariane Rickenbacher, Beat Rechsteiner, Urs Grob, Katharina Maag Merki
School-external expectations regarding implementation of reforms and innovations often do not lead to successful school improvement processes in schools. To better understand these processes in sch...
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Changing notions of teacher autonomy: The intersection of teacher autonomy and instructional improvement in the US Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Angela M Lyle, Donald J Peurach
Historically, teachers had been delegated the primary responsibility for the organization and management of classroom instruction in US public schools. While this delegation afforded teachers profe...
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Willingness to communicate in a second language and the promise of complex dynamic systems theory: A narrative review Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Hassan Syed, Shumaila Memon, Zulfiqar Ali Chachar, Sharique Zameer, Tanweer Shah
Willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC) is a speaker’s voluntary engagement in communication using a target language. WTC has undergone several conceptualisations over the past twe...
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International organizations and the technical and professional education networks in Latin America: A comparative analysis between Brazil and Mexico Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Adriano Larentes da Silva
This paper presents the results of a study that investigated technical and professional educational policies in both Brazil and Mexico, and the relations of these two countries with international n...
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Education without evidence: Gaps in data availability for refugee, asylee, and humanitarian migrant students in US schools Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-07-28 Alexander W Wiseman, Joel C Bell
The collection and use of empirical data for educational decision-making in the United States is required by the Every School Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the Results Driven Accountability mandate, but ...
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Positionality and self-reflexivity: Backyard qualitative research in Palestine Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-07-27 Yasmin Snounu
Conducting qualitative, critical ethnographical research on disability in Palestine requires deep self-reflexivity, exploring positionality while claiming authorship. As a Palestinian conducting ba...
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Gender, education, and career in the Arab world: A literature review Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-07-26 Najib A Mozahem
The underrepresentation of females in certain fields has been studied extensively in many countries. Similar to other parts of the World, the number of females graduating each year from universitie...
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School-wide positive behaviour support as evidence-making interventions Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Tim Corcoran, Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas
Global implementation of School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) has grown considerably over the last forty years. SWPBS seeks to provide a multi-tiered approach to strategically frame integrated actions responding to matters of wellbeing, discipline and punishment in schools using Evidence-Based Interventions (EBIs). In this respect, EBIs rely on what are presumed to be value-free, reliably
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Teachers’ professional collaboration and trust relationships: An inferential social network analysis of teacher teams Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Nina Kolleck, Johannes Schuster, Ulrike Hartmann, Cornelia Gräsel
In recent years, teachers around the world have been increasingly confronted with various expectations concerning the improvement of their classroom practices and school activities. One factor widely acknowledged to facilitate school and classroom improvement is a strong collaborative culture among teachers. As such, teachers are expected to work in teacher teams, to collaborate closely with colleagues
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Classroom teaching or academic publishing? An investigation of Philippine doctoral academics’ beliefs Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Mark B Ulla, Veronico N Tarrayo
Classroom teaching, academic publishing, and community service may be considered the primary responsibilities among academics in higher education institutions (HEIs). While there have been a number of studies that explored the teaching–research nexus in different contexts, little is known about the perceived roles of HEI academics with regard to teaching and research. This article explores Philippine
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Teacher evaluation of the impact of The Imagineerium education project on the creativity of individual students: The Trowsdale Index of teacher observation of student creativity Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-05-20 Jo Trowsdale, Ursula McKenna, Leslie J Francis
In order to evaluate the impact of The Imagineerium a 10-week educational project, teachers were asked to observe and rate the behaviour of a pilot sample of 135 participating students both at the beginning and at the end of the 10-week period. Scores recorded on the seven-item Trowsdale Index of Teacher Observation of Student Creativity (TITOSC) showed a significant increase between time one and time
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What syllabus documents can tell us about the presence and position of dance in Early Childhood Teacher Education: A Swedish perspective Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-04-22 Märtha Pastork Gripson, Torun Mattsson, Ninnie Andersson
This study problematizes becoming early childhood teachers’ possibilities to develop knowledge relevant to teaching dance. The aim was to analyze the presence and position of dance in Swedish early childhood teacher education syllabi. Discourse analysis was used to identify patterns, regularities, hierarchies and gaps in the steering documents. The empirical material consisted of syllabi of twelve
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Higher education, the arts, and transdisciplinarity: A systematic review of the literature Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Wander M van Baalen, Tamara de Groot, Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens
Against an increasingly compartmentalized educational landscape, we have heard urgent calls for new modes of teaching and learning. In this light, educators from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds turned to transdisciplinarity and the arts for a possible response. The educational initiatives being developed and the related literature are situated across a wide range of themes, disciplines, and methodologies
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Teaching (through) autoethnography Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Oskar Szwabowski, Paulina Wężniejewska, Monika Łozińska
This text is about teaching evocative autoethnography in higher education. The main part entitled ‘On stage’ is a record of the presentation at the “Ideatorium” conference devoted to academic teaching. We decided to talk about the project “Autoethnography of Study” which Oskar conducted at the University of Szczecin. Instead of describing, we showed what had happened. Or maybe what seemed to us – me
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Tracing accountability in higher education Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Nikos Macheridis, Alexander Paulsson
Drawing upon earlier studies of reforms and institutional changes in higher education, the purpose of this paper is to trace how the understanding of accountability has changed over the past twenty years and how it is understood to have impacted on higher education institutions. We do so by reviewing more than 350 papers and by asking three questions: Who answers to whom? For what are they answering
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Roles, relationships and emotions: Student teachers’ understanding of feedback as interpersonal Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Caroline Elbra-Ramsay
This paper reports the findings of a small-scale study seeking to investigate how student teachers, within a three-year undergraduate programme, understand feedback. Feedback has been central to debates and discussion in the assessment literature in recent years. Hence, in this paper, feedback is positioned within the often-contradictory discourses of assessment, including perspectives on student and
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Capital access and its mobilization for academic achievement: A case of Indian higher education system Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Saurabh Maheshwari, Purnima Singh
Previous research has demonstrated a strong relationship between access to capital and academic achievement. The present study explores the mediating role of the individual mindset and class perception in the capital–achievement relation. A survey-based study is conducted on 314 Delhi based undergraduate students. Different measures/proxies of various forms of capital and achievement are used. To see
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Attending to data: Exploring the use of attendance data within the datafied school Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Neil Selwyn, Luci Pangrazio, Bronwyn Cumbo
Contemporary schooling is seen to be altering significantly in light of a combined ‘digitisation’ and ‘datafication’ of key processes. This paper examines the nature and conditions of the datafied school by exploring how a relatively prosaic and longstanding school metric (student attendance data) is being produced and used in digital form. Drawing on empirical data taken from in-depth qualitative
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Parity of participation for autistic students: Mapping provision across UK higher education institutions Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Jonathan Vincent, Helen Rowe, Jo Johnson
This paper systematically identifies, maps and evaluates specific types of provision for autistic students published on university websites at 120 institutions throughout the UK. Within these data we identify trends in relation to geographical region, university group, and the Teaching Excellence Framework rating. We employ Nancy Fraser’s theory of social justice to unpack the reasons that underlie
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Moving from association to mediation: A sociocultural approach to assessment Research in Education Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Barohny Eun, Steven E. Knotek
A Vygotskian approach to assessment is proposed by invoking the distinction between the development of lower and higher psychological functions. Higher psychological functions are specifically huma...
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A tale of two studies: Reflections on issues faced by novice researchers during data collection and analysis in Pakistan Research in Education Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Hassan Syed, Ghazal Kazim Syed
This paper reports on the challenges faced by two researchers during data collection and translation of data and analysis in two public sector universities in Pakistan. Data collection from each in...
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Reflections on conducting qualitative school-based research with children: A research note Research in Education Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Caitríona Fitzgerald
This research note offers a critical reflection of the process of conducting qualitative research in the Irish primary school setting. The research discussed took place during the school year 2016–...
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Programming the platform university: Learning analytics and predictive infrastructures in higher education Research in Education Pub Date : 2020-10-14 Carlo Perrotta
This article offers a case study of how platforms and predictive infrastructures are emerging in higher education. It examines a Learning Analytics Application Programming Interface (API) from a po...
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An exploration of the challenges faced by traveling adjuncts Research in Education Pub Date : 2020-07-06 Phyllis A Witt, Christopher A Gearin
Higher education institutions are heavily reliant on part-time adjuncts to teach their students. These part-time adjuncts now account for the majority of faculty in the United States. This qualitat...
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Contested places: Addressing the TRC in higher education Research in Education Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Sandra Styres, Dawn Zinga, Velta Douglas, Fiona Purton
Using a Community-First Land-Centered Framework this article reflects on an analysis of the research findings of a SSHRC funded research project. The project examined the ways two universities were...
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Disrupting the representational limit of abductively-driven research: A problematization of the link between abduction and representational thought Research in Education Pub Date : 2020-04-29 Adrian W. Chew
Abduction and abductively-driven research approaches have been foregrounded by researchers as a way to introduce new concepts, ideas and insights. This paper argues that while abduction allows for ...
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Aligning the times: Exploring the convergence of researchers, policy makers and research evidence in higher education policy making Research in Education Pub Date : 2020-04-26 Karen Smith, Scott Fernie, Nick Pilcher
The complexity of contemporary higher education policy making and the multitude of evidences and actors in policy networks mean that relationships between higher education researchers, policy maker...