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Young Children's Identities:A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective
No full textThis book aims to explore the increasingly growing area of children’s identities in early childhood focusing on understanding the complexity and competency involved in children constructing and negotiating identities across contexts which children are most situated with. The book provides an wider and deeper insight into young children’s identities and invite all the stakeholders such as parents, practitioners, students, professionals, academics, researchers and policy makers to broaden understanding, listen to children with authentic interest, challenge own assumptions, stereotypes, prejudices against childhood and children, embrace and promote justice and humanity in order to support children’s wellbeing and experiences in the early stage of life course
Acumenous Game-Based Learning in Simulation Games:Transforming Fears of Mathematics and Statistics Education
No full textPlasticity in leukocyte migration during haematopoiesis and inflammation
No full textUnder normal physiological conditions, leukocytes and other tissue resident immune cells have been shown to migrate using the mesenchymal (integrin/adhesion dependent) and/or ameboid (integrin/adhesion independent) modes of migration. The objective of this manuscript is to provide a comprehensive literature review that illustrates how leukocytes display high levels of plasticity shifting between ameboid to mesenchymal modes of migration during haematopoiesis and the inflammatory response. This plasticity is shaped by the reciprocal regulation between the pattern of gene expression associated with their haematopoietic lineage or the leukocyte activation status, and the response to the physicochemical and topological characteristics of the surrounding tissue. The use of some common elements from the F-actin polymerising and actomyosin machinery in both modes of migration may facilitate the high capacity of leukocytes to alternate between the two migration modes while navigating a highly heterogenous landscape of physicochemical cues in their anatomical journey. We discuss this paradigm using detailed examples of specific leukocyte populations such as dendritic cells, macrophages and lymphocytes. We propose that cell adhesions involved in leukocyte migration represent signalling hubs where differentiation and physicochemical cues converge. These molecular complexes then generate signalling outputs that coordinate leukocyte expansion, differentiation, and optimal patterns of cell migration during haematopoiesis and leukocyte recruitment to inflammation sites. [Abstract copyright: © 2025. The Author(s).
Research report: On Air: Exploring the historical, scientific and political impacts of inflatables in choreography
Get PDFResearch report on the workshop-symposium "The Marvels and Misery of Inflatables" held at Roehampton University, 6th February 2025, funded by British Academy/Leverhulm
Defending Well-being as an Educational Aim: Insights from the Capability Approach
No full textSeveral perspectives in the philosophy and theory of education promote human flourishing or well-being as the central aim of education. Education, they argue, should equip children to lead good lives, i.e., lives broadly characterised by autonomous choices, engagement in worthwhile activities, and the fulfilment of one’s goals. The currency of flourishing as the central aim of education, however, has been recently critiqued on ground of its overall unfeasibility. Some critics maintain that since flourishing is not something that can be learned, and its achievement requires more than educators can provide for, the aim of flourishing goes beyond the scope of educational institutions, and it exceeds the responsibility and remits of teachers. Drawing on the core concepts of Amartya Sen’s capability approach – an ethical approach focused on well-being and freedom - this article posits that the critique of unfeasibility is not warranted. Sen’s account of well-being in terms of functionings and capability, and the normative commitment to expanding a person’s capability, focus attention on the role of education in this process, as one of the institutional ‘sites’ for the pursuit of well-being and justice. The approach thus supports and justifies identifying well-being as the overarching aim of education, while maintaining goals of developing functionings and capabilities specific to education
What Are the Epistemological Challenges Faced When Studying Teachers’ Beliefs, Judgements and Decision Making?
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Phubbed and Furious: Narcissists’ Responses to Perceived Partner Phubbing
No full textWe conducted a diary study to examine how narcissism influences reactions to daily perceived partner phubbing (N = 196). We examined relationships between two facets of narcissism (rivalry and admiration) and personal and relational well-being, reactions to phubbing, reports of retaliation, and motives for retaliation. On average, participants higher in rivalry reported lower self-esteem and higher depressed and anxious mood, whilst participants higher in admiration reported greater relationship satisfaction, higher self-esteem, lower depressed and anxious mood, and lower levels of anger/frustration. These patterns held regardless of whether they were phubbed or not. In response to partner phubbing, participants higher in rivalry reported, on average, greater curiosity, resentment, conflict, and retaliation. On days when participants reported higher phubbing, those with higher rivalry reported greater curiosity, while those higher in admiration reported greater conflict. When retaliating to phubbing, those higher in rivalry did so, on average, to get back at their partner and to seek support and approval from others, whereas those higher in admiration were less likely to report boredom as a reason for retaliating. Our findings contribute to the sparse literature on narcissism and phubbing by showing how narcissists respond to being phubbed. We discuss how phubbing may exacerbate their relational difficulties
