The International Education Studies Association
Supporting research in Education Studies
The International Education Studies Association
Supporting research in Education Studies
Wendy Bignold
Newman and the Student: From formation to transformation
This paper critically examines what a 21st Century university should be by actively employing the 19th Century educationalist John Henry Newman’s ‘Idea of a university’. The idea of a university in England and elsewhere is undergoing significant change as funding structures seemingly force greater marketisation and associated technical rationalism of…
Creative Non-Fiction: One Approach to Narrative Research in Education
There has been an increasing trend in using narratives to present individual or group experiences over the last twenty years (Sparkes, 2002 and Heikkinen et al., 2007). However, this approach continues to have its critics as well as its advocates, with some regarding it as invalid due to the creative…
Enhancing pupil motivation through an alternative curriculum: Valuing youth-selected activities
This paper suggests that if activities selected by young people themselves as part of their leisure time were incorporated into an alternative (informal) curriculum this could enhance motivation, and, therefore, achievement, within the formal curriculum. Working from the premise that unicycling is a lifestyle sport, the paper argues that unicycling…