Plymouth Institute of Education: Recent submissions
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Educational Studies and Educational Practice: A Necessary Engagement
(Informa UK Limited, 2023-05-19)This paper assesses prospects for the relationship between educational studies and educational practice, with reference to the current institutional and policy context in England. Drawing on the sociology of educational ... -
Nestling into the World: The Importance of Place and Mutuality in the Early Years
(RoutledgeLondon, 2017-11-09)Introduction. Small children can have meaningful encounters with wildlife—typical might be: Daisy looks up at her dad to see how he reacts as she watches the worm wriggle on the surface of the garden soil where they ... -
Dialogic Science Education for Diversity
(SpringerDordrecht, NL, 2013)This chapter argues that a dialogic understanding of the nature of science should lead to a dialogic approach to science education, which is more open to engagement with diverse voices. It combines this argument with a ... -
Teaching about places
(2014-09-01)Denise and Freeman and Alun Morgan draw on the work of contemporary academic geographers to propose a three lamps model for teaching about places, including positivist, humanistic and people-environment perspectives, and ... -
Informalising and Transforming Learning Experiences in an Unfamiliar Landscape: Reflections on the ‘Awayscape’ of an A-Level Geography Field Trip
(Palgrave MacmillanCham, 2022-06-17)This chapter explores the role of geography fieldwork in providing opportunities for young people to engage with unfamiliar places. We argue that, within school geography, there is usually a largely utilitarian rationale ... -
The pursuit of compassionate hope: repurposing the University through the Sustainable Development agenda
(PalgraveLondon, 2019)Abstract. Warwick, Morgan and Miller offer an important exploration of higher education for hope within the civic context of global social justice and environmental points of crisis. Focusing on the UN Sustainable ... -
Inclusive place-based education for ‘Just Sustainability’
(Informa UK Limited, 2012-06)This paper identifies an emerging commonality between the professional spheres of planning, education and social or community work constellating around the concept of sustainable development (SD). It explores the contested ... -
All Aboard for Ocean Literacy: Marine Outdoor Environmental Learning in the South West of England
(Springer International Publishing, 2022-03-03)The ocean and seas are emerging as a new focus for environmental concern both globally and locally with issues such as rising sea temperatures, increasing levels of acidity and pollution alongside declining biodiversity ... -
Informalising and Transforming Learning Experiences in an Unfamiliar Landscape: Reflections on the ‘Awayscape’ of an A-Level Geography Field Trip
(Springer International Publishing, 2022)This chapter explores the role of geography fieldwork in providing opportunities for young people to engage with unfamiliar places. We argue that, within school geography, there is usually a largely utilitarian rationale ... -
Educational research: an unorthodox introduction
(Informa UK Limited, 2022-10-20)