- Journal of Pedagogic Development
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- Instructions to authors
- Volume 8 Issue 3 November 2018
- Volume 8 Issue 2 July 2018
- Volume 8, Issue 1 March 2018
- Volume 7, Issue 3 November 2017
- Volume 7, Issue 2 July 2017
- Volume 7, Issue 1 March 2017
- Volume 6, Issue 3 November 2016
- Volume 6, Issue 2 July 2016
- Volume 5 Issue 3 November 2015
- Volume 5 Issue 2 July 2015
- Volume 5 Issue 1 March 2015
- Volume 4 Issue 3
- Volume 4 Issue 2 July 2014
- Volume 4 Issue 1 March 2014
- Volume 3 Issue 3 November 2013
- Volume 3 Issue 2 July 2013
- Volume 3 Issue 1 March 2013
- Volume 2 Issue 3 November 2012
- Volume 2 Issue 2 July 2012
- Volume 2 Issue 1 March 2012
- Volume 1 Issue 2 November 2011
- Volume 1 Issue 1 July 2011
- Instructions to authors
- Volume 8 Issue 3 November 2018
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- The Idea of a Teacher: Paradigms of Change
- Zen and the Art of Classroom Identity Formation
- Book review: The Librarians’ Book on Teaching through Games and Play
- Moving from Learning Developers to Learning Development Practitioners
- Book review: The Mini Book of Teaching Tips for Librarians, 2nd Edition
- Academics’ International Teaching Journeys: Personal Narratives of Transition in Higher Education
- The Impact of Employability on Technology Acceptance in Students: Findings from Coventry University London
- Book review: Academics’ International Teaching Journeys: Personal Narratives of Transition in Higher Education
- Holistic Midwifery Education for Holistic Midwives: Reflecting on Personal Educational Philosophy and Pedagogy
- ‘In the Real World….’ Listening to ‘Practitioner Lecturer’ Perspectives of the Relevance in the Business School Curriculum
- “We don’t need to write to learn computer sciences”: Writing Instruction and the Question of First year, Later or Not at all
- Puppets and Pedagogy in Foreign Language Education: The Use of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to Model Hispanic Puppet Theatre as an Integrated Learning Platform
- Volume 8 Issue 2 July 2018
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- Book Reviews
- Why Do People Become Academics?
- Teaching Online (Book excerpt from a work in progress)
- Does a ‘Flipped Classroom’ Approach Add Learning Value?
- Lecture Capture: Reflections on Pedagogy vs. Perception
- Peer Review Activity and a Search Engine based Corpus System
- A Truly ‘Transformative’ MBA: Executive Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Developing Live Projects as Part of an Assessment Regime Within a Dispersed Campus Model
- The Nurse Associate Trainee Deserves a HOTSHOT Education: A Reflective Signature Pedagogical Approach
- Lessons etc
- Article 2
- Contents
- Volume 8, Issue 1 March 2018
- Volume 7, Issue 3 November 2017
- Volume 7, Issue 2 July 2017
- Volume 7, Issue 1 March 2017
- Volume 6, Issue 3 November 2016
- Volume 6, Issue 2 July 2016
- Volume 5 Issue 3 November 2015
- Volume 5 Issue 2 July 2015
- Volume 5 Issue 1 March 2015
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- A Dictionary of Research Concepts and Issues
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- The Architecture of Productive Learning Networks
- Teaching Programming with Computational and Informational Thinking
- Writing in Social Spaces: A social processes approach to academic writing
- ‘So, you want us to do the marking?!’ – peer review and feedback to promote assessment as learning
- Telling timber tales in Higher Education: A reflection on my journey with digital storytelling
- The learning approaches of A Level History and Geography students analysed: a Report from a Sixth Form College
- I am not a superhero but I do have secret weapons! Using technology in Higher Education teaching to redress the power balance
- Open Futures: An enquiry and skills based educational programme developed for primary education and its use in tertiary education
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Jean Baudrillard
- Lo‐tech Tools as Episteme: Rethinking Student Engagement in the Writing Process and Beyond1
- Raising Awareness of Diversity and Social (In)justice Issues in Undergraduate Research Writing: Understanding Students and their Lives via Connecting Teaching and Research
- Volume 4 Issue 3
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- Book reviews
- The Imperial University
- Success in Academic Writing
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers Dave Cormier
- Language Centre Online (and beyond)
- No Nonsense Guide to Training in Libraries
- English and Reflective Writing Skills in Medicine
- Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
- Internationalisation and curriculum development: why and how?
- Harkness Learning: Principles of a Radical American Pedagogy
- Growing Environmental Education and Sustainability Within Universities
- Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age (3rd Edition)
- Preventing Too Little Too Late: A Novel Process of Continuous Curriculum Evaluation
- Peer Review of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: International Perspectives
- Helping Students Connect: Architecting Learning Spaces for Experiential and Transactional Reflection
- A methodology for enhancing student writing in the discipline through complementary and collaborative working between central and school based writing development provision
- Volume 4 Issue 2 July 2014
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- A Pedagogic Trinity – Exploring the Art, Craft and Science of Teaching
- In Conversation with… Zoë Readhead, Principal of Summerhill School, Leiston, Suffolk
- Teaching with Infographics: Practicing New Digital Competencies and Visual Literacies
- WAC in FYW: Building Bridges and Teachers as Architects
- A personal journey of discoveries through a DIY open course development for professional development of teachers in Higher Education
- Materialities, Textures and Pedagogies
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers Anton Makarenko
- The Complexities of Teaching 'Inclusion' in Higher Education
- Research Methods in Information (2nd edition)
- Chasing Literacy: Reading and Writing in an Age of Acceleration
- Threshold Concepts: From Personal Practice to Communities of Practice
- Book reviews
- Volume 4 Issue 1 March 2014
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- Peer Tutoring
- Education and Immigration
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Sigmund Freud
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Vivien Hodgson
- Developing Employability for Business
- Assessment for Learning in Higher Education
- International Students Negotiating Higher Education
- A Handbook for Deterring Plagiarism in Higher Education
- University Teaching in Focus: A Learning Centred Approach
- Augmented didactics in Kindergarten12: An Italian Case History
- What constitutes 'peer support' within peer supported development?
- The Good Paper – A Handbook for Writing Papers in Higher Education
- Effective feedback: An indispensable tool for improvement in quality of medical education
- Writing in the Disciplines: Building Supportive Cultures for Student Writing in UK Higher Education
- A consideration of peer support and peer mentoring within the Professional Teaching Scheme (PTS) at the ̨ÍåÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼
- Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Social Technologies: Facebook, E portfolios and Other Social Networking Services
- Developing a Strategy based Instruction Approach to Teaching and Learning Modern Languages to train ab initio Primary PGCE Trainees
- Book Reviews
- The complexities and challenges of introducing electronic Ongoing Achievement Records in the pre registration nursing course using PebblePad and hand held tablets
- Volume 3 Issue 3 November 2013
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- Book reviews
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: R.J. Harris
- Transforming lives and 'the measure of their states'
- An Investigation into Students' Perceptions of Group Assignments
- Peer Support for Technology Enhanced Learning: developing a community of learners
- Developing Digital Literacy in Construction Management Education: A Design Thinking Led Approach
- Self Directed Learning in Osteopathic Education: identifying and enhancing independent student learning
- Challenges of developing pedagogy through diversity and equity within the new Early Years Foundation (EYFS) curriculum
- Classroom Based Action Research: Revisiting the Process as Customizable and Meaningful Professional Development for Educators
- Fly on the Wall: Can students' learning be enhanced by allowing them to witness their own summative assessment and feedback event?
- Information and Communication Technologies as means for self improvement at remote universities: the example of Urgench State University, Uzbekistan
- Volume 3 Issue 2 July 2013
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- PAL at UoB!
- Book reviews
- PAL Experience
- Guest Editorial
- Celebrate Citation: Flipping the Pedagogy of Plagiarism in Qatar
- PAL Leader Training at Bournemouth University: 12 years on and still evolving
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Paul Natorp
- Electracy: The Internet as Fifth Estate
- Facilitators and Barriers to the Development of PASS at the University of Brighton
- Pedagogical Inspiration through Martial Arts Instruction
- In response to ‘Celebrate Citation: Flipping the Pedagogy of Plagiarism in Qatar’
- Stress levels and their risk/protective factors among MSc Public Health students
- Citation Matters: Two Essays on the Student Journey of Citation and How Google Scholar and the Principle of Least Effort Can Affect Academic Writing
- Volume 3 Issue 1 March 2013
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- Book reviews
- Guest Editorial
- A multi dimensional approach to principalship
- Cross cultural collaboration with China
- Teachers and Research: What they value and what they do
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas
- Resilience in Adult Learners: some pedagogical implications
- Volunteer tourism and architecture students: What motivates and can best prepare them?
- Enhancing learner knowledge and the application of that knowledge via computer based assessment
- The Impact of an In service Professional Development Course on Writing Teacher Attitudes and Pedagogy
- Reflecting on Professional Practice: The Importance of Motivating Adolescent Girls in Physical Education
- Teachers' views on the introduction and implementation of literacy tasks in the Year 7 Science scheme of learning
- Reflecting on Professional Practice: The Importance of Motivating Adolescent Girls in Physical Education
- Volume 2 Issue 3 November 2012
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- Editorial
- Book reviews
- Transition Trauma
- Improving Course Related Information of Computing Degree Courses for Enhancing Learner Development
- Different Ways of Knowing
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Paulo Friere
- Ethical Issues in Pedagogical Research
- The Future For Primary Physical Education
- A Year on the Frontline Despatches from New FE Teachers
- Nurturing the independent thinking practitioner: using threshold concepts to transform undergraduate learning
- Volume 2 Issue 2 July 2012
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- Book Review
- Editorial The First Year
- HE in FE past, present and future
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Michael Wesch
- Crossing the boundaries of film and architectural pedagogy
- The CLE Writing Retreat 2012: 'Lifting the Mask of the Imposter'
- Simulation in Clinical Education: A Reflective and Critical Account
- Guest Editorial A Harmonics of Teaching and Learning: An Editorial in Three Voices
- VLE segregation or integration? How should distance learning and taught modes be treated?
- Reflecting on the Transition from Practice to Education The Journey to Becoming an Effective Teacher in Higher Education
- Volume 2 Issue 1 March 2012
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- Editorial
- Book Reviews
- Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Jaques Lacan
- Evaluation of a Global MBA programme
- Peer Assisted Learning: Project Update
- Student engagement and the role of feedback in learning
- Will health students engage with a health information blog
- Learning and Teaching in Business Through Rich and Varied Information Sources
- Thriving as an International Student: Personal responses and the trajectories they create
- Embedding a curriculum based information literacy programme at the ̨ÍåÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼
- Learning Beyond Compliance: A comparative analysis of two cohorts undertaking a first year social work module
- Volume 1 Issue 2 November 2011
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- Editorial
- Book reviews
- Moving Online
- The Gift of Dyslexia
- Open Educational Resources: Shared Solutions for Higher Education
- Information literacy and Web 2.0: developing a modern media curriculum using social bookmarking and social networking tools
- Reading Students' Expectations: a talking point
- Standing Up For Teaching: The 'Crime' of Striving for Excellence
- Can 'Quality Marking' be used to provide effective feedback within Higher Education?
- Scenario Based Evaluation of an Ethical Framework for the Use of Digital Media in Learning and Teaching
- Volume 1 Issue 1 July 2011
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- Editorial
- Book reviews
- I get by with a little help from my friends Peer Assisted Learning
- Research project: Effective academic posters and poster exhibitions
- Brands and movie making: Using storyboards to develop spatial design students' understanding of narrative
- Learning to chat: Developing a pedagogical framework for facilitating online synchronous tutorial discussion
- The role of perception in divergent approaches to teaching and learning through the transition from foundation to bachelor degree: a preliminary exploration
Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age (3rd Edition)
By Michael, W. Apple
Routledge (2013)
Review by Kate D'Arcy
This book is a fascinating read and I would highly recommend it. Apple analyses the ongoing struggle within education regarding the curriculum, teaching and policy at a variety of levels. He describes school as an institution which organises a large part of our lives, and highlights the controversial debate which exists between those who see schools as a vehicle to social mobility and opportunities, and those who see it as an institution which controls us socially and embodies cultural dangers for those from minority groups who feel their own culture and identities are threatened within these spaces. Although he is critical, the book is thought provoking as it makes you sit back and think about different aspects of teaching and learning we might just follow, rather than critically reflect on and look for new possibilities. The text is concentrated upon the situation in the U.S. but Apple does draw on international comparisons, including the UK.
The book starts off by discussing the politics of official knowledge and common sense and from there Apple focuses on different examples of how knowledge is transmitted into classrooms. I have selected several chapters to focus on rather than provide an overview of the whole book, which would be too lengthy for a review. The first is the 3rd chapter which concerns 'Cultural Politics and the Text' where Apple considers the relationship between the texts used in school and political discourses of power. He reminds us that textbooks are 'what people hold most dear and what society recognises as legitimate and truthful' (p.49). He tells a very interesting story about the way in which 'text book adoption committees' in the US select the texts for use in schools in their own states and specific campaigns against certain textbooks. He suggests that for some, textbooks are essential classrooms tools which support teaching and learning, but for others they are a symbol of the loss of power or factorisation of education which de-skill teachers.
I personally found the 5th chapter most interesting as Apple discusses the captive audiences schools provide. In the US, as in the UK, there have been significant cuts to budgets and this is impacting on the resources schools are using; by default these are having economic and political influences on the students. For example, he explains that in the US, schools can receive free TV equipment for each classroom if they sign up to Channel One and agree to show 10 minutes of news and commercials every days for 3-5 years! Currently 7000 schools are signed up and the news and advertisements reach 5 million students per day. Apple suggests that this is an example of the school as a commodity – learners are the target of the marketing industry – schools are 'selling' students as potential customers of products. Moreover, students receive a very different learning experience. Watching a news report is very different from reading a text book: it reports on dramatic events, action and does not usually explain issues in any depth or cover all angles of the argument/case in hand.
As I suggested, Apple is deeply critical but at the same time does provide you with new ideas. My favourite idea is in the 8th chapter which concerns 'The politics of pedagogy and the building of Community', and is that of a 'Friday Seminar'. This is an event which Apple has run for many years himself for his doctoral students, as well as other educational activists. The seminar is an opportunity to read each other's work, support each other's research and help plan cultural and political action and discussions. The product of this event is that it maintains a sense of community among educationalists and scholars and offers a way for them to critically appraise what is going on in education, and consider how to address existing politics of official knowledge. This is important in my view as it enables us to hear and debate different views and work for improved mainstream education systems which are democratic rather than structured around political and economic initiatives. Apple is highly supportive of public education and his book concentrates on important issues; reading about these certainly makes you reflect critically on teaching and learning, and think about how you might improve your own practice.
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