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GCSE attainment in alternative provision (AP): A comparison of AP Free Schools and AP Academies

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Alternative provision (AP), in particular Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), have been criticised as a forgotten part of the education system, side‐lined and stigmatised as somewhere only the very worst behaved pupils go. In response to this criticism, PRUs have now been academised to become AP Academies and new AP schools have been set up—AP Free ...
Stephen Hills, Matthew Walker, James Guinn, Aubrey Kent   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting or stifling? Experiences of beginning teachers working within the Early Career Framework

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study discusses the experiences of a group of new teachers in England since the introduction of the Early Career Framework (ECF), against the backdrop of the global teacher recruitment and retention crisis. The experiences of new teachers within the ECF are under‐researched.
Lorna Smith, Nicola Warren‐Lee, Lucy Wenham   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zero-resource Dependency Parsing: Boosting Delexicalized Cross-lingual Transfer with Linguistic Knowledge

, 2016
This paper studies cross-lingual transfer for dependency parsing, focusing on very low-resource settings where delexicalized transfer is the only fully automatic option. We show how to boost parsing performance by rewriting the source sentences so as to better match the linguistic regularities of the target language.
Aufrant, Lauriane, Wisniewski, Guillaume, Yvon, François   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

The future in a bubble: Supporting Finnish early childhood professionals working in diverse settings

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this study was to contribute to the knowledge about early childhood education and care (ECEC) personnel's perception of the support structures that are most effective in assisting them in their work with culturally and linguistically diverse children.
Alexandra C. Anton, Juli‐Anna Aerila, Elizabeth A. Steed   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Intersecting factors of disadvantage and discrimination and their effect on daily life during the coronavirus pandemic: the CICADA-ME mixed-methods study

Health and Social Care Delivery Research
Background The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated pre-existing societal inequities. Our study addresses the dearth of studies on how intersecting factors of disadvantage and discrimination affected pandemic daily life for disabled people from minoritised ...
Carol Rivas, Amanda P Moore, Alison Thomson, Kusha Anand, Zainab Zuzer Lal, Alison Fang-Wei Wu, Ozan Aksoy   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Potential of a digital parenting app to support parents of toddlers: Relations between the intensity of app use, language‐related parental self‐efficacy and the home literacy environment

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The home literacy environment (HLE) has a considerable influence on children's language development. How parents perceive their own parenting abilities (e.g., how well they encourage their children's language development) is particularly important when it comes to guiding their children appropriately through different stages of development ...
Luisa Prokupek, Theresia Hummel, Sabine Blaurock, Franziska Cohen, Yvonne Anders   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Applying the theory of planned behaviour to examine teachers' intentions to teach in inclusive classrooms and their inclusive practices

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Given the vital role of teachers in inclusive education, there has been growing interest in teacher‐related factors that influence their intentions to teach in inclusive classrooms and their inclusive practices. Based on Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour, we investigated the relationship between teachers’ affective attitudes towards ...
İpek Gülsün, Olli‐Pekka Malinen, Akie Yada, Hannu Savolainen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Longitudinal links of negative student–teacher relationships and positive class climate with traditional bullying and cyberbullying perpetration

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study aimed to investigate whether negative student–teacher relationships and within‐class perceptions of the class climate at the individual level, and positive class climates at the classroom level in fifth grade, were associated with traditional bullying and cyberbullying perpetration 1 year later, in sixth grade, in a sample of
Robert Thornberg, Björn Sjögren, Jun Sung Hong, Claudio Longobardi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source