Podcasts
What Kind of Learning do we want? 21st Century Learning, the Standards Agenda and Expert Learners
Emeritis Professor of Education, Professor Gordon Stobart, lectures on the international policy rhetoric surrounding the need for 21st century learning.
8 June 2015
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Predictability in High-Stakes Assessment: Students’ Approach to Learning
The data combined survey responses of students’ views of the examination, learning strategies, and learning support with examination results.
22 May 2015
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Does being in care provide protection or increase risk? Understanding the outcomes of children in care
Professor Janet Boddy will talk about the European Perspectives on Outcomes and Everyday Lives for Young People in Care project.
13 April 2015
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Education, language and the social brain
In recent years, researchers in evolutionary psychology and anthropology have proposed that we have evolved with “social brains” that enable us to manage complex social relationships.
2 March 2015
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Mobile learning in global health training. What about social justice?
The talk will present the background to the project and position his research at the intersection of education, health, technology and social justice.
19 February 2015
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Modalities and mechanisms of effective school inspections
School inspections are assumed to have a great impact on what students learn and how they learn it but the intermediate steps between inspection and eventual student learning outcomes are vague.
6 February 2015
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The death of human capital: why there are no exceptions
Human capital theory has dominated the understanding of the relationship of education to work.
5 February 2015
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Production tasks underestimate the grammatical abilities of sequential bilingual children
The seminar will look at the acquisition of definiteness in sequential bilingual (L2) children, children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI), and agematched typically developing (TD) children across three languages: English, Dutch, and Greek.
21 January 2015
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Contrasting the dynamics of English and Finnish education policymaking
The presentation aims to understand and contrast the dynamics in English and Finnish education policymaking.
5 December 2014
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English language policy and educational planning: Issues and concerns in Asian contexts
This presentation discusses a number of current issues and concerns relating to English Language policies with particular attention to educational contexts in Asia.
1 December 2014
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Effects of pre-school education on outcomes at age 16 and predicted lifetime earnings: Findings from the mixed method EPPSE study
1 December 2014
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Are there some questions that can’t be answered? The limits of research in teacher education
This year will see the publication of no fewer than four highprofile reports into different aspects of teacher education (BERARSA, UUK, IFS/Nuffield, DFE Carter Review).
1 December 2014
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