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Gibbs, Paul – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
Although there has been considerable debate in contemporary literature on the erosion of the public good in higher education, most of it has been concentrated on the word 'public' rather than on the notion of 'good'. Further, the idea of higher education and the organisations for its delivery have become conflated through a focus on the 'good' as…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Institutional Role, Individual Development, Foreign Countries
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Bell, David M.; Pahl, Kate – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2018
This article outlines how co-production might be understood as a utopian method, which both attends to and works against dominant inequalities. It suggests that it might be positioned 'within, against, and beyond' current configurations of power in academia and society more broadly. It develops this argument by drawing on recent research funded…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Universities, Imagination
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Makosa, Pawel – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2022
The beginnings of Polish emigration to the British Isles date back to the 16th century, but a particularly large Polish diaspora was established after World War II when many soldiers stayed in Great Britain because they could not return to communist Poland for fear of persecution. The largest wave of emigration, however, occurred after Poland…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Community Schools, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
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Fielding, Michael – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2022
Prompted by the centenary of the founding of Summerhill, in my contribution to this JOPE Suite on Democratic Education, I briefly explore both the admiring reciprocity and the subsidiary but significant differences of praxis between A.S. Neill and Alex Bloom, two remarkable pioneers of education in and for participatory democracy as a way of life.…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Comparative Analysis, Professional Recognition
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Wilson, Alex; Wilson, Chris; Witthaus, Gabi – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2020
Research in the higher education literature argues that communities of practice (CoPs) can be effective staff development by helping academics to share teaching experiences and innovations. One of the key proposed benefits of CoPs involves the opportunity for early career practitioners to learn from more experienced colleagues. This raises the…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Higher Education, Teaching Experience, Business Schools
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Morgan, Haydn J.; Bush, Anthony J. – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
Reducing social exclusion through interventions designed to sustain school engagement is a key aim of the education and social policy of any government. This paper is a response to the call for there to be more focused empirical sports coaching research through examining the transformative potential of community-based sports coaches to support…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Athletic Coaches, Community Programs, School Community Relationship
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Mateer, John – Film Education Journal, 2019
With a growing emphasis on employability and commercial relevance, universities are increasingly involving practitioners in delivery to add perceived value and credibility to their film and television courses. Likewise, film education researchers, including Bergala (2016), see significant value in practitioner involvement in teaching. Yet, from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Television, Broadcast Industry
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Pelikan, Kristina; Jeffery, Roger; Roelcke, Thorsten – Research Ethics, 2021
Writing reflects some of the different characteristics of the language being used and of the people who are communicating. The present paper focusses on the internal written communication in international and inter-disciplinary research projects. Using a case study of an international public health research project, it argues that the authorship…
Descriptors: Ethics, Writing (Composition), Collaborative Writing, Research
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Jones, Derek; Lotz, Nicole; Holden, Georgy – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2021
The use of virtual design studios (VDS) in practice-based STEM education is increasing but requires further research to inform understanding of student learning and success. This paper presents a longitudinal, large-scale study (3 years, 3000 students) of student behaviour in an online design studio used as part of a distance learning Design and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, STEM Education, Foreign Countries
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Harvey, Deborah; Hedenström, Erik; Finch, Paul – School Science Review, 2017
In a project to determine the UK distribution of a conservation-status beetle "Elater ferrugineus", 300 volunteers were recruited and supplied with traps containing a female pheromone that is an effective attractant for adult males. The occurrence and distribution of the insect were extended from previously estimated values and shown to…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Volunteers, Climate, Ecology
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Tierney, Anne M.; Aidulis, Dorothy; Park, Julian; Clark, Katherine – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2020
Increasingly, academics are engaging with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). However, within United Kingdom higher education, the definition of and activities that constitute SoTL remain open to debate. In this article, we explore SoTL through four career histories that give insight into how SoTL has developed and played a role in…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Communities of Practice
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Markham, Wolfgang A.; Dolan, Alan; Moore, Graham F. – SAGE Open, 2021
A framework for understanding relationships between school connectedness and student aberrant behaviors is outlined that is synthesized from Merton's insights into anomie and Bernstein's theory of cultural transmission (which focuses on schools' instructional methods and students' internalization of schools' values). A seven-category…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Aspiration, Student School Relationship
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Mulrooney, Hilda Mary; Kelly, Alison Faith – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2021
The physical space of campus may influence student belonging. Quantitative data were collected using a bespoke questionnaire among a diverse group of students at a post-92 UK university. A total of 635 students, primarily female, undergraduate and of diverse ethnicity participated. Overall sense of belonging and agreement that campus space was…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, College Environment, Social Environment, Campuses
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Lundie, David; Ali, Waqaus; Ashton, Michael; Billingsley, Sue; Heydari, Hinnah; Iqbal, Karamat; McDowell, Kate; Thompson, Matthew – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
This paper reports the co-creation of knowledge through a Practitioner Action Research Community of Practice of teachers and mid-level policy enactors which sought to engage the question of how to enhance Religious Education in primary schools serving socially disadvantaged children. Co-authors' professional values and assumptions are explored,…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Action Research, School Community Relationship, Disadvantaged
Carroll, Matthew; Constantinou, Filio – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented disruption to education around the world. There is much to learn from this period, to better understand what happened, to provide support to those affected, and to inform future responses to disruption. This research aimed to contribute to this field by recording teachers' experiences of teaching in the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teaching Experience, Elementary School Teachers
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