Research Papers

Here are some current research papers written by members of the IoE. Below you will find links to two kinds of material. Some are full papers that are currently under submission or where the journal concerned has given us permission under copyright regulations to place them here.

If you intend to make use of them, please contact the author/s first (visit the Staff Research Interests section for authors' contact details). Also on the list are some abstracts of current papers.

Tony Brown: Abstracts of recent and forthcoming papers

Tony Brown (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Broadening access to the curriculum through using technology to link home and school: a critical analysis of reforms to improve educational attainment for all K-12 students.

Abstract of a paper by Cathy Lewin, Diane Mavers and Bridget Somekh, published in 2003 in The Curriculum Journal, vol 14.

Entertaining doubts: on frivolity as resistance

Maggie MacLure, Rachel Holmes, Liz Jones, and Christina MacRae (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Silence and humour as resistance to analysis.

Maggie MacLure (Manchester Metropolitan University)

The bone in the throat: some thoughts on baroque method.

Maggie MacLure (Manchester Metropolitan University)

'Clarity bordering on stupidity': where's the quality in systematic review?

Maggie MacLure (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Concept-mapping as a Research Tool: A Study of Primary Children's Representations of Information and Communication Technologies.

Abstract of a paper by Matthew Pearson and Bridget Somekh published in 2003 in Education and Information Technologies vol 8 (Kluwer)

Can liberal education make a comeback? The case of ‘relational touch’ at Summerhill School.

Ian Stronach and Heather Piper (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Enlightenment and the ‘heart of darkness’: (neo)imperialism in the Congo, and elsewhere.

Ian Stronach (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Sex, Science and Educational Research: the unholy trinity

Ian Stronach (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Jo Frankham (Manchester University)
Sheila Stark (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Progressivism against the audit culture: the continuing case of
Summerhill School versus OfSTED

Paper by Ian Stronach (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Reflexivity, The Picturing Of Selves, The Forging Of Method

Ian Stronach, Dean Garratt, Cathie Pearce and Heather Piper (Manchester Metropolitan University)

The Future of Education

by Professor Ian Stronach

Towards an uncertain politics of professionalism: teacher and nurse identities in flux.

Current paper by Ian Stronach, Brian Corbin, Olwen McNamara, Sheila Stark, Tony Warne - Institute of Education/Department of Health Care Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University October 2000 updated June 2001. (Full paper available via link above)

Investigating the Development of Internet-based Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education - a report of work in progress.

Barbara Crossouard, John Pryor (both University of Sussex) and Harry Torrance (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Creating an Alternative Assessment Regime with Online Formative Assessment: developing a researcher identity

Barbara Crossouard, John Pryor (Sussex School of Education), Harry Torrance (Manchester Metropolitan University). Paper presented to the European Conference on Education Research Crete, September 2004

Systematic Reviewing - the 'call centre' version of research synthesis. Time for a more flexible approach.

Harry Torrance Manchester Metropolitan University. Invited presentation to ESRC/RCBN seminar on Systematic Reviewing, 24 June 2004, University of Sheffield.

Can Testing Really Raise Educational Standards?

Professorial Lecture delivered by Harry Torrance at the University of Sussex, 11 June 2002

Chinese Pupils and their Learning Preferences

Paper by Derek Woodrow and Sylvia Sham (Yuen Mei) in Race, Ethnicity and Education; vol.4 no. 4. (Full paper available via link above)

Cultural determination of curricula, theories and practices

Paper by Derek Woodrow in Pedagogy, Culture & Society Vol. 9 No. 1 pp 5-28. (Full paper available via link above)

Mathematics, Mathematics Education and Economic Conditions

Paper by Derek Woodrow. Chapter in the Second International Handbook on Mathematical Education to be published by Kluwer Press in 2003. (Full paper available via link above)

The Tyranny of Theory and the Stranglehold of Paradigms

Paper by Derek Woodrow and Andy Pickard. (Full paper available via link above)

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