If we are to ensure that our student teachers enter the profession with a sophisticated view of both the theory and practice of feedback, we need to acknowledge their own experiences and understanding of feedback, too. – Dr Caroline Elbra-Ramsay (2) Dr Caroline Elbra-Ramsay’s book, Understanding Feedback: A Critical Exploration Read more…
The cosmopolitan outlook on academic leadership proposed in this book is multi-layered and locates leadership levels and perspectives across the expanse of diversely situated geo-political, socio-cultural, economic, organization and policy contexts. – Su and Wood (13) This book, edited by Dr Feng Su and Dr Margaret Wood, explores what academic Read more…
adolescents are repeatedly exposed to messages emphasising the importance of physical attractiveness, which is defined in terms of culturally prescribed, unrealistic and artificial body and beauty ideals – Bell et al (2) This study by Dr Beth Bell and colleagues (including York St John’s Danielle Paddock) evaluates the efficacy of Read more…
My use of photo-elicitation interviews certainly added depth to the data gathered and exposed deeper meanings of how my participants experienced the world around them, – Dr Dai O’Brien (65) Dr Dai O’Brien’s chapter in this edited collection explores the suitability of auto-driven photo-elicitation interviews in qualitative research with young Read more…
Our commitment at YSJ to working in real partnership ensures I keep in touch with what is really happening in schools and this really benefits our students. – Keither Parker (54) Keither Parker’s section in this report on Practice-Informed Learning is a glowing appraisal of York St John’s ITE Programme Read more…
Autistic people are neurologically divergent, yet methods for investigating autistic sociality tend to assume neurotypical definitions of being social. Comparative design often results in autistic behaviour being interpreted as a deficit, rather than a difference, from neurotypical benchmarks. – Heasman and Gillespie (910) This study uses the concept of intersubjectivity Read more…
The primary question motivating this study was whether semantic information supports the phonological maintenance of whole word traces in verbal short-term memory, even when phonological-lexical experience is equated. – Savill et al. (94) This article by Dr Nicola Savill and colleagues examines whether semantic information increases the stability of new Read more…
We focus on how interactants negotiate their own agendas and that of their interlocutors in the problem-solving meeting in a multinational company. – Kim and Angouri (173) This article discusses problem-solving in corporate meetings. Dr Kyoungmi Kim and Dr Jo Angouri focus on how interactants negotiate agendas in a problem-solving Read more…
Podcasting in education could encourage collaborative dialogue between students, tutors and peers alike… – Hickman and Mason (291) This chapter uses York St John’s part-time post-graduate Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programme as a case study on the use of podcasting for assessment feedback to encourage conversations and engagement. One of our Read more…
Anger itself is a complex emotion which can be triggered by a wide range of experiences which differ from person to person. – Dr Gary Shepherd (256) In this article, Dr Gary Shepherd shares my experiences of using Action Learning (AL) within a mental health framework. This article takes on Read more…