We spoke to Michelle Yeoman about her Doctoral research, this is what she had to say! For various reasons the tutor role is often understood in different ways by different people, with some giving more weight to each of the aspects; academic, personal, pastoral, than others, meaning the role, and Read more…
Resilience is an important skill to learn. Having confidence in our abilities to cope with and bounce back from adversity is really important to our psychological and emotional well-being. – Dr Jamie Stephenson In this blog post, Dr Jamie Stephenson explains four different methods for one to improve their resilience, Read more…
I propose that situating practitioners and trainee teachers as discourse analysts in professional development and teacher education programmes could be a valuable way to increase awareness of the importance of individual discourses and making steps to adapt them more effectively to the local context. – Dr Clare Cunningham (297) In Read more…
For too long the focus of education has been firmly rooted in the transference of knowledge. We transmit this knowledge to the learners placing ourselves in the position of knowledgeable experts at the front of the class, and then expect learners to regurgitate the facts back to us in order to achieve marks and classifications. – Ian Wilson In this blog post, Read more…
along with … indirect (and sometimes imprecise) signals of formidability, evidence suggests that the humans possess neurocognitive adaptations specifically evolved for assessing opponents’ fighting ability. – Zilioli et al. (322) In this article by Dr Samuele Zilioli et al. and colleagues (including York St John’s Dr Michael Stirrat) use three Read more…
We spoke to Sue Shippen about her Doctorate of Education (EdD), this is what she had to say! The study explores how action learning sets can be used as a learning strategy that supports early years practitioners, parents, and managers to form professional and transformational relationships. It is envisaged that Read more…
There is … reason to believe that YA is constrained by both regional and social factors in ways that again set it apart from more general cases of voice assimilation in English. – Whisker-Taylor and Clark (223) In this paper, Whisker-Taylor and Clark explore both the production and perception of Read more…
People with dementia are vulnerable when in hospital, with serious risks to their physical and emotional well-being. Hospital staff are expected to understand and respond to the emotions of the patient; however, it is not known how this can be achieved. – Petty et al. In this article, Dr Stephanie Read more…
Much literature around the NQT induction year is embedded in the narrative of ‘survival’ with discourse focusing upon this primarily as a gateway for NQTs to then ‘thrive’ … perhaps this narrative sets NQTs up to believe that the NQT year is something much more daunting than it need be… Read more…
Mapping Applied Linguistics is a clear and comprehensive introduction to a complex and extended area of study. It is, moreover, readily accessible to its intended readership of undergraduate students and non-specialists. – Susan Samata, Birkbeck, University of London This innovative book by Professor Chris Hall and colleagues maps the diverse Read more…