Publications 2008

The Graduate School of Education is one of the largest in the country, embracing a considerable variety of research activity, from large-scale externally funded programmes to small-scale collaborations with local teachers.

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Books

• Burn, R.P.  (eds) (2008). Coming to know: the introduction of new concepts in undergraduate mathematics. MSOR Network, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, UK: The Higher Education Academy; Maths, Stats and OR Network.
• Craft, A., Cremin, T. & Burnard, P.  (eds) (2008). Creative Learning 3-11. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham.
• Craft, A., Gardner, H. & Claxton, G.  (eds) (2008). Creativity, Wisdom and Trusteeship: Exploring the Role of Education.Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
• Jendli, A., Coombe, C. & Troudi, S.  (eds) (2008). Best Practice in English Language Teaching. Dubai: TESOL Arabia Publications.
• Mansour, N.  (2008). Models of Understanding Science Teachers' Beliefs and Practices: Challenges and Potentials for Science Education.  Saarbrücken: vdm Verlag.
• Martin, F. & Owens, P.  (2008). Caring for our World: ESD for 4-8 year olds.  Sheffield: Geographical Association.
• Paige-Smith, A. & Craft, A.  (eds) (2008). Developing Reflective Practice in the Early Years. Buckingham: Open University Press.
• Wood, E.  (eds) (2008). The Routledge Reader in Early Childhood Education. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Young, S.  (2008). Music 3-5.  London: Routledge.

Journal Articles

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• Allan, A., Atkinson, E., Brace, E., DePalma, R. & Hemingway, J.  (2008). Speaking the unspeakable in forbidden places: addressing lesbian, gay,bisexual and transgender equality in the primary school.  Sex Education 8(3), 315-328.
• Aylward, K. & Freathy, R.  (2008). Children's conceptions of Jesus.  Journal of Beliefs and Values 29(3), 297-304.
• Aylward, K. & Freathy, R.  (2008). Children's conceptions of Jesus.  Journal of Beliefs and Values 29(3), 297-304.
• Bowker, R.  (2008). Survive & Thrive: An educational programme exploring the powerful mix of outdoor pursuits, deep immersion in nature and environmental understanding..  Environmental Education 87, 33-35.
• Bowker, R.  (2008). Seeing into the Rainforest.  Primary Science Review 103, 29-31.
• Bowker, R.  (2008). The Science of Sailing.  Primary Science Review 102, 9-12.
• Burden, R.L.  (2008). Is dyslexia necessarily associated with negative feelings of self-worth? A review and implications for future research..  Dyslexia 14(3), 188-196.
• Burn, R.P.  (2008). The Shape of the Stamp problem.  Mathematics in School 37(1).
• Burn, R.P.  (2008). Trisecting angles by paper-folding.  Mathematics Teaching 206.
• Burn, R.P.  (2008). Friezes.  Mathematics Teaching 211.
• Chappell, K.  (2008). Towards Humanisng Creativity? .  UNESCO Observatory E-Journal 1(3).
• Chappell, K.  (2008). Mediating creativity and performativity policy tensions in dance education-based action research partnerships: insights from a mentor's self-study.  Thinking Skills and Creativity 3(2), 94-103.
• Chappell, K., Craft, A., Burnard, P. & Cremin, T.  (2008). Question-posing & question-responding at the heart of possibility thinking in the early years..  Early Years 28(3), 267.
• Colman, A.M., Pulford, B. & Rose, J.  (2008). Collective rationality in interactive decisions: Evidence for Team Reasoning..  Acta Psychologica 128, 387-397.
• Colman, A.M., Pulford, B.D. & Rose, J.  (2008). Team reasoning and collective rationality: Piercing the veil of obviousness.  Acta Psychologica 128, 409-412.
• Craft, A., Chappell, K. & Twining, P.  (2008). Learners reconceptualising education: widening participation through creative engagement.  Journal of Innovation in Education and Teaching International 45(3), 235-245.
• Cunliffe, L.  (2008). A case study of an extra-curricular school activity designed to promote learning.  International Journal of Education Through Art 4(1), 91-105.
• Cunliffe, L.  (2008). Using assessment to nurture knowledge-rich creativity.  Innovations in Education and Teaching International 45(3), 309-317.
• Fisher, R. & Larkin, S.  (2008). Pedagogy or Ideological Struggle? An Examination of Pupils’ and Teachers’ Expectations for Talk in the Classroom.  Language and Education 22(1), 1-16.
• Fisher, R. & Larkin, S.  (2008). Pedagogy or Ideological Struggle: An Examination of Pupils' and Teachers' expectations for Talk in the Classroom.  Language in Education, 22 (1) 1-16.
• Freathy, R.J.K.  (2008). The Triumph of Religious Education for Citizenship in English Schools, 1935-1949.  History of Education 37(2), 295-316.
• Freathy, R.J.K.  (2008). Three Perspectives on Religious Education and Education for Citizenship in English Schools, 1934-1944.  British Journal of Religious Education 30(2), 103-112.
• Gillen, J., Littleton, K., Twiner, A., Kleine Staarman, J. & Mercer, N  (2008). Using the interactive whiteboard to resource continuity and support multimodal teaching in a primary science classroom.  Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 24(4), 348-358.
• Hayes, S., Capel, S., Katene, W. & Cook, P.  (2008). An examination of knowledge prioritisation in secondary physical education teacher education courses..  Teaching and Teacher Education 24(2), 330-342.
• Haynes, G.S.  (2008). Secondary headteachers' experiences and perceptions of vocational courses in the Key Stage 4 curriculum.  Journal of Education and work 21(4), 333-347.
• Hodkinson, P & Macleod, F  (2008). Mixing Methods and Blending Data: The case of researching learning.  Building Research Capacity Issue(14), 7-9.
• Holden, C., Joldoshalieva, R. & Shamatov, D.  (2008). 'I would like to say that things must just get better': Young citizens from England, Kyrgyzstan and South Africa speak out..  Citizenship Teaching and Learning 4(2), 6-17.
• Jones, S.  (2008). Challenging stereotypes: allowing boys and girls to thrive.  Curriculum Briefing 6(3).
• Lenehan, C., Jones, G., Hack, E., Riddell, S. & Norwich, B.  (2008). Individual budgets and direct payments: issues, challenges and future implications for the strategic management of SEN.  Journal of Research in Special Educational 8(3), 124-139.
• MacDonald, M.N. & Spiro, J.  (2008). ‘Read Write’: Assessing cultural awareness and creativity in literary response..  Literature, Media & Cutural Studies 32(1), 21-27.
• Macleod, F.  (2008). Why fathers are not attracted to family learning groups.  Early Child Development and Care, 773-783.
• Macleod, F. & Lambe, P.  (2008). Dynamics of adult participation in part time education and training: results from the British Household Panel Survey.  Research Papers in Education 23(2), 231-241.
• Mansour, N.  (2008). Religious beliefs: A hidden variable in the performance of science teachers in the classroom.  European Educational Research Journal 7(4), 557-576.
• Martin, F  (2008). Mutual Learning: The impact of a study visit course on teachers’ knowledge and understanding of global partnerships.  Critical Literacy: Theories and Practice 2(1), 60-75.
• Martin, F  (2008). Knowledge Bases for Effective Teaching: Beginning Teachers Development As Teachers of Primary Geography..  International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 17(1), 13-39.
• Martin, F.  (2008). Ethnogeography: towards liberatory geography education.  Children's Geographies 6(4).
• Monsour, N.  (2008). The experiences and Personal Religious Beliefs of Egyptian science teachers as a framework for understanding the shaping and reshaping of their beliefs and practices about Science-Technology-Society (STS).  International Journal of Science Education 30(12), 1605-1634.
• Myhill, D.A.  (2008). Towards a Linguistic Model of Sentence Development in Writing..  Language and Education 22(5), 271-288.
• Norwich, B.  (2008). Dilemmas of difference and the identification of special educational needs / disability: international perspectives.  British Educational Research Journal, 23, 4, 287-307.
• Norwich, B.  (2008). Dilemmas of difference, inclusion and disability: international perspectives on placement.  European Journal of Special Needs Education, 23, 4, 287-304.
• Norwich, B.  (2008). What future for special schools and inclusion? conceptual and professional perspectives. .  British Journal of Special Education, 35, 3, 136-144.
• Osberg, D.C.  (2008). The Politics in Complexity.  Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies 6(1), iii-xiv.
• Osberg, D.C.  (2008). The Logic of Emergence. An Alternative Conceptual Space for Theorizing Critical Education.  Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies 6(1), 133-161.
• Osberg, D.C. & Biesta, G.J.J.  (2008). The Emergent Curriculum: Navigating a Complex Course Between Unguided Learning and Planned Enculturation.  Journal of Curriculum Studies 40(3), 313-328.
• Osberg, D.C., Biesta, G.J.J. & Cilliers, P.  (2008). From Representation to Emergence: Complexity’s Challenge to the Epistemology of Schooling.  Educational Philosophy and Theory 40(1), 213-229.
• Osberg, D.C., Doll, W.E-Jr., & Trueit, D.  (2008). Gatekeepers of a Complex Field?.  Complicity:An International Journal of Complexity and Education 5(1), iii-ix.
• Postlethwaite, K.  (2008). Differentiation: research and resources for all students including those with special needs and talents.  Education in Science(228), 26-27.
• Quinn, J., Lawy, R. & Diment, K.  (2008). 'Dead end kids in dead end jobs'? Reshaping debates on young people in jobs without training..  Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 13(2) pp. 185-194.
• Richardson, W. & Freathy, R.  (2008). A Pilot Project for Exe Libris: The UK History of Education Society On-line Bibliography.  History of Education Researcher 82, 116-122.
• Rose, J. & Reynolds, D.  (2008). Teachers' continuing professional development: rooting practice in the classroom..  International Journal of Management in Education 2(1), 14-29.
• Schäfer, N. & Yarwood, R.  (2008). Involving young people as researcher: uncovering multiple power relations among youth..  Children's Geographies 6(2), 121-135.
• Seddon, K., Skinner, N. & Postlethwaite, K.  (2008). Creating a model to examine motivation for sustained engagement in online communities ..  Education and Information Technologies 13(1), 17-34.
• Seddon, K., Skinner, N. & Postlethwaite, K.  (2008). Creating a model to examine motivation for sustained engagement in online communities ..  Education and Information Technologies 13(1), 17-34.
• Sharp, J.G., Bowker, R. & Bryne, J.  (2008). VAK or VAK-uous? Towards the trivialisation of learning and the death of scholarship!.  Research Papers in Education 23(3), 293 -314.
• Tedder, M., Jones, P. & Mauger, S.  (2008). Listening to Learners.  Adults Learning 19(10), 24-26.
• Velija, P., Capel, S., Katene, W. & Hayes, S.  (2008). Does knowing stuff like PSHE and citizenship make me a better teacher? Student teachers in the teacher training figuration..  European Physical Education Review 14(3), 389-406.
• Wegerif, R.  (2008). Dialogic or Dialectic? The significance of ontological assumptions in research on Educational Dialogue.  British Educational Research Journal 34(3), 347-361.
• Young, S.  (2008). Collaboration between three- and four-year-olds in self-initiated play with instruments.  International Journal of Educational Research 47(1), 3-10.
• Young, S.  (2008). Lullaby light shows: everyday musical experience among under two-year-olds..  International Journal of Music Education 26(1), 33-46.

Chapters in Books

• Al Kamil, I. & Troudi, S.  (2008). Can theory help us understand the nature of writing challenges? In C.Coombe, A.Jendli & P.Davidson (eds) Teaching Writing Skills in EFL: Theory, Research and Pedagogy (pp. 3-15). Dubai: TESOL Arabia Publications.
• Avramidis, E., Bayliss, P. & Burden, R.  (2008). Inclusion in action: an in-depth case study of an effective secondary school in the Southwest of England.  In P.Hick & G.Thomas (eds) Inclusion and Diversity in Education London: Sage Publications.
• Biesta, G.J.J. & Tedder, M.  (2008). Learning from life in the learning economy: The role of narrative.  In J.Crowther, V.Edwards, V.Galloway, M.Shaw & L.Tett (eds) Whither adult education in the learning paradigm SCUTREA.
• Chappell, K.  (2008). Facilitating creative learning in dance education in Craft, A., Cremin, T. & Burnard, P. (Eds), Creative Learning 3-11 and How We Document It: What How & Why? In Trentham.
• Chappell, K.  (2008). Embodied Narratives.  In R.Levinson, H.Nicholson & S.Parry (eds) Creative Encounters: New conversations in science, education and the arts. (pp. 160-173). London: Wellcome Trust.
• Craft, A.  (2008). Tensions in Creativity and Education: Enter Wisdom and Trusteeship? In A.Craft, H.Gardner & G.Claxton (eds) Creativity, Wisdom and Trusteeship: Exploring the Role of Education. (pp. 16-34). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
• Craft, A., Gardner, H. & Claxton, G.  (2008). Nurturing Creativity, Wisdom and Trusteeship in Education: A Collective Debate. In A.Craft, H.Gardner & G.Claxton (eds) Creativity, Wisdom and Trusteeship: Exploring the Role of Education. (pp. 1-13). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
• Craft, A., Gardner, H. & Claxton, G.  (2008). Concluding Thoughts: Good Thinking - Education for Wise Creativity. In A.Craft, H.Gardner & G.Claxton (eds) Creativity, Wisdom and Trusteeship: Exploring the Role of Education. (pp. 168-176). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
• Cunliffe, L.  (2008). Painting.  In Wolfgang & Donsbach (eds) The International Encyclopedia of Communication .
• Dillon, P.  (2008). Creativity, wisdom and trusteeship – niches of cultural production.  In A.Craft, H.Gardner & G.Claxton (eds) Creativity, Wisdom and Trusteeship: Exploring the Role of Education. (pp. 105-118). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
• Freathy, R.  (2008). Religious education.  In G.McCulloch & D.Crook (eds) The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education. London: Routledge.
• Freathy, R.  (2008). Religious assembly.  In G.McCulloch & D.Crook (eds) The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education. London: Routledge.
• Freathy, R.  (2008). Religious school.  In G.McCulloch & D.Crook (eds) The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education. London: Routledge.
• Hunt, C.  (2008). In our end is our beginning: Spirituality and the role of the adult educator.  In J.Crowther, V.Edwards, V.Galloway, M.Shaw & L.Tett (eds) Whither adult education in the learning paradigm (pp. 303-310). Edinburgh: SCUTREA.
• Larkin, S.  (2008). Metacognition: becoming conscious of thinking.  In P.Adey (ed.) Let's Think Handbook. A Guide to Cognitive Acceleration in the Primary School (pp. 33-43). London: .
• Lawy, R. & Tedder, M.  (2008). ‘Meeting standards: teacher training in the learning and skills sector’. Whither the agency of teacher educators? In J.Crowther, V.Edwards, V.Galloway, M.Shaw & L.Tett (eds) Whither adult education in the learning paradigm SCUTREA.
• Lunt, I. & Norwich, B.  (2008). Inclusive and effective schools: challenges and tensions. In P.Hick, R.Kershner & P.Farrell (eds) Psychology for inclusive education: new directions in theory and practice (pp. 96-107). London: Routledge.
• Macleod, F., Macmillan, P. & Norwich, B.  (2008). Improving oracy and literacy among children who fall behind.  In R.Evans & D.Jones (eds) Metacognitive Approaches to Developing Oracy (pp. 65-76). London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
• Maynard, J. & Troudi, S.  (2008). Female Emirati students' perceptions of using a chat room to learn English. In P.Davidson, J.Shewell & W.J.Moore (eds) Educational Technology in the Arabian Gulf: Theory, Research and Pedagogy (pp. 249-262). Dubai: TESOL Arabia Publications.
• Norwich, B.  (2008). Perspectives and purposes of disability classification systems: implications for teachers and curriculum and pedagogy.  In L.Florian & M.McClaughlin (eds) Classification in Special Education Thousand Oaks, CA.: Corwin Press.
• Norwich, B.  (2008). Children in care and the multi-disciplinary work of educational; psychologists.  In AEP (ed.) Educational psychologists in multi-disciplinary settings. (pp. 117-186). Durham: .
• Osberg, D.C., Biesta, G. & Cilliers, P.  (2008). From Representation to Emergence: Complexity’s Challenge to the Epistemology of Schooling. In M.Mason (ed.) Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education (pp. 204-217). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Robinson, W.  (2008). The Case in England and Wales.  In T.O'Donoghue & C.Whitehead (eds) Teacher Education in the English-Speaking World: Past, Present and Future (pp. 45-60). Charlotte, NC, USA: .
• Troudi, S.  (2008). Reflecting on action research. In A. Jendli. C. Coombe and S. Troudi (Eds), Best practice in English language teaching (pp. 433-445). In Dubai: TESOL Arabia Publications.
• Wegerif, R.  (2008). Reason and Dialogue in Education.  In B. Van Oers, W. Wardekker, E. Elbers & R. Van der Veer (eds) The Transformation of Learning (pp. 273-286). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Wegerif, R., Boero, P., Andriessen, J. & Forman, E.  (2008). A dialogue on dialogue and its place within education. In T.Dreyfuss, R.Hershkowitz & B.Schwarz (eds) Transforming Knowledge in Classroom Interaction Routledge.

Other publications

• Alebaikan, R. & Troudi, S.  (2008). Challenges of implementing blended learning in Saudi Arabia in International conference on Technology, communication and Education.  (pp. 380-385). Kuwait: The Arab Science and Technology Foundation.
• Asterhan, C.; Wichmann, A.; Mansour, N.; Wegerif, R.; Hever, R.; Schwarz, B. & Williams, M.   (2008). Evaluation report on the pedagogical content of ARGUNAUT system.   D6.3, Argunaut, Project number: 027728, a Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme: .
• Asterhan, H.; Mansour, N. & Wichmann, A  (2008). Tools for the final evaluation phase.   Annex to D6.2, Project number: 027728, a Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme: .
• Aylward, K.  (2008).  Review of Rosen, S., The Hidden Glory of India.  in RE Today 25(3).
• Biesta, G.J.J., Lawy, R., McDonnell, J., Lawy, H. & Reeves, H.  (2008). The art of democracy: gallery education and young people’s democratic learning. In 02 Inspiring learning in galleries. Research Reports.   02 Inspiring Learning in Galleries: Research Reports: .
• Burn, R.P.  (2008). Towards a definition of limit in E.Barbin, N.Stehlikova, C.Tzanakis (eds) Proceedings of the fifth European Summer University on the History and Epistemology of Mathematics.  (pp. 181-191). Plzen, Prague, Czech Republic: .
• Duffy, M., Schaefer, N., Coomber, R., O'Connell, L. & Turnbull, P.J.  (2008). Cannabis supply and young people. 'It's a social thing'.  Final Report of research on cannabis supply and young people which is part of the 'Drug and alcohol research programme' series funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. London: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
• Endler, L., Rose, J. & Norwich, B.  (2008). How do practitioners in the early years use the Common Assessment Framework: an evaluation.  Children Service Workforce Development Council .: .
• Endler, L., Rose, J.R. & Norwich, B.  (2008). How do practitioners in the early years use the Common Assessment framework: an evaluation.   Children Service Workforce Development Council .
• Hunt, C.  (2008).  Review of Ashton, W. & Denton, D., Spirituality, Ethnography, & Teaching: Stories from Within.  Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006 in International Journal of Lifelong Education 27(3), 351-352.
• Murphy, C.  (2008). The use of the Empty Number Line in England and the Netherlands in Figueras, O., Cortina, J., Alatorre, S., Rojano, T. and Sepulveda, A (eds) Proceedings of the Joint Conference PME32-PMENAXXX, Morelia, Mexico, vol4.  (pp. 9-16).
• Myhill, D.A., Fisher, R., Jones, S., Lines, H. & Hicks, A.  (2008). Effective Ways of Teaching Complex Expression in Writing. A Literature Review of Evidence from the Secondary School Phase.  [Research commissioned by The Department for Children, Schools and Families. Research Report No DCSF-RR032] The Department for Children, Schools and Families: .
• Myhill, D.A., Fisher, R., Jones, S., Lines, H. & Hicks, A.  (2008). Effective Ways of Teaching Complex Expression in Writing. A Literature Review of Evidence from the Secondary School Phase. [Research commissioned by The Department for Children, Schools and Families. Research Report No DCSF-RR032]  http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/DCSF-RR032.pdf Exeter: University of Exeter .
• Myhill, D.A., Fisher, R., Jones, S., Lines, H. & Hicks, A.  (2008). Effective Ways of Teaching Complex Expression in Writing. A Literature Review of Evidence from the Secondary School Phase.  [Research commissioned by The Department for Children, Schools and Families. Research Report No DCSF-RR032] The Department for Children, Schools and Families: .
• Norwich, B., Richards, A. & Nash, T.  (2008). Children in care and the multi-disciplinary work of educational psychologists.   Report for the CWDC / AEP .
• Postlethwaite, K. & Haggarty, L.  (2008). Exploring the thinking and learning of mathematics and science student teachers at the end of their training. Conference of the British Educational Research Association: Sept 2008: .
• Quinn, J., Lawy, R. & Diment, K.  (2008). Young People in Jobs without Training in South West England: Not Just 'Dead-end Kids in Dead-end Jobs'.   Research report resulting from 'Jobs without training' (JWT) Project. Funded by the European Social Fund, the Learning and Skills Council and Connexions. Exeter, University of Exeter: South West Learning Intelligence Module (SLIM).
• Rose, J.  (2008). Team Reasoning and Multi-Agency Collaboration.   The British Academy: .
• Waite, S., Boyask, R., Lawson, H. & Carter, R.  (2008). Concepts of diversity in the UK: person-centred methodological approaches to tracking identity formation within education in A. Ross and P. Cunningham (eds) Reflecting on Identities: Research, Practice & Innovation, Proceedings of the tenth Conference of the Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe Thematic Network .  London: CiCe Publications.
• Wegerif, R; Chamrada, M; De laat, M;Williams, M; Mansour, N & Hever, R  (2008). Patterns of interaction and intervention rules.   D5.2, Argunaut, Project number: 027728, a Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme: .