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Louise Isham; Joy Fillingham; Jason Schaub – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2025
Qualifying social work education is recognised as playing a critical role in equipping practitioners with the skills and interest to develop a 'research minded' approach to practice, yet in the UK context, the profession continues to grapple with questions about how to support practitioners to sustain and develop these skills post-qualification.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, College Faculty, College Students
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Martin Johnson; Dominika Majewska – Discover Education, 2024
In this paper we consider the issue of formality in learning. Both formal and informal learning appear to be well-defined in educational discourse, in contrast with non-formal learning which is less clearly articulated. This lack of clarity around non-formal learning has consequences for its recognition by teachers and learners. To contribute to…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Learning Processes, Pilot Projects, Literature Reviews
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James Lamont – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2024
This paper describes and analyses the role of peer mentoring in a pilot internship programme that took place in summer 2023. A team of five international MA student-interns participated in a summer pre-sessional programme, acting as communication partners and facilitators. The aim of the study was to investigate the benefits of being peer mentors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Peer Relationship, Foreign Students
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McLeod, Naomi; Stockell, Kathryn; Astbury, Elizabeth; McCann, Julie – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2022
This pilot project explores how young children's self-identity with a focus on respecting difference might be nurtured through Community of Enquiry (CoE), in the tradition of Philosophy for Children (P4C) using artwork in a gallery space. In valuing diversity, respecting difference is key. A group of four- and five-year-old children who expressed…
Descriptors: Children, Philosophy, Self Concept, Differences
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Murray, Jane – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
Young children's questions may offer powerful leverage for knowledge acquisition and deep level learning, yet often go unrecognised and undervalued in early childhood education (ECE) settings. When young children's questions are not heard or respected, they are denied their UNCRC Article 12 right to express their views freely and have 'due weight'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Questioning Techniques
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Neville, Ross D.; Makopoulou, Kyriaki – European Physical Education Review, 2021
There is international consensus that creativity is a fundamental outcome of schooling. Opportunities exist to enhance the creativity of schoolchildren, particularly in movement-based subjects such as physical education (PE). In this pilot study, we investigated the effect of a six-week dance-based PE intervention on children's creativity in a…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Physical Education, Elementary School Students, Movement Education
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Jane E. Sanders; Hazel Antia; Esther Bernal; Jessica Landon; Andrew James Reed; Ariel A. Seale; Hayley Sullivan; Emma Sutton; Mary Kay Arundel; Rick Csiernik – Journal of Social Work Education, 2023
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools from elementary to post-secondary suddenly shifted to remote learning, placing a heavy burden on parents and caregivers. Likewise, social work practicum placements pivoted to remote learning, compounding existing difficulties securing practicum opportunities. This article describes a response to these…
Descriptors: Social Work, COVID-19, Pandemics, Pilot Projects
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Trowsdale, Jo; McKenna, Ursula; Francis, Leslie J. – Research in Education, 2021
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…
Descriptors: Creativity Tests, Creativity, Teacher Attitudes, Observation
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Maxwell, Bronwen; Stevens, Anna; Demack, Sean; Coldwell, Mike; Wolstenholme, Claire; Reaney-Wood, Sarah; Stiell, Bernadette; Lortie-Forgues, Hugues – Education Endowment Foundation, 2021
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)'s mission is to break the link between family income and educational achievement. This is achieved through summarising the best available evidence in plain language, generating new evidence of 'what works' to improve teaching and learning, and supporting teachers and school leaders to use research evidence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Bragg, Sara; Ponsford, Ruth; Meiksin, Rebecca; Lohan, Maria; Melendez-Torres, G. J.; Hadley, Alison; Young, Honor; Anne Barter, Christine; Taylor, Bruce; Bonell, Chris – British Educational Research Journal, 2022
Evidence from intervention evaluations suggests that achieving meaningful and lasting social, behavioural and attitudinal change from relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) in schools requires more than just a curriculum. Whole-school approaches appear particularly promising since they work at multiple levels. For instance, they may:…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Professional Identity, Foreign Countries, Intervention
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Ovenden-Hope, Tanya; Blandford, Sonia; Cain, Tim; Maxwell, Bronwen – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2018
Teacher recruitment and retention is an international challenge. In England the government have reported that more teachers leave before retirement age than five years ago, 30% within five years and schools are finding it difficult to fill posts with quality teachers . This paper evaluates the contribution of the research-informed RETAIN Early…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
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Arico, F.; Gillespie, H.; Lancaster, S.; Ward, N.; Ylonen, A. – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2018
'Learning gain' has become an increasingly prominent concept in debates about the effectiveness of higher education across OECD countries. In England, interest has been heightened by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)'s major research initiative on learning gain, launched in 2015, and by the new Teaching Excellence Framework…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Higher Education, Achievement Gains, Foreign Countries
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Wishart, J. M.; Wakley, G. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2017
This paper reports an interdisciplinary research (IDR) initiative conducted by two lecturers from different university faculties who found they shared an interest in using animations to support teaching and learning. The research comprised an exploratory pilot to test the feasibility, and to explore the impact on learning, of having undergraduates…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Research, Animation, Undergraduate Students
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Soukakou, Elena; Evangelou, Maria; Holbrooke, Becki – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2018
Research has highlighted that children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) might be at risk of receiving less-than-outstanding experiences in settings typically rated as outstanding. There are still significant barriers to the implementation of high-quality inclusive practices in early years settings: inadequate preparation of early educators for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Professional Development, Profiles
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Lindorff, Ariel; Sammons, Pam – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2018
In this paper, we extend a mixed method (MM) approach to lesson observation and analysis used in previous research in England, combining multiple structured observation instruments and qualitative field notes, to provide a framework for studying three videotaped lessons from 3rd-grade US mathematics classrooms. Two structured observation schedules…
Descriptors: Observation, Classroom Observation Techniques, Mixed Methods Research, Video Technology
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