School of Education: Recent submissions
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The discursive formation of the affirmative action policy in Chile: Right to higher education, public education, and deficit
(SAGE Publications, 29 August 2024)Global scholarly narratives have identified a strong influence of anti-racist, anti-discrimination, and gender equality movements and discourses on affirmative actions in higher education in different national contexts. ... -
“All children are reachable”: an exploration of teachers’ differing inclusive attitudes, self-efficacy, and pedagogical approaches to supporting children with reading difficulties and/or dyslexia, and Lesson Study as a method of supporting mainstream primary school teachers.
(University of Exeter Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 19 August 2024)Background A strong body of evidence demonstrates links between teachers’ self-efficacy (TSE), their inclusive attitudes, and their ability to create supportive learning environments for children with Special Educational ... -
Representativeness and metadata presentation in learner/child corpora: Lessons from the GiG and TRAWL corpora
(Elsevier, 23 August 2024)Representativeness is a key requirement in corpus linguistics, and the evaluation of the representativeness of an existing corpus depends on the provision of metadata. The present paper discusses challenges to both ... -
Vocabulary sophistication in children’s L2 school writing
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2024)This paper tests three hypotheses about written vocabulary in child L2 English. Specifically, as children mature: 1) the mean frequency values of the nouns they use increase; 2) the mean frequencies of other parts-of-speech ... -
Break dancing used to pride itself on inclusivity – so why is it in the Olympic Games but not the Paralympics?
(The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited, 2 August 2024)Despite these egalitarian beginnings, break dancing has not made it to the Paralympic Games, the alternative form of the Olympic Games developed to celebrate sport by people with disabilities. It is a sad reality that, ...