Learning styles in the classroom: Educational benefit or planning exercise? (2010)
Journal Article
(2010). Learning styles in the classroom: Educational benefit or planning exercise?. Psychology Teaching Review, 67 -77

Differentiation of teaching is encouraged to accommodate student diversity. This study investigated whether using learning styles as a basis for differentiation improved A-level student performance, compared to differentiation on the basis of academi... Read More about Learning styles in the classroom: Educational benefit or planning exercise?.

Directives: Entitlement and contingency in action (2010)
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(2010). Directives: Entitlement and contingency in action. Discourse Studies, 419 -442. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445610370126

This article is focused on the nature of directives. It draws on Curl and Drew’s (2008) analysis of entitlement and contingency in request types and applies this to a corpus of directives that occur in UK family mealtimes involving parents and young... Read More about Directives: Entitlement and contingency in action.

Que(e)rying Violence: Rethinking Pleasure, Harm and Intimacy in Lesbian Sadomasochism (2010)
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(2010). Que(e)rying Violence: Rethinking Pleasure, Harm and Intimacy in Lesbian Sadomasochism

Intimacy and violence, often seen as antithetical concepts, have been increasingly intertwined concepts in the diverse sexual practices of lesbian women. In thinking through this relationship, it is important to ask how policy and legal approaches co... Read More about Que(e)rying Violence: Rethinking Pleasure, Harm and Intimacy in Lesbian Sadomasochism.

Grouping puts figure-ground assignment in context by constraining propagation of edge assignment (2010)
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Brooks. (2010). Grouping puts figure-ground assignment in context by constraining propagation of edge assignment. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 1431- 1431. https://doi.org/10.3758/APP.72.5.1431

Figure-ground organization involves the assignment of edges to a figural shape on one or the other side of each dividing edge. Established visual cues for edge assignment primarily concern relatively local rather than contextual factors. In the prese... Read More about Grouping puts figure-ground assignment in context by constraining propagation of edge assignment.