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Maltese primary teachers’ perceptions on the inclusion of students with autism in the mainstream classroom: A Critical Disability Theory perspective (2025)
Thesis
Borg Saliba, N. Maltese primary teachers’ perceptions on the inclusion of students with autism in the mainstream classroom: A Critical Disability Theory perspective. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109894

The number of students with autism in mainstream classrooms is globally surging year after year. As a result, teachers are experiencing extra pressure and increased responsibility to effectively meet these students’ individual needs and ensure their... Read More about Maltese primary teachers’ perceptions on the inclusion of students with autism in the mainstream classroom: A Critical Disability Theory perspective.

Analysing power dynamics in teachers’ understanding of policies through storytelling about refugees in the East Midlands region (2024)
Thesis
Hewitt, S. Analysing power dynamics in teachers’ understanding of policies through storytelling about refugees in the East Midlands region. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1012522

The aim of this thesis was to use storytelling to determine how five teachers in the East Midlands assimilated conflicting discourses into practice and whether they aligned policy with personal and professional beliefs, ultimately identifying if they... Read More about Analysing power dynamics in teachers’ understanding of policies through storytelling about refugees in the East Midlands region.

Network analysis and teaching excellence as a concept of relations (2024)
Journal Article
Hayes, A., & Garnett, N. (in press). Network analysis and teaching excellence as a concept of relations. Teaching in Higher Education, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2024.2341417

The aim of this paper is to foreground network analysis as a statistical lens through which higher education institutions can articulate their own process of striving for teaching excellence, and how it is constituted in their own contexts. The paper... Read More about Network analysis and teaching excellence as a concept of relations.

A social realist challenge to the structuring of professional practice knowledge for initial teacher education in England (2023)
Thesis
Swift, D. A social realist challenge to the structuring of professional practice knowledge for initial teacher education in England. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/518059

Professional practice knowledge for beginning teachers involves grappling with the extent to which ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ should be evident during initial teacher education courses. The end point assessment tool for such programmes in England is tha... Read More about A social realist challenge to the structuring of professional practice knowledge for initial teacher education in England.

An investigation into how professionals in English schools adapt to changes in careers information, advice and guidance policy (2019)
Thesis
Hackfath, I. R. An investigation into how professionals in English schools adapt to changes in careers information, advice and guidance policy. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413068

This research explores the process by which school senior leaders and careers advisers received and enacted a change in Careers Information, Advice and Guidance (CIAG) policy. In 2012 the statutory responsibility to provide independent CIAG transferr... Read More about An investigation into how professionals in English schools adapt to changes in careers information, advice and guidance policy.