This thesis explores why a group of young people with level 3 qualifications, living within traditionally working-class communities, choose not to participate in HE. It discusses their expectations, motivations and aspirations and the social, cultural and personal factors that c…
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This thesis analyses how the extensive use of networked computers, which were the primary classroom learning resource for three Level 3 cohorts of Further Education students, impacted on how the students approached the academic elements of their coursework. Using an ethnographic…
The South African classroom music curriculum has changed in the twenty years since the transition from apartheid to democracy in 1994. The broad imperative for the main music education policy shifts is a political agenda of social transformation and reconciliation. Policy aims a…
Social, emotional and behavioural aspects of development are key to children’s overall development. A failure to develop normally in any one of these areas can have far reaching consequences, affecting the child’s ability to learn and to develop relationships with peers, potenti…
This thesis analyzes the experiences, perceptions and views of a group of newly graduated teachers in post-conflict Tripoli, Libya. The focus of the study was on the first year teachers of English as a foreign language EFL and the aim was to gain an insight into those teachers‘ …
This thesis presents a quasi-longitudinal investigation of the lived experiences of Children's Service professionals in the period between the introduction of the 2004 Children Act to 2012: a period of public service austerity. The aim of the research was to gain an understandin…
Extensive guidance is currently available regarding how best to support the needs of pupils experiencing SEBD. However restricted guidance is currently available which specifically relates to effective practice within SEBD special schools. The aim of the current research was to …
This submission comprises seven papers and a connecting document that have utilised the voices of 75 individuals to capture the lived experiences from children, parents, students and practitioners in relation to inclusive practices and barriers to inclusion across a range of edu…
In 2004 the Gambian Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (MoBSE) policy (2004) highlighted the necessity of shifting from traditional teacher - centred to student - centred approaches, to improve teaching quality and help students to acquire high order thinking. In order to…
In today's world, programming teachers perform tedious tasks, which are time consuming; for instance, preparing and marking daily assignments, preparing and marking programming projects, preparing and marking short exams, etc. These tasks distract programming teachers from fulfi…
Although artistic practices have been shown to have value for intercultural education in contexts such as community projects, research into the use of these methods for Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy (CICP) in HE is scarce. This reflexive, interpretivist practitio…
In this dissertation I set out to apply Martha Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach to an exploration of the work of Education Support Professionals (ESPs) in the United States. ESPs are the non-teaching/non-administrative staff in schools. They are the clerical staff, the custodian…
This thesis consists of three essays that investigate inequality within the household with a particular focus on the effects of intra-household resource allocation and informal child fostering on the welfare of children. The first essay estimates individual resource shares withi…
How do learners of Chinese as a second language acquire characters? When and how do initial L2 Chinese learners build the phonological, semantic and orthographic representations of the graphics? My research investigated the very earliest stages of learning Chinese and the effect…
The thesis examines the beliefs about education and society of the following groups of people:- 1. Teacher trainers in College and University Departments of Education. 2. Students in one College of Education training for posts in secondary schools (3 and 4 year courses). 3. Teac…
This study explores the impact of government-driven change (DfEE, 198; DfES, 2006, DCSF, 2008; DfE, 2017b), within a sector largely comprising privately owned and managed organisations, on how individual practitioners understand their role and their professional identity. Workfo…
This study is conducted in the global contexts of policy calls for more men to work in early childhood education and care (ECEC) and of concerns over the assumed ‘feminisation’ of ECEC. The overarching aim is to critically interrogate whether men should be encouraged to work in …
This study is a mixed-method analysis of church participation as a direct intercultural encounter in the experiences of non-Christian Chinese international students in the UK. Its setting in a religious context makes the whole research unique among research on the topic of inter…
Cyberbullying has become increasingly problematic over the past decade with extreme instances of young people committing suicide due to their victimisation. While the prevalence of cyberbullying along with its effects have been researched and identified, the theoretical underpin…