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Sustaining churchgoing young Anglicans in England and Wales: assessing influence of the home
No full textResponding to the problem facing the Church of England, as identified by the Church Growth Research Programme, regarding sustaining churchgoing young Anglicans, and also responding to the Renewal and Reform agenda to address this problem, the present study discusses the roles of three agencies in delivering effective Christian education and Christian formation: local churches, local schools, and the home. Building on a fruitful stream of research within Australia and the UK, the present study drew on two samples of young Anglicans: 2,019 9- to 11-year-old students attending church primary schools in Wales, and 2,323 13- to 15-year-old students attending church secondary schools mainly in England. The data demonstrated that young Anglicans who practised their Anglican identity by attending church did so primarily because their parents were Anglican churchgoers. Moreover, young Anglican churchgoers were most likely to keep going to church if their churchgoing parents (especially mother) talked with them about their faith. The implications from these findings, for an Anglican Church strategy for ministry among children and young people, is that alongside resourcing local churches and promoting deeply Christian schools, it may also be wise for the Church to invest in the education and formation of churchgoing Anglican parents
Robert Grosseteste on eudaimonia, happiness, and learning: why the nicomachean ethics may be useful
No full textThe contested call for 'what works' education research: the nature of contemporary education research discourses and Grosseteste's views on the anima mundi
No full textThe chapter draws parallels between Grosseteste’s comments on the anima mundi and contemporary calls for education research to become more evidence informed. The chapter challenges the common interpretation of Grosseteste’s commentary on the anima mundi placing it in a wider philosophical debate over the ‘nature of Nature’. It is suggested that Grosseteste’s reluctance to fully renounce the concept of the anima mundi gives an insight into the contemporary debate within education over the desirability of ‘what works’ approaches to research. As Nature understood as animated by a ‘world soul’ is resistant to description through natural scientific methods, so education research should resist ‘what works’ approaches in favour of a research methodology, informed by complexity theory, that can recognise the animated and emergent nature of Nature
A riotous assembly - some contemporary British painting
No full textExhibition at Deda, Derby. Curated David Manley. Featuring seven current British painters, Laine Tomkinson, Lois Gardner Sabet, Stuart Reid, Gordon Dalton, Wendy McLean, John Rimmer, Liza Lee Jowse
The Drama of Communication
No full textIt is our opinion that communication skills, in and outside the world of medicine, are important in this digital age, as these skills are crucial both to the consultation and to care-giving. In this article we reflect on the importance of ‘the basics’ of communication and consider how educators can draw on drama to help postgraduate specialty trainees explore and develop their interpersonal skills. Such learning is intended to heighten the trainees' capacity for insight, as well as being entertaining and enlightening
Mapping the challenges in making the transition to taught postgraduate study in Psychology
No full textThe paper presents a model of the challenges facing undergraduates transitioning to taught postgraduate studies developed from a Grounded Theory analysis of interviews with current and prospective taught postgraduates from a range of Psychology programmes. The model reveals the importance of the visibility of current and recent taught postgraduates in influencing the decision making practices of prospective students. The process of transition to taught postgraduate studies is characterised by early decision making as for many students graduation is no longer seen as the natural end point of their educational careers. Analysis also reveals that in spite of expectations of heavier workloads and increased intensity, the reality exceeds expectations. Key areas for support identified by participants include tailored study skills support and more clarity around what constitutes ‘masters’ level work
An energy literacy matrix: a tool for adult and continuing education curriculum design
No full textIn this article the authors report on the outcome of a mixed methods study which assessed the renewable energy literacies of adults’ in rural communities across Britain. The research team used a stratified sample survey (n=6000), interviews with householders (n=97), stakeholder interviews (n=7) and one focus group meeting to collect primary data. Data from the study highlighted a series findings: a) there is a clear disjuncture between individuals’ awareness and understanding of energy related matters and government and industry rhetoric; b) there is a public appetite for more reliable (trustworthy) information on renewable energy; c) the public is not well informed about renewable energy debates and government schemes to save energy. Responding to the findings an energy literacy matrix which can be used to plot knowledge of, against, knowledge about renewable energy sources has been developed. The literacy matrix provides a development education tool to focus adult educators’ efforts on raising awareness and understanding of how local, national and global issues affect the everyday lives of individuals and communities
'Harder than other lessons but good': the effect of colleague collaboration on secondary English pupil engagement
No full textResearch examining the effects of collaborative planning in British secondary schools relates primarily to the effect it has on a teacher’s professional development. Researchers seldom focus on the impact it has on the pupils. This study was designed to understand the effect collaboratively planned lessons had on pupil engagement in a British secondary school. Transcripts from lessons observations, reflective diaries and field notes were analysed using thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). One theme was identified: ‘Pupils’ Engagement with Differentiated Instruction’. This research concludes that the collaboratively planned lessons allowed some pupils to engage in learning better than individually planned lessons. The professional learning occurring from the planning process allowed teachers to collaboratively plan a lesson that was stronger than an individually planned lesson; the most successful teaching and learning took place when teachers adopted their colleagues’ suggestions, thus supporting some of the pupils’ engagement with learning. This is significant as the UK’s Independent Teacher Workload Review Group promotes collaborative planning as a method of reducing workload (Independent Teacher Workload Review Group, 2016). However, collaborative planning is only worth doing if evidence implies that it maintains and improves outcomes for pupils. Authors discuss implications and outline areas for future research
Wives of secret agents: spyscapes of the second world war and female agency
No full textFew existing archival records or secondary sources appear to narrate or describe the circumstances, relationships, and activities of “spy wives” during the Second World War. Intelligence historians currently find themselves at a turning point, where new approaches to the writing of intelligence history have been called for that transcend the study of operations and policy, while drawing when necessary upon the methodologies of such adjacent disciplines as social history and historical geoinformatics. It is therefore surely appropriate to conduct an examination of the hitherto neglected social phenomenon of female agency in the “spyscape” of wartime British and German covert operations. Through an examination of case studies of individual wives of intelligence operatives, constructed on the basis of information gathered from scattered primary and secondary sources, it is possible to assemble and analyse a wide, highly differentiated range of gender relationships at the intersection of the manifest and secret worlds