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Atiyya Nisar; Richard P. Hastings; Richard C. Watkins; Sharon Williams – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
The incorporation of mental well-being provision into school curricula is increasingly the focus of government policy in the UK and internationally. However, it is not clear what well-being programmes schools provide to pupils, and how these programmes are delivered. The current study was an online survey to assess the use of whole-school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Schools, Mainstreaming, Well Being
Ahn, Mi Young; Davis, Howard H. – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Research on inequality in higher education (HE) is often dominated by class-based assumptions about traditional and non-traditional students. This binary distinction emphasising students' socio-economic status tends to oversimplify the complexity of educational inequality, neglecting crucial factors which affect the perception of social position.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, Geographic Location
Long, Sara Jayne; Hawkins, Jemma; Murphy, Simon; Moore, Graham – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
The education systems of the four UK nations are diverging, and the education system in Wales is undergoing major reform with substantially increased emphasis on health and wellbeing. Understanding the implementation of major policy and system reforms requires an understanding of system histories and starting points. This study aimed to explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Schools, Health
Jerrim, John; Lopez-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar David – British Educational Research Journal, 2022
In this paper we investigate the link between the language in which pupils take the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test and the scores they achieve in this assessment, focusing upon the case of Wales. Using five rounds of PISA data and an instrumental variable approach, we show how pupils who took the test in Welsh score…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Gray, Shirley; Hooper, Oliver; Hardley, Stephanie; Sandford, Rachel; Aldous, David; Stirrup, Julie; Carse, Nicola; Bryant, Anna S. – British Educational Research Journal, 2022
Abstract In this paper, we present the findings from our critical analysis of the health discourses evident with physical education (PE) curricula in each UK home nation--England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. We carried out a critical discourse analysis of those curriculum documents that talk directly to PE teachers about how to organise,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Curriculum, Discourse Analysis
Howard, Katie B.; Katsos, Napoleon; Gibson, Jenny L. – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
With greater linguistic diversity in educational settings around the world as a result of international migration, and a rise in autism diagnoses, educators are more frequently teaching children who are both neurodiverse and linguistically different to their peers. The aim of the present study was to uncover the perspectives and experiences of…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Teacher Attitudes, Bilingual Students
Lumby, Jacky; Mac Ruairc, Gerry – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
This article argues that engagement with religion is a key challenge for all leaders of schools in twenty-first-century multifaith societies. It outlines the historic and current context of the UK and the Republic of Ireland, and national and European policies that prioritise community cohesion in education. The functional and substantive roles of…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Foreign Countries, Religion, Educational Policy
Barrance, Rhian – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
This article presents findings on students' views and experiences of tiering in Northern Ireland and Wales from a children's rights perspective. It considers the extent to which tiering fulfils the rights to education, best interests, non-discrimination, and participation under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It emphasises that while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Exit Examinations, Children, Childrens Rights
Moore, Graham F.; Anthony, Rebecca E.; Hawkins, Jemma; Van Godwin, Jordan; Murphy, Simon; Hewitt, Gillian; Melendez-Torres, G. J. – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
Young people's wellbeing is often lowest where they assume a relatively low position within their school's socioeconomic hierarchy, for example, among poorer children attending more affluent schools. Transition to secondary school is a period during which young people typically enter an environment which is more socioeconomically diverse than…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Well Being, Secondary School Students, Mental Health
Connolly, Mark; Milton, Emmajane; Davies, Andrew James; Barrance, Rhian – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
This article considers the professional work, identity and recruitment of head teachers (HTs) in Wales. Drawing on the sociology of professions, the article illustrates how intensive educational policy reform post-2011 has restricted HTs' professional agency and re-orientated the head teacher role towards organisational professionalism. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Persistence, Instructional Leadership