BERA Conference 2014 Abstracts – Main Conference Parallel Session 2
Spotlight Session Presenter: Ian Menter, John Furlong |
Research and the Teaching Profession: Building the Capacity for a Self-Improving Education System | |
2.01 |
Comparative and International Education Culture and the Curriculum |
152 Recognising and respecting the social and educational bricolage of UK Roma Gypsies and Indigenous Australians 278 Globalisation and the emergence of transcultural dispositions of thinking: implications for teaching and learning 688 Critical Discourse Analysis as Curriculum Devleopment in Pacific Island Nations: A Comparative Model for Critical Investigations of Culture and Curriculum |
2.02 |
Creativity in Education Creativity and Change |
487 Researching Creativity Creatively 489 Creative risk taking: the Olympic Legacy and improved attainment in Art |
2.03 |
Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy Learning history part I: The purposes, practices and professional knowledge of history teachers – and how they are developed |
866 What is School History For? The Views of Student Teachers 867 The voice of the profession in the ‘History Wars’: what teachers’ responses reveal about their conceptions of the nature and purpose of history in schools 868 Theorising the pupil cognitive labour discernible in novice and expert history teachers lesson planning 871 Using subject-specific scholarship with trainee secondary history teachers in the practical training context – a hermeneutic – phenomenological study of eight ITE mentors’ practice |
2.04 |
Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy – the contested area of language |
125 The Pedagogical Impact of Early Years Assessment ‘Datafication’ and the Phonics Screening Check 793 Effect of developing critical thinking of middle children in Taiweanese schools applying the Analects of Confucius 372 Growth in Literacy Learning |
2.05 |
Early Childhood Professionalism and professional development |
139 Sustainable learning: Early Years workers reflect on the benefits of vocational training 797 Sustaining early childhood teachers in rural contexts: Understanding perceptions of place and space |
2.06 |
Educational Effectiveness and Improvement Improving schools and universities through technology |
851 Exploring the effectiveness of a model of 21st century learning in Irish second-level classrooms as a catalyst for school reform 224 Exploring the role of digital data in contemporary schools and schooling 150 Information, Communication and Technology in the revolutionisation of teaching and learning in tertiary institution in Nigeria |
2.07 |
Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making Policy, knowledge management and communities of practice |
259 Policy Vacuum in the UK: education. abandoned ‘community cohesion’ and a new model of practice 281 The rise of edu-business: The case of News Corporation and their acquisition of network capital 596 The habitus of elite policy actors and the constitution of the global education policy field 963 Policy Networks in Scottish Education: Implementing the Donaldson Report |
2.08 |
Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making PISA and the politics of education policy: constructing research impact and engagement |
955 ‘The New Orientalism’: Western Images of the East Asian Education Systems as a Source of Policy Borrowing 958 Policy Borrowing from Finnish teacher education: the need for greater communication and synthesis between theory, policy and practice 971 Engaging with PISA data in statisical form: risks and uncertainties in the social construction of numbers 973 Naysayers, heretics and the quest for ‘what works’: Exploring the relationship between comparative research and educational policymaking |
2.09 |
Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making Global education policy and network governance |
454 Policy Networking – nodes, events and brokers in global education policy communities 456 Funding Models, Aid Policy and Social Capitalism: low cost private schools and global education policy 458 Technology, business and discipline 459 Philantocracy: global policy networks, philanthropic governance and that thing called ‘democracy’ |
2.10 |
Higher Education Creating an Educational Epistemology through Living Educational Theories |
074 Transcending colonising influences across cultural boundaries 075 Generating educational knowledge through living-theory Action Research in a Culture of Inquiry 076 Exploring the implications of supporting educational research for developing professional practice 077 Generating Educational Knowledge through Educational Research |
2.11 |
Higher Education Understanding and supporting the learning of postgraduate students |
373 Doctoral student learning in the biomedical sciences is supported by multiple relationship networks. Evidence from two elite, research intensive universities in the UK and US 864 Articulating the reflexive self: relfexivity in postgraduate curriculum |
2.12 |
Higher Education Choosing and belonging to a university |
213 Pathways to Higher Education: the effect of different prior qualifications on institution and field of study 237 How do A level subjects and grades determine university choices? 980 The formation of individual habitus and the experience of first semester students at a post-1992 university |
2.13 |
Inclusive Education Challenging barriers to participation |
056 The Effects of Irregular School Transitions upon Social, Emotional and Educational Outcomes for Military Children 644 Teaching for Life: bridging education, health and social care to understand how to support teachers to be able to meet the needs of pupils with life limiting illnesses in mainstream schools 939 Using Feminist Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality to Explore Black Girls Narratives about the British Educational System 671 Dyslexia: The decision to concel or disclose |
2.14 |
Inclusive Education Exploring leadership roles in inclusive education |
395 ‘The daily moral burdens’ – and investigation into professional identity, routine moral stress and moral agency of local SEN professionals in the wake of Support and Aspiration 641 Implementing inclusive practices in schools: the route to a personal vision through life histories accounts of school leaders in Greece |
2.15 |
Leadership and Management in Education Leadership in relation to professionalism, teacher skills and teacher retention |
683 What, if anything, will replace the Advanced Skills Teacher role in the new era of performance related pay? The views of Experienced Head Teachers and Deputies 943 A new age of professionalism: the move to more innovative practices in leadership? 637 Cracking open the ‘black box’ of teacher retention: How school leaders engage and retain high quality early career teachers 761 ‘A coercive culture of monitoring and a ‘quick fix’ culture of CPD’ |
2.16 |
Literacy and Language Stakeholder views of learning additional languages |
350 Discursive construction of ‘languages’ in a secondary school in the UK and its implications for school 849 Pupils’ attitudes to learning a Modern Foreign Language |
2.17 |
Mathematics Education Teachers of Mathematics |
478 Negotiating contribution to the teaching of secondary mathematics: on identity development of non-specialist mathematics teachers 383 Teacher practices that promote and hinder student engagement in Mathematics 257 Mathematics teacher capacity for principled change |
2.18 |
Mentoring and Coaching Collaborative pedagogy: transforming teacher education in the 21st century |
268 Fifteen years of coteaching and collaborative research and practice 269 The impact of lesson study in transforming teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge and classroom practices 271 The primary school arts education dilemma: coteaching as a possible solution 272 Coteaching as a methodology for developing reflective practice |
2.19 |
New Technologies in Education Virtual worlds and game-based learning |
695 Constructionist Tools for Virtual Worlds 919 Replacing Conventional Classroom Teaching by Constructivist Online Game-based Learning: Will it Work in a Formal School Education? 822 Supporting independent play and social interactions for Students with sever learning difficulties: the role of digital interactive gaming technologies |
2.20 |
Philosophy of Education Emotion, sentiment and educational practice |
148 Why learning to be human requires emotional discipline 197 What ought to be remembered in schools? 1007 Moral ambitions for making a difference beyond the classroom: exploring the notion of ‘education as a moral practice’ with reference to some contemporary concerns about Citizenship Education by policy makers |
2.21 |
Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy Leadership and teachers’ professional development in PESP |
706 The language of performativity? A content analyis concerning differing constructions of leadership for secondary school PE departments 401 Changing teachers beliefs in-class motivating teaching behaviours: Development, effectiveness and underlying mechanisms of a teacher training 907 Teachers experiences engaging in professional development for a Health-Based Physical Education model |
2.22 |
Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy Adventure and innovation in PESP |
795 Adventure Based Learning: Transferring Beyond the Experience 589 Using social media and web-based tools to monitor long-distance professional development in physical education 882 Twitter as youth voice: How do social media sites enable us to listen to young people? |
2.23 |
Post-compulsory and Lifelong Learning Lifelong learning – identity, progession and empowerment |
636 Adult Apprenticeship. identity formation and life stage: An exploration of older apprentices experiences and perceptions 738 Who upgrades to higher level qualifications in mid-life? 465 Exploring the role of lifelong learning in the devleopment of energy literacy for adults |
2.24 |
Race, Ethnicity and Education International perpectives on ‘race’ and ‘race’ theories |
005 Against the Tide: Race Equality Educators in Toronto and London, 1978-2008 312 Formal and Informal Learning as a Radicalised Interrelation – Empirical Perspectives from Germany 330 Just what is Critical Race Theory and what;s it doing in a nice field like education in the Caribbean? |
2.25 |
Science Education Aspects of teacher perspectives in science education |
127 Science teachers views and experiences of working in an urban science department 308 Studying Power and Knowledge in the Technology Classroom: Towards a Conceptual Framework 540 Challenges and changes: Developing teachers understandings of the nature of science |
2.26 |
Social Justice Getting in is not the only hurdle: inequalities in student experience in higher education in an era of ‘universal’ participation |
794 The ‘Academic Challenge’ in Higher Education: intersectional dimensions and unintended affects on pedagogic encounters 843 Not the place for a person like me? How social class shapes the higher education experience of the ‘degree generation’ 886 Space to belong? Under represented students digitally mediated and pedagogic experiences in a research intensive university |
2.27 |
Social Justice Possibilities for social justice through the restructuring of education? |
335 Social inequality in the paradoxical conditions of privatised education 220 Regulating social justice? England’s governance of third and fourth sector schools 256 Education Polity, England 2015: social justice and a self improving schools systems 893 Transformative Education, Critical Education, Marxist Education: Possibilities and Alternatives to the Restructuring of Education in Global Neoliberal/ Neoconservatice Times |
2.28 |
Teacher Education and Development Teacher education in times of change |
887 A rising tide meets a perfect storm: Mapping the impact of new accountabilities in teaching and teacher education in Ireland 904 Changing context, changing landscapes: exploring teacher educators identities in England, Norway and Germany 655 Creating the new, whilst maintaining the old? The School Direct programme and its effects on work in teacher education |
2.29 |
Teacher Education and Development Professional learning during the early career phase |
318 Understanding the Role and Impact of Early Career Teachers Informal Support Networks 749 Exploring beginner teachers wellbeing through the lens of self- determination theory 806 Teacher Induction in Shanghai: Opportunities and challenges for teachers professional learning |
2.30 |
Teacher Education and Development A capability approach to teacher education |
704 Affective Dimensions of School Spaces: a rhizomatic mapping of new men with ASD experiences when navigating Canadian school spaces 808 Teacher Wellbeing: Initial teacher education capability approach 811 Applying a capabilities approach to national literacy curriculum implementation |