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Tackling ignorance about law in human rights education
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper aims to unpack potential reasons why law and legal knowledge—despite its apparent importance and value in teaching and learning about human rights—appears to be largely conspicuous by its absence in human rights education (HRE) in schooling.
Suzanne Egan
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper reports on the findings of a natural experiment based on a sample of 1123 children aged 4–8 from the provinces of Punjab in Pakistan, and Gujarat in India. It looks at the impact of attendance (or not) in early schooling on the cognitive and social–emotional development of young children.
Nadia Siddiqui +7 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Many newcomer children spend a ‘silent year’ in elementary school classrooms while they adjust to a new culture and language. This often delays inclusion in learning and forming friendships with peers. For refugee children with disabilities (RCDs) this phase may last for 3 years or more, impacting their mental health and sense of belonging ...
Susan Barber
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract School children experience a range of normative transitions throughout their compulsory education, with the transition from primary to secondary school seen as the most intensive and challenging. While this transition is well researched, the focus of such work has been labelled disparate and lacking in terms of its focus on the pupils ...
Peter Wood +2 more
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
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Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The purpose of ‘doing’ education is often unconsidered or assumed in educational thinking and practice, despite the diversity of understandings. Gert Biesta's perspective that education has a threefold purpose of qualification, socialisation and subjectification is among the most known.
Dalila Pinto Coelho +2 more
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Rigour in interpretive qualitative research in education: Ideas to think with
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract There has been a proliferation of qualitative approaches to researching education. While this has resulted in the construction of a rich tapestry of knowledge about education, it has also resulted in disparate research ideas, processes and practices, and created tensions relating to what constitutes rigorous qualitative research in education ...
Anthony J. Maher
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study recognised that there is currently limited understanding of the extent and nature of ability grouping practices in subject areas other than mathematics and English in primary schools. Using survey methods, this research sought to generate data of sufficient scale to extend understanding of the use of ability grouping practices in ...
Shaun D. Wilkinson, Dawn Penney
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Teacher self‐efficacy: Validating a new measurement scale to capture the elusive construct
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Teachers’ beliefs in their ability to positively impact students’ learning outcomes has become a strong indicator of teachers’ motivation and behaviour towards the instructional strategies they employ. However, measuring the broader concept of teacher self‐efficacy is still somewhat problematic as current scales are dated, have measurement ...
Stuart Woodcock +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract A small‐scale qualitative case study of students at a post‐1992 university in England sought to understand the nuanced experiences of returning to face‐to‐face study following the pandemic. Whilst much has been written about the effects of studying online, much less is known about how students adapted once they returned to campus‐based ...
Jesse Potter +3 more
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