...Owen Smith; Engela van der Klashorst; Marcelle Cacciattolo Purpose Youth workers play an important role in the social and educational development of young people across sectors. These sectors include schools, out-of-homecare, child protection, community-based settings, advocacy and sports. Youth...

...Katherine Halcrow Purpose This paper describes oral language as a multi-faceted and unconstrained phenomenon, including its social purpose in societies and the implications of this for education. It provides a critique of the concepts of oral language which have come to dominate literacy...

...-centric nursing education. Design/methodology/approach Utilizing a case study approach, a collaboration between Māori and non-Māori nursing academics describes the development of two Māori-centric postgraduate courses. This approach allows for an exploration of the contextual factors surrounding sites...

...' experiences of current trends in education. The intent was to situate the research as a critical interruption into the bigger political discourses surrounding education. The study sought to question why pedagogical practices are increasingly being positioned and located for political and economic reasons...

... educational futures. Originality/value There a few accounts of teachers' policy experience in government school settings implementing the IB-PYP. In addressing this gap, this paper directly responds to prior claims of the IB's failure to promote an emancipatory pedagogy, showing instead that when teachers...

...Balwant Kaur Purpose This paper explores the contextual factors that support the necessity of a diversified curriculum. The author draws on the findings of the author's doctoral research to consider the complexities underpinning the educational narratives of South Asian Muslim women. The paper...

... considered children's perspectives and expectations and usually described their performance in terms of what they could not do. An exception to this occurred in post-war northern Italy in the town of Reggio Emilia. Educators in Reggio Emilia both drew on, and moved away from, Piaget's theories, and suggested...

...Shelley Margaret Hannigan; Jo Raphael Purpose This paper explains a collaborative self-study research project that included an evolving arts-based inquiry (ABI) approach. The combined experiences of a visual artist/art educator and a drama educator, informed the design and use of ABI strategies...

... Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Feminism Qualitative research Education Arts education What started as a group of women in an education graduate course exploring the difficulties in creating a lip sync video to the song “Supermodel Astronaut...

... to engage in decoloniality. Originality/value – Engagement with the past and present legacy of colonial practice in education and ethnography is crucial if the author want to move beyond social justice and decoloniality as metaphor. The writing practice put forward is new and challenging in its push...

... educationally significant curriculum into the everyday life of a childcare facility for the group of preschool children between 0 and 4 years old. In this context our research project also pays special attention to linguistic practices in early education institutions which, in Luxembourg, are regularly...

... study. It contributes to the broader literature related to educational research through consideration of the personal decision making by the researcher and complex demands of this type of research. This is achieved through a contextualisation of the researcher's experiences within key arguments...

... on the monological, dialogic and imagistic ‘data’ from the ethnocinematic research project Cross‐Marked: Sudanese Australian Young Women Talk Education, the article uses ethnographic documentary film theory (including Minh‐ha, Rouch, and Aufderheide) and the critical pedagogical scholarship of McLaren to examine...