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Covering the gaps: Teaching assistants, lesson cover, workforce pressure and displaced support in mainstream schools

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the deployment of teaching assistants (TAs) to cover classes in place of teachers in mainstream schools. Drawing on survey data from over 8000 support staff in England, the analysis focuses on the scale, character, reported reasons and consequences of TA‐led cover. The article conceptualises lesson cover as a site through
Rob Webster
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking point: Identifying the factors that predict suspension from school

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract School suspensions are associated with adverse educational and psychosocial outcomes, yet little is known about how structural disadvantage, relational factors, health behaviours, well‐being indicators and school‐level factors jointly predict suspension risk in England.
Stephanie Cahill   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The ecology of hope: Building rainbows in education systems

open access: yesBritish 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
wiley   +1 more source

A beacon of inclusion for our whole community: Examining a civic university through the lens of LGBTQ+ inclusion

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This exploratory article explores how one UK university sought to understand and enhance its engagement with the local LGBTQ+ community. Drawing on poststructuralist queer and homonormative theories and civic university frameworks, the study analyses data from a community‐facing Pride survey completed by 53 LGBTQ+ individuals. Through emergent
Catherine Lee, Daniel Burman
wiley   +1 more source

Looking for hopeful purpose in England's environmental education policy: An analysis of the National Education Nature Park

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The intertwined crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation represent profound global challenges. Education holds a unique role in enabling all young people to navigate uncertainty, participate meaningfully in decision‐making and contribute to more just and sustainable ways of living.
Julie Robinson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How curriculum modifications shape educational pathways: Evidence from linked administrative data in Switzerland

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The increasing heterogeneity of learning needs and preconditions in inclusive mainstream classrooms entails that not all learners are equally able to meet the regular learning objectives. In response, various integrative measures have been implemented to tailor instruction to students' individual needs.
Robin Benz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global aspirations and local limitations: Employment experience of Nigerian international students in the United Kingdom

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Nigeria is the UK's third largest market for higher education, but there is limited empirical research on Nigerian international students' employment experiences. Drawing on the concepts of neo‐racism and agency, this research explores how 25 Nigerian international students exercise their agency to pursue or refrain from seeking employment ...
Ming Cheng   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the margins of silence: Pride Groups as opportunities for student voice

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Student voice and participation are widely promoted within educational research and policy; however, the voices of LGBT+ students, and the systems through which they might meaningfully participate, remain under‐theorised. Drawing on scholarship that conceptualises voice as multimodal and symbolic, and on literature that understands silence as ...
Adam Brett, Jo Brassington
wiley   +1 more source

Hide and seek: Pedagogic discourse and the hidden curriculum in the secondary music classroom

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The selective recontextualisation of musical knowledge from societal practice into educational content—mediated by diverse political and pedagogical influences—is neither ideologically neutral nor epistemically determinate. Rather, the reframing of ‘horizontal’ musical intuition into ‘vertical’ musical conceptualisation within the secondary ...
Elizabeth H. MacGregor, Eliam Lau
wiley   +1 more source

The opportunity state and governing by benefits: Economic governmentality in Hong Kong's national education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract National education in Hong Kong, understood here as a suite of state‐led curricular, co‐curricular and public‐pedagogy measures designed to cultivate national identity, constitutional loyalty and alignment with national development, has become a major focus of educational reform since 2020.
Jason Cong Lin
wiley   +1 more source

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