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                <title>Advancing international comparative research on the professional lives and roles of teaching assistants in schools</title>
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                    Run Tan, Rob Webster and Claire Griffin                </dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Despite the growing number of teaching assistants (TAs) in schools worldwide, comparative international research on their professional lives and roles remains limited. Most are small-scale...]]></description>
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                <title>Want to know if your research has made an impact?</title>
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                    Vesife Hatisaru and Nicole Atkins                </dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[The impact your research has in the real world is of vital importance to researchers, to those who fund research and to those across the globe who benefit from your research findings. Research...]]></description>
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                <title>The missing discipline? Why ‘didagogy’ challenges what we think we know about teaching teachers</title>
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                    Tanya Ovenden-Hope                </dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[The teaching profession in England is built on a glaring contradiction. We have pedagogy for teaching children and andragogy for teaching adults, yet when it comes to the teaching and learning of...]]></description>
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                <title>Getting creative in schools to improve young people’s wellbeing</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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                    Neil Humphrey                </dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Wellbeing is about feeling good and functioning well (Deighton, 2016). In the UK, young people’s wellbeing has been declining for the past two decades, and the prevalence of mental health...]]></description>
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                <title>The use of colour in identity formation: Exploring FE teacher dual identities</title>
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                    Abbie Cairns                </dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Identity in further education (FE) is complex and marked by shifting expectations, yet teacher identity remains under-researched (Steadman, 2023). Existing literature highlights the contested,...]]></description>
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                <title>What do children expect from their parents? A child-centred analysis</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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                    Aisha Naz Ansari                </dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Debates about ‘good parenting’ have long been shaped by adult-centric theories. Baumrind’s (1991) typology of parenting styles and Bowlby and colleagues’ (1992) attachment theories remain...]]></description>
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