This chapter offers an overview of methodological issues within science education research
and considers the extent to which this area of scholarship can be understood to (actually …

Written specifically for education studies students, this accessible text offers a clear
introduction to education policy. It aims to help the reader understand what is meant by …

This paper presents a new heuristic device for the analysis of educational policy. Through
an examination of the Evaluative State and the work of Brian Fay, the paper considers the …

Abstract Initial Teacher Education quality is often judged through the auspices of audit-style
mechanisms designed to facilitate the identification of matters pertaining to the 'readiness' of …

Across the Anglophone world, throughout the late 20 th and early 21 st century, learning and
teaching became the go-to descriptions for teacher and learner activity. Notably, this term …

This article presents a sociocultural conceptual framework for researching pedagogy as the
performance of teaching together with its attendant discourse. The framework, referred to as …

This article empirically examines the ways in which Initial Teacher Education in Scotland
and Alberta, Canada, seeks to 'get students in','get them out and into the workforce','get on …

This chapter is dedicated to exploring pedagogical insights derived from research on
synchronous online learner engagement (SOLE) for online L2 instruction. It begins by …

Michael Fielding has written about the dangers of over-emphasis on the functional in
schooling and a subordination of the personal. He wrote of,'… the need to situate our work …

Over the last two decades, the English state has sought to establish increasing levels of
control over pedagogy in Reception and Year One. As a result, the transition between these …