A comparative paper with a contribution from Dr Downey and Dr Bokhove has appeared in the International Journal of Educational Research: “Efficacy, explore, and exchange: Studies on social side of teacher education from England, Spain, and US” The abstract: This study attempts to respond to a recent call for a more social and collaborative approach…
Dr Bokhove delivered a session at Oxford University on the many forms of ‘instruction. Direct instruction is a hot topic in school, but discussions about it often end up with people talking past each other, as the term can mean several things. In this talk I will look at different ways of conceptualising ‘direct instruction’,…
The University of Southampton has been awarded a research grant from the Leverhulme Trust for a 26-month project directed by Dr Charis Voutsina. The title of the study is “Cultural rules and uses of written numerals in children’s everyday environments”. The research will employ qualitative methods and participatory data-collection tools to trace and analyse preschool…
Escape rooms are a popular game genre that has hit high streets all over the UK and the world. In the game a group of players needs to complete a number of puzzles to succeed in a mission and/or escape a locked room. Escape rooms have a huge educational potential as a tool to increase…
A new Open Access paper was published by Dr Charis Voutsina in the Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education. The paper examines qualitative differences between equations of similar syntax in mathematics textbooks and provides a nuanced determination of contextual and structural aspects of ‘variation’ in how the equal sign is presented in elementary…
The ITE Health and Wellbeing Conference is being held for the 10th year on Friday 8th November. This is an annual event that aims to increase all of the trainee teachers’ at Southampton confidence and competence to deal with and teach the health and wellbeing issues that pupils may face. It involves a multi-disciplinary team…
Dr Christian Bokhove of the MSHE centre recently went to Groningen, the Netherlands for the first kickoff meeting of the RiTE project. The aim of the RiTE-project is to promote and facilitate (student) teachers to create an evidence informed teaching practice in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. In this project, (student) teachers are…
Speaker: Professor Matthew Inglis (University of Loughborough) Title: Five decades of theory in education research. When and where: Tuesday 19 November 2-3pm Highfield Campus, University of Southampton Building 32 room 2103 What is your talk about? Mathematics educators have been publishing their work in international research journals for five decades. How has the field developed…
Giving young people the opportunity to make positive changes to their own health through scientific discovery has always been at the heart of an innovative education project based in Southampton. Now, LifeLab has been recognised as a Centre of Excellence by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) for its work in supporting young people…
The LifeLab project is senting a wide range of their work at the prestigious DOHaD conference in Melbourne this week. From the Southampton Education School Katherine Woods-Townsend, Lisa Bagust, Hannah Davey, Donna Lovelock, Janice Griffiths and Marcus Grace all worked with Southampton colleagues at the Southampton General Hospital on a variety of projects on LifeLab’s…