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Gorard, Stephen; Maria Ventista, Ourania; Morris, Rebecca; See, Beng Huat – Educational Studies, 2023
This paper presents the results of a large-scale survey of undergraduates in England, concerning their envisaged career choices and how they made them. This gives a more complete account of those who do and do not want to be teachers than usual in the existing literature based primarily on prospective/existing teacher accounts. The paper looks at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation)
Morris, Rebecca; See, Beng Huat; Gorard, Stephen; Siddiqui, Nadia – Educational Studies, 2023
This paper presents an evaluation of "Literacy for Life" (LfL) -- a whole-school literacy programme, implemented in five secondary schools in England. The aims of LfL were to improve literacy attainment and to promote positive attitudes to reading and writing. However, when compared to other schools, there is little or no evidence that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Secondary Schools
Little, Stephanie; Maunder, Rachel – Educational Studies, 2022
This small-scale study investigated the impact of training teachers on early attachment and adolescent neuroscience. The aim was to assess change in empathy pre and post training. Forty secondary school teachers in England completed the Empathy Components Questionnaire before and after Attachment Awareness training, showing small but…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Attachment Behavior
Mitchell, Edwina – Educational Studies, 2022
This paper based on an online survey and follow up interviews, is part of a larger study exploring English parents reasons to home educate (H.E.) their children and their pedagogic practices. The 54 survey responses, from a total of 223, showed that 92 children aged 2-18 had never attended mainstream education. Respondents views on the purpose of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Parent Attitudes, Role of Education
Carrasco, Cosme J. Gómez; Martínez, Pedro Miralles; Medina, Jairo Rodríguez; Sánchez, Javier J. Maquilón – Educational Studies, 2021
The main aim of this paper is to compare the opinions and perceptions of trainee teachers in Spain and the United Kingdom on the most appropriate procedures, activities and exercises to assess historical knowledge. A closed questionnaire was developed with a Likert-type scale (1-5). The sample was 506 questionnaires of students of the Teacher…
Descriptors: Assessment Literacy, Evaluation Methods, History Instruction, Student Attitudes
Twiner, A.; Major, L.; Wegerif, R. – Irish Educational Studies, 2022
Employers often complain that students leave school unequipped with the real-world skills needed, including problem-solving, teamwork and effective communication. Conversely, school-based education often suffers from limited perceived authenticity leading to low student engagement. Work experience is one solution, but it is labour-intensive and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Mobility, Internship Programs, Cooperation
Kerslake, Laura; Hannam, Judith – Irish Educational Studies, 2022
This paper presents findings from a study into children's media and information literacy (MIL). The purpose of the study was to understand English primary school children's (ages 8-11) attitude toward the internet as well as their ability to find, use and evaluate information. This then informed the development of a MIL programme of learning for…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Information Literacy, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Reay, Diane – Irish Educational Studies, 2022
This article draws on case studies from abroad to illustrate what to avoid and what to promote in the quest for a socially just educational system. It first looks at the range of goals different countries have pursued in relation to education. It then focuses more closely on policies in a range of European countries, that have inhibited or enabled…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Access to Education, Educational Policy, Equal Education
Hewitt, Dave; Alajmi, Amal Hussain – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
This study identifies language specific errors made with transcoding tasks to inform possible future pedagogic decisions regarding the language used when teaching early number. We compared children aged 5-7 years from Kuwait and England. The spoken Arabic language of Kuwait gave the opportunity to compare not only languages where the tens and…
Descriptors: Numbers, Young Children, Arabic, Foreign Countries
Kathryn Spicksley; Alison Kington – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
In this paper, we make initial advances towards building an argument for the inclusion of Critical Literacy Awareness within the new Early Career Framework in England. Using illustrative examples from recent research projects, we argue that post-2010 education policy has discursively divided practitioners, structuring relationships between…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Beginning Teachers, Collegiality, Teacher Motivation
Jim Hordern; Clare Brooks – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
This paper focuses on the structure and substance of the Core Content Framework (CCF), a controversial document which stipulates content that providers of teacher education in England must incorporate in their programmes. We identify both a concept of instrumental trainability and a lack of coherence in the CCF which suggests it is unsuitable as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Educational Policy
Clara Rübner Jørgensen; Thomas Perry; Rosanna Lea – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
Cognitive science-informed approaches have gained considerable influence in education in the UK and internationally, but not much is known about how teachers perceive cognitive science-informed strategies or enact them within the contexts of their everyday classrooms. In this paper, we discuss the perceptions and experiences of cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Educational Practices, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Quaye, Jeffery; Pomeroy, David – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2022
Drawing on Bourdieu's theory of social and cultural reproduction, this article utilizes the conceptual tools of habitus and cultural capital to examine intergenerational inequalities in attitudes towards mathematics and mathematics learning in three secondary schools in England. Data from 1079 students aged 14-16 included mathematics achievement,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics
Lloyd, Jenny; Walker, Joanne – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
This article considers how schools are addressing harmful sexual behaviour occurring between students. In the context of policy and school inspection, driven by student disclosures of sexual harm, schools are being required to evidence responses to sexual harassment and abuse within and beyond school. Presenting findings from 14 school audits the…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Student Behavior, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Lu, Binwei – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
This study compares the estimated grammar school effect in different regression models, and explains why previous evidence of the effectiveness of grammar school is mixed. Like most studies of school effectiveness evaluation, previous research on grammar school effect usually applies regression to control for confounding between-school factors and…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis