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Multilingual story-telling by children and for children
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, our Family Language Policy research team (Prof Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen and Dr Jing Huang) ran a 'Multilingual Story-telling for Children by Children' event at the Bath Central library on the 3rd...
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New Publication: "Learning-centred parental engagement: Freire reimagined
Goodall, Janet. 2017. "Learning-centred parental engagement: Freire reimagined." Educational Review:1-19. doi: 10.1080/00131911.2017.1358697. Many years ago, Paulo Freire was one of a group of writers who insisted that we look at our processes of schooling differently, that we examine the power...
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New Publication: Identity construction in learning English academic writing in a Japanese university.
Published, July 2017 Abstract The construction of writer identity in English L2 academic writing is not usually explicitly addressed in such writing classrooms, yet it plays a significant role for English L2 students learning to write in academic genres. This...
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GE2017 and Education: a policy ‘battle royale’
Professor Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education and Political Economy at the University of Bath The general election provided an opportunity for the political parties to demonstrate a vision for the future of education. In the recent past, more has...
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New Book: The Dutch Way in Education: Teach, learn and lead the Dutch Way
The Dutch Way - Teach, Lead and Learn the Dutch Way Authors: Alma Harris and Michelle Jones The global interest in high performing education systems shows no signs of slowing down. The simple and persuasive argument of ‘borrowing from the...
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Book Chapter: Understanding Emotions in Mathematical Thinking and Learning
By Janet Goodall, Sue Johnston-Wilder and Rosemary Russel Editors: Ulises Xolocotzin eBook ISBN: 9780128024898 Hardcover ISBN: 9780128022184 Published Date: 26th May 2017 Available online at - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012802218400011X In our chapter (Chapter 11) in this edited work, we build on ideas of mathematical resilience, that...
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New Publication: Teachers in international schools: a neglected ‘middling actor’ in expatriation
This paper is in a special edition of the Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, within the International Human Resource Management (IHRM) field. It introduces, for the first time in IHRM research, the rapidly growing body...
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Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Parental Engagement with Children’s Learning
This book, due to be published by Routledge in the spring, examines the issues around the achievement gap between children from different socioeconomic backgrounds. This gap is larger in the UK than in many other places, and seemingly implacable; one...
