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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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Bottom-up versus Top-down Campaigning at the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015
The Scottish independence referendum of 2014 saw one of the longest political campaigns in modern UK politics. The referendum saw the formation of a hybrid Yes campaign that combined modern campaigning techniques with a large, activist grassroots that ...
Peter Lynch
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The 1972 miners' strike: popular agency and industrial politics in Britain [PDF]

, 2006
The national miners' strike of 1972 is central to contemporary British history: it undermined Edward Heath's Conservative government and sharpened social conflict; the common interpretation of the strike as a 'victory for violence', shown here to be ...
Phillips, J.
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“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
wiley   +1 more source

Reading list: 6 essential books on Scotland and the Scottish independence referendum [PDF]

, 2014
The Scottish independence referendum will take place on Thursday 18 September 2014. With the UK party leaders campaigning hard in Scotland this week for a “No” vote, we round up some essential reading on Scottish ...
Book Reviews, LSE
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‘These reforms have teeth’: The affective dimensions of teacher education policy enactment

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The affective dimensions of education policy enactment have often received less attention in the research literature, especially regarding teacher education policy. This article reports on a study of the affective responses of university‐based teacher educators in England to the significant initial teacher education reforms of 2019–2022: the ...
Ian Cushing, Viv Ellis
wiley   +1 more source

A Parliament of Novels: the Politics of Scottish Fiction 1979-1999

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2006
The resurgence of Scottish literature at the end of the twentieth century took place in a troubled period of Scotland’s political and economic history, following 1979’s failed devolution referendum.
David Leishman
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Re‐thinking teachers' professional development: An analysis of National Professional Qualifications for school leaders in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers how teachers' professional development could be redeveloped to help address the current crisis in teacher recruitment and retention by offering greater intellectual rigour and more opportunities for intellectual growth. Our analysis is focused on the UK government's current policy for leadership development in schools in
Mark Innes, Elizabeth Gregory, Louisa Dawes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Substantiating a political public sphere in the Scottish press : a comparative analysis [PDF]

, 2006
This article uses content analysis to characterize the performance of the media in a national public sphere, by setting apart those qualities that typify internal press coverage of a political event. The article looks at the coverage of the 1999 devolved
Allan, S., Bell, A., Boorstin, D. J., Bromley, M., Connell, L., Crystal, D., Dahlgren, P., Deacon, D., Deutsch, K. W., Devine, T. M., Diller, H. J., Evans, H., Fairclough, N., Fowler, R., Franklin, B., Franklin, B., Galtung, J., Gans, H. J., Garnham, N., Habermas, J., Habermas, J., Habermas, J., Hallin, D. C., Hartley, J., Hicks, W., Hodge, R., Hutt, A., Jefferson, T., Kress, G., Lewis Taylor, C., Macdonald, M., McCrone, D., McNair, B., McNair, B., Michael Higgins, Negrine, R., Negrine, R., Palmer, J., Schlesinger, P., Schlesinger, P., Schlesinger, P., Schlesinger, P., Schudson, M., Smith, M., Thompson, J. B., Tuchman, G., Van Dijk, T. A., Van Dijk, T. A., Williams, R.   +48 more
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A pipeline crisis or a sustainability crisis? Local and national succession planning for headteachers in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recruiting and retaining school leaders is a challenge in many systems worldwide. Previous research has identified three distinct ways in which succession planning can be conceptualised and approached: a ‘pipeline’ approach seeks to match supply and demand for the posts that need filling; a ‘pool’ strategy involves proactively identifying and ...
Toby Greany, Pat Thomson, Tom Perry, Mike Collins   +3 more
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