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Flexible working and professional relationships in schools: An ecological approach
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In English schools, the policy environment has recently moved considerably in favour of teachers taking planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time away from the school site as one approach to flexible working in support of teacher retention.
Victoria Cook +3 more
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Speculative Mimesis in Fantasy Literature
With perceptions of reality in the 21st-century increasingly seen as pluralistic and a matter of interpretation, this open access book identifies fantasy literature as a uniquely and highly effective form of storytelling for engaging with our ...
Kraatila, Elise
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The global teacher shortage continues to intensify, with disparate impacts across geographic and socio‐economic communities. In Queensland, Australia, where this study originates, post‐COVID teacher shortages have intensified workforce pressures, leaving several regional, rural and remote schools as some of the ‘hardest‐to‐staff’ in the ...
Matthew Readette +5 more
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Conference Report: GIFCon 2021: Beyond the Anglocentric Fantastic
Fafnir, 2022 Organised from Scotland and taking place online, this year’s Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations conference (also known as GIFCon) was titled “Beyond the Anglocentric Fantastic”.
Eero Suoranta
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Bricks, knots, and bodies: Material encounters and the affective making of masculinity
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines how creative research methods do not just capture boys' experiences of masculinity, but actively materialise them. Drawing on two arts‐based activities used in school‐based fieldwork (a mannequin‐based exercise with one participant and a Lego‐building workshop with a small peer group), the paper analyses how materials ...
Huw Berry‐Downs
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Are daily fantasy sports gambling?
Journal of Sports Analytics, 2019 Millions of people play daily fantasy sports in the hopes of winning money. The two largest daily fantasy sports companies, FanDuel ® and DraftKings ® process billions of dollars in entry fees every year.
Todd Easton, Sarah Newell
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Extending hot authentication: Imagining fantasy space
, 2021 Fantasy fiction inspires many tourists to seek out and explore sites associated with the originality and inspiration of the production of texts. This paper investigates how both tourists and tourism providers infuse their authentication of urban legends ...
Lovell, J., Thurgill, J.
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The ecology of hope: Building rainbows in education systems
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Hope is frequently invoked in education, yet rarely theorised. Where it has been theorised, it has been understood in two largely separate ways: as an individual psychological capacity, in the positive‐psychology tradition and as a critical‐emancipatory stance, in the pedagogy of hope.
Jennifer Achari
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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N
S. Weiss +6 more
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Religion in fantasy: propaganda, blasphemy or nonsense?
, 2017 When we consider the extreme reactions elicited amongst religious groups in the US by the likes of the Harry Potter (1997-2007) books and The Golden Compass (2007) movie (calls for books to be removed from school libraries, street protests outside ...
Dalton, A.
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