Supporting research in Education Studies
Supporting research in Education Studies
Issues surrounding transition and becoming student have been highlighted in research as troublesome (Merrill, 2015; Christie, 2009). Recent policy developments have resulted in student learning experiences that are not always positive (Burke, 2013; Morgan, 2013) indicating that students can feel ‘disempowered, lack confidence and feel completely unprepared for university study’…
In this symposium two undergraduate students from Plymouth University talk about the origins of their third year research enquiries, the theories that shaped them, and their findings. In addition, both students will discuss their experiences of how their work is pushing forward with new knowledge and adding to their respective…
This seminar addresses and aims to unpack ideas around ’politicised compassion’. In particular, Suanne calls for the need to move on from worn out ineffective forms of ’Widening Participation’ practices, which serve to re-produce outsiders and established insiders. Connecting to concerns and questions raised by right wing swing and growth…
Issues surrounding transition and becoming student have been highlighted in research as troublesome (Merrill, 2015; Christie, 2009; Palmer et al. 2009). Recent policy developments have resulted in student learning experiences that are not always positive (Burke, 2013; Morgan, 2013) indicating that students can feel ‘disempowered, lack confidence and feel completely…
There is confusion surrounding ‘Inclusion’. The aims and drivers of inclusive education (IE) as experienced in the 1990s to early 2000s, in the UK and globally, emerged from a ‘successful’ disability rights movement with its depiction of the medical model as pejorative and promotion of the social model. In education,…
Dr Suanne Gibson (Plymouth University) and Mrs Alison Mc Lauchlin (Hertfordshire University) Against a backdrop of what some perceive as a failed rights agenda for students with ‘disability’, this study began as a quest to find a way forward, to look beyond rights legislation and develop an inclusive pedagogy linked…