Spotlight Session: Joint AARE/BERA – Policy and practice in teacher education – the UK and Australia

Convenor and Chair: Menter, Ian – University of Oxford
Discussant: Mills, Martin – The University of Queensland

Policy and policy processes in teacher education
Mayer,  Diane – University of Sydney; Menter, Ian – University of Oxford; Burn, Katharine – University of Oxford; Mutton, Trevor – University of Oxford; White, Simone – Monash University

Creativity in Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

Developing innovative creative pedagogies and educational practices
Chair: Sakr, Mona – Middlesex University

0504 – Understanding Creativity in HE students: A case study from the Ecstasi Project (Encouraging Creativity in Students Through Applying Student Inquiry)
Griffiths, Marie – University of Salford; Kutar, Maria – University of Salford; Wood, Jamie – University of Lincoln

0624 – Carving Space and Negotiating ‘Your Place’: Redrawing Teaching Practices in an ‘Entrepreneurial Academy’
Morrin, Kirsty – The University of Manchester

0225 – Exploring and extending practitioner responses to young children’s art-making
Sakr, Mona – Middlesex University; Harding, Jacqueline – Middlesex University

0443 – Steve Jobs and Lars von Trier: Incarnations of interconnections of creativity and innovation
Hammershoej, Lars – Aarhus University

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Individual Papers

Perspectives on the curriculum
Chair: Birdsey, Nicola – Cardiff University, University of South Wales

*0016 – The Pedagogical Impact on Students’ Development of Critical Thinking: Experience from Hong Kong Secondary Schools
Fung, Dennis – The University of Hong Kong

*0113 – ‘What gets me is though some people in London don’t know what chicken nuggets come from. […] We know a lot more than they do about animals’: Teaching Food (not Nutrition) Education in Schools
Earl, Lexi – University of Nottingham

*0579 – Creating learning contexts that afford greater resilience to educational underachievement: A socio-cultural exploration of the situated learning experiences of central and peripheral learners in higher and lower achieving primary schools
Birdsey, Nicola – Cardiff University, University of South Wales

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy
Session Type: Individual Papers

Teacher sense-making
Chair: Knapton, Helena – Edge Hill University

0376 – The implications of the reformed Ancient Languages curriculum at GCSE: Teachers’ perceptions
Werno, Magda – Cambridge Assessment; Carroll, Prerna – Cambridge Assessment; Wilson, Frances – Cambridge Assessment; Constantinou, Filio – Cambridge Assessment

0499 – Why be good? Axiological foundations for behaviour management policies in 36 Secondary schools in England
Knapton, Helena – Edge Hill University

0329 – Teacher sense-making in school based curriculum development through critical collaborative professional enquiry: using ‘big ideas’ to imagine new possibilities and practices
Priestley, Mark – University of Stirling; Drew, Valerie – University of Stirling

Early Childhood
Session Type: Innovation Session

0408 – Visual methods, objects and material culture in early childhood
Wood, Elizabeth – University of Sheffield; Nutbrown, Cathy – University of Sheffield; Levy, Rachael – University of Sheffield; Page, Jools – University of Sheffield; Yamada-Rice, Dylan – University of Sheffield; Procter, Lisa – University of Sheffield

Educational Effectiveness and Improvement
Session Type: Individual Papers

Narratives of leadership and disadvantage
Chair: Ovenden-Hope, Tanya – The Cornwall College Group, Plymouth University

0065 – Tackling disadvantage: What works in narrowing the achievement gap in schools?
Demie, Feyisa – Lambeth LA

0213 – The Class of 2010: a longitudinal study of the challenge of raising student attainment for a new academy in a socio-economically disadvantaged coastal region in England
Ovenden-Hope, Tanya – The Cornwall College Group, Plymouth University; Passy, Rowena – Plymouth University

0092 – Student Academic Engagement: Narratives of leadership
Gray, Jan – Edith Cowan University

0231 – Developing and implementing an RCT that seeks to assess the effectiveness of :The Letterbox Club: in improving the reading and number skills for primary school children in care
Mooney, Jennifer – Queens University Belfast

Educational Research and Educational Policy-making
Session Type: Symposia

0498 – Knowledge mobilisation and Translational Research: building an educational version of NICE through the MESH initiative
Younie, Sarah – De Montfort University, Education Futures Collaboration; Procter, Richard – De Montfort University, Education Futures Collaboration; Jones, Sarah – Hull University, Education Futures Collaboration; Ovenden-Hope, Tanya – Cornwall College, Education Futures Collaboration; Velle, Linda la – Plymouth University, Education Futures Collaboration; Davies, Larissa McLean – University of Melbourne, Education Futures Collaboration; Kriewaldt, Jeana – University of Melbourne, Education Futures Collaboration; Rice, Suzanne – University of Melbourne, Education Futures Collaboration; Flynn, Naomi – University of Winchester, Education Futures Collaboration; Leask, Marilyn – Education Futures Collaboration, University of Bedfordshire

Educational Research and Educational Policy-making
Session Type: Individual Papers

Towards strategies for self-improving systems
Chair: Riddell, Richard – Bath Spa University

*0299 – A motivation for European Education and Higher Education Policy: Social or economic?
John, Sarah St – University of Glasgow

0161 – The Network Around The School: the work of Additional Ofsted Inspectors (AIs) with schools in the ‘self-improving system’
Riddell, Richard – Bath Spa University

*0331 – An Examination of Teachers’ Professional Autonomy in a Primary Academy School
Chrostowska, Marlena – Liverpool John Moores University

0465 – Evaluating the impact of professional learning: policy, practice and tensions
Boylan, Mark – Sheffield Hallam University; Demack, Sean – Sheffield Hallam University

Educational Technology
Session Type: Individual Papers

Digital Transformation, Student Engagement and Bullying in Education
Chair: McGowan, Aidan – Queen”s University Belfast

0422 – How Video Lecture Capture affects Student Engagement in a Higher Education Computer Programming Course: A Study of Attendance, Video Viewing Behaviours and Student Attitude
McGowan, Aidan – Queen’s University Belfast; Hanna, Philip – Queen’s University Belfast

0138 – Cyberbullying, Schools and the Law: A comparative study in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
Purdy, Noel – Stranmillis University College; McGuckin, Conor – Trinity College

0242 – The use of Quality Talk to increase critical analytical speaking and writing of students in three secondary schools in New Zealand
Davies, Maree – University of Auckland

Higher Education
Session Type: Symposia

Convenor: Minty, Sarah – University of Edinburgh
Discussant: Lingard, Bob – University of Queensland

0403 – Higher Education in Scotland and the UK: Diverging or Converging Systems?
Riddell, Sheila – University of Edinburgh; Blackburn, Lucy Hunter – Freelance Consultant; Minty, Sarah – University of Edinburgh; Whittaker, Susan – University of Edinburgh

Higher Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

Recruitment: whose choice?
Chair: Bamford, Jan – London Metropolitan University

0109 – Students’ choices of institution and subject in Higher Education
Gill, Tim – Cambridge Assessment; Vidal Rodeiro, Carmen – Cambridge Assessment; Zanini, Nadir – Cambridge Assessment

0038 – Promoting the Take-Up of Masters Courses: Evidence from the Fast Forward Programme
Hawkes, Denise – UCL Institute of Education; Cagliesi, Gabriella – University of Greenwich; Igwe, Emmanuel – University of Greenwich; Sibson, Jonathan – University of Greenwich

0464 – Joint transnational Masters programmes: the future for a Europe of Knowledge?
Bamford, Jan – London Metropolitan University

Higher Education
Session Type: Symposia

0168 – ‘Diversity’ in Higher Education and inclusive learning futures
Gibson, Suanne – Plymouth University; Black, Alison – Plymouth University; Baskerville, Delia – Victoria University; Berry, Ann – Plymouth State University; Norris, Kathleen – Plymouth State University; Symeonidou, Simoni – University of Cyprus; Clarke, Margaret – California State University

Inclusive Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

Supporting Transition
Chair: Egan, Margaret – Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick

*0336 – British Pakistani maternal perspectives on having a child with Special Educational Needs and/or Disability
Rizvi, Sana – University of Bristol

0012 – The effects of irregular school transitions on military children’s relationship orientations and the impact upon educational outcomes
Shaw, Georgina – University of Bath

0041 – The Geography of Opportunity and Special Education Placement
Egan, Maragret – Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick; Conway, Paul – University of Limerick

Leadership & Management in Education
Session Type: Innovation Session

0276 – Building a community of leadership practice within a graduate program: Fresh perspectives on Action Research
Harold, Barbara – Zayed University; Stephenson, Lauren – Australian Catholic University

Literacy and Language
Session Type: Individual Papers

Mediating Language Boundaries
Chair: Owen, John – Bangor University

0623 – A meta-analysis of research into the social worlds of Irish, Scottish-Gaelic and Welsh language medium schools
Smala, Simone – Frances Greene The University of Queensland

0573 – Language brokering: Bilingual children mediating the worlds of monolingual adults
Perumal, Ratha – University of East London; Martin, Estelle – University of East London

*0009 – Language, Identity and Opportunities to Learn: Have we forgotten about the diversity of English Language Learners?
Dabrowski, Anna – The University of Melbourne

*0268 – ‘Welsh out of School’ Factors influencing pupils’ use of Welsh in social contexts and implications for minority language revitalisation
Owen, John – Bangor University

Mathematics Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

Teaching and learning algebra: Perspectives and approaches
Chair: Pearn, Catherine – The University of Melbourne
 

0348 – Why knowledge of fractions is important for algebraic readiness in the middle years of schooling
Pearn, Catherine – The University of Melbourne

*0057 – Keeping it real: An action research investigation into using manipulatives to teach algebra
Curtis, Fiona – University of Reading

0162 – The Challenges of Curriculum Reform – A Focus on Algebra
Prendergast, Mark – Trinity College Dublin; Treacy, Paraic – University of Derby

Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy
Session Type: Individual Papers

Inclusion and Physical Education
Chair: Flintoff, Anne – Leeds Beckett University

0353 – Re-engaging ‘at risk of disengaging’ young learners through integrated HPE curriculum and footballer ‘role models’ – what is it that ‘works’ about the Titans Learning Centre?
Whatman, Susan – Katherine Main Griffith University

0232 – A whitewashed curriculum? The construction of race in contemporary PE curriculum policy
Flintoff, Anne – Leeds Beckett University; Dowling, Fiona – Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

*0568 – “Girls are born to hula hoop”: An exploration of the construction of health and ability in a city secondary school
Damant, Estelle – Loughborough University; Cale, Lorraine – Loughborough University

Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning
Session Type: Individual Papers

Teachers and teaching in further and adult education
Chair: Tummons, Jonathan – Durham University

0071 – Envisioning the education of further education trainee teachers with occupational experiences using a collaborative and evidence-based research approach
Loo, Sai – UCL Institute of Education

0183 – Changing professional standards in further education: exploring the perspectives of practitioners
Tummons, Jonathan – Durham University

0334 – Professionalism in Further Education: International Perspectives and Comparisons
Atkins, Liz – Northumbria University; Tummons, Jonathan – Durham University

Practitioner Research
Session Type: Individual Papers

Teachers and research partners researching their practice
Chair: Struthers, d’Reen, UCL Institute of Education

0104 – “I see inquiry as a normal part of my professional practice”: A critical examination of practitioners’ experiences from one Midlands Teaching School Alliance
Fox, Alison – University of Leicester; Poultney, Val – University of Derby; Brown, Angela – Brooke Weston Teaching School; Alliance; Rawes, Neil – Casterton Business and Enterprise College; Silverthorne, Jill – Bishop Stopford School

0144 – Action research projects to develop children’s literacy. An evaluation of research in action
Davis, Geraldine – Anglia Ruskin University; Luff, Paulette – Anglia Ruskin University

0475 – The role of the research-active professional in establishing a research-rich culture in their professional setting: a case study of a collaborative Professional Doctorate research experience
Devlin, Linda – University of Wolverhampton; Badyal, Caroline – Q3 Academy

Religious and Moral Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

Pakistani Boys, Polish Parents and Religious Schools
Chair: Orchard, Janet – University of Bristol

0062 – Pakistani boys’ education in Birmingham
Iqbal, Karamat – Warwick University

*0340 – “You Got to Have Faith”: A Case Study of Polish Parents’ Secondary School Choice for Their Children in London and Nottingham
Thatcher, Jenny – University of East London

0546 – A comparative study of contemporary Catholic, Jewish and Islamic schools in Canada and the UK
McKinney, Stephen – University of Glasgow

Research Methodology in Education
Session Type: Individual Papers

Critical issues in quantitative educational research: proxy measures; multiple correspondence analysis & Bourdieu; policy research and the systematic review
Chair: Halvorsrud, Kristoffer – University of Nottingham

*0158 – Is a homework ‘proxy’ enough? Addressing the methodological problem of extrapolating findings from experimental mother-child interaction studies
Leith, Georgia – University of Sussex; Pike, Alison – University of Sussex; Yuill, Nicola – University of Sussex

0194 – Methodological Advancement and Innovation in Educational Research: Bourdieu, Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Occupational Therapy
Watson, Jo – University of Southampton; Grenfell, Michael – University of Southampton

*0342 – ‘School Dropout’: A Systematic Review and Methodological Discussion
Halvorsrud, Kristoffer – The Research Council of Norway

Science Education
Session Type: Symposia

0467 – Nurturing the Rich Learning and Teaching of Science
Hillier, Judith – University of Oxford; Feng, Wai Yi – University of Cambridge; Bowker, Anne – University Campus Suffolk; Montagu, David – Royal Society

Social Justice
Session Type: Individual Papers

Social Justice In Higher Education
Chair: Harrison, Neil – University of the West of England
 

0488 – Why no wider? Problematising ‘success’ in stimulating demand for university from under-represented groups
Harrison, Neil – University of the West of England; Waller, Richard – University of the West of England

0056 – Social Justice in HE: discourses and identities in the work of student ambassadors as ‘role models’
Gartland, Clare – University Campus Suffolk

Social Justice
Session Type: Individual Papers

Education And Social Context
Chair: Evans, Christine – BOSTES

*0228 – Professional Perceptions of a Community-Oriented School: A Case Study
Parr, Elizabeth – University of Manchester, Liverpool Hope University

*0251 – ‘Start treating me like a Dad!’ Imprisoned Fathers’ perceptions of their engagement in the education of their children
O’Keeffe, Helen – Edge Hill University

*0283 – Curriculum renewal in New South Wales and the representation of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, doing and being
Evans, Christine – BOSTES

Teacher Education and Development
Session Type: Individual Papers

Becoming a teacher
Chair: Baratta, Alex – The University of Manchester

0029 – Who will I be today? Investigating the link between accent and teacher identity
Baratta, Alex – The University of Manchester

*0196 – Going into battle: Becoming a male primary school teacher
Woodfine, Corinne – Manchester Metropolitan University

Teacher Education and Development
Session Type: Symposia

0511 – The Hope Challenge Phonics Intervention – applying a pedagogy of enactment to the work of teacher education
Pearson, Michelle – Sue Cronin Liverpool Hope University

Teacher Education and Development
Session Type: Individual Papers

Teachers as technicians or activists?
Chair: Mooney Simmie, Geraldine – University of Limerick

0481 – A Literature Review of Teacher Induction Workshop Programmes: a transmission model or an evolving dynamic framework for teacher autonomy?
Simmie, Geraldine Mooney – University of Limerick; dePaor, Cathal – Mary Immaculate College; Liston, Jennifer – University of Limerick; O’Shea, John – Mary Immaculate College

0518 – Narrative analysis of a multi-layered education partnership in the early career phase of teacher education 
Redford, Morag – University of the Highlands and Islands; Gatt, Nina – University of the Highlands and Islands; Nicol, Lindsay – University of the Highlands and Islands

0526 – From Didactics to ‘Critical Thinking’ and Reflective Practice: Constructions of Teachers’ Professional Knowledge in a post-Soviet Context
Yakavets, Natallia – University of Cambridge Faculty of Education; Bridges, David – University of Cambridge Faculty of Education

Youth Studies
Session Type: Individual Papers

Well-being and young people’s practices of the self
Chair: Lloyd, Katrina – Queen’s University Belfast

0361 – “I’m happy with who I am”: A discursive analysis of the self-characterisation practices of boys in behaviour schools
Graham, Linda – Queensland University of Technology

0382 – Routines and rest: the sleep behaviours of 11 to 15 year olds
Horton, Kimberley – Cardiff University; Taylor, Chris – Cardiff University; Power, Sally – Cardiff University

0428 – Children’s subjective wellbeing: What have children’s rights got to do with it?
Lloyd, Katrina – Queen’s University Belfast