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Andrea Mantegna's Wedding Chamber
The Wedding Chamber fresco, also known as Camera Picta, or La Camera Degli Sposi, painted by Andrea Mantegna at the dawn of the Renaissance, epitomizes the most outstanding expression of personal creativity and innovation from...
‘I am just a loser of higher education’
Shanshan Guan, Andrea Abbas
Dec 31, 2022

This paper proposes a unique framework for comparative analysis of different Adult Higher Education (AHE) systems. The framework combines, a conceptualisation of how students’ outcomes are shaped by the way that they and...

Teaching Excellence in the Disciplines
The project on which this report is based was commissioned by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) to examine the extent to which disciplinary differences remain central to judgements about the quality or excellence of teaching in...
Published by: Higher Education Academy
Teaching Excellence in the Disciplines
The project on which this report is based was commissioned by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) to examine the extent to which disciplinary differences remain central to judgements about the quality or excellence of teaching in...
Published by: Higher Education Academy
‘Not everybody walks around and thinks “That’s an example of othering or stigmatisation”’

This article places itself in conversation with literature about how the experience and outcomes of university education are structured by intersections between social class, ethnicity, gender, age and type of university...

‘I am just a loser of higher education’
Shanshan Guan, Andrea Abbas
Dec 31, 2022

This paper proposes a unique framework for comparative analysis of different Adult Higher Education (AHE) systems. The framework combines, a conceptualisation of how students’ outcomes are shaped by the way that they and...

Quality and Inequality in Undergraduate Courses
Summary of Main Findings
‘The Pedagogic Quality and Inequality in University First
Degrees Project’ was a longitudinal investigation of sociology and related social science degree courses in four universities see...
Published by: University of Nottingham
Representations of a high-quality system of undergraduate education in English higher education policy documents
This article examines the ways in which a high-quality system of undergraduate education is represented in recent policy documents from a range of actors interested in higher education. Drawing on Basil Bernstein’s ideas, the...
Qualitative Life-grids

Drawing upon their large three-year mixed-method study comparing four English university sociology departments, the authors demonstrate the benefits to be gained from concisely recording biographical stories on life-grids....

Quality and Inequality in Undergraduate Courses
Summary of Main Findings
‘The Pedagogic Quality and Inequality in University First
Degrees Project’ was a longitudinal investigation of sociology and related social science degree courses in four universities see...
Published by: University of Nottingham
The influence of curricula content on English sociology students' transformations
Previous research identifies the importance of feminist knowledge
for improving gender equity, economic prosperity and social
justice for all. However, there are difficulties in embedding
feminist knowledge in higher...
How do students' accounts of sociology change over the course of their undergraduate degrees?

In this article we examine how students' accounts of the discipline of sociology change over the course of their undergraduate degrees. Based on a phenomenographic analysis of 86 interviews with 32 sociology and criminology...

‘Not everybody walks around and thinks “That’s an example of othering or stigmatisation”’

This article places itself in conversation with literature about how the experience and outcomes of university education are structured by intersections between social class, ethnicity, gender, age and type of university...

Representations of a high-quality system of undergraduate education in English higher education policy documents
This article examines the ways in which a high-quality system of undergraduate education is represented in recent policy documents from a range of actors interested in higher education. Drawing on Basil Bernstein’s ideas, the...
A Bernsteinian view of learning and teaching undergraduate sociology-based social science
Taking a perspective drawn from Basil Bernstein, the paper locates itself at the boundary between teaching as transmitting disciplinary knowledge and teaching as a set of generic ‘good practice’ principles. It first discusses...
How does completing a dissertation transform undergraduate students’ understandings of disciplinary knowledge?
Dissertations are positioned as the capstone of an undergraduate degree, bringing together what students have previously learned from their programmes through a piece of independent research. However, there is limited research...
How do students' accounts of sociology change over the course of their undergraduate degrees?

In this article we examine how students' accounts of the discipline of sociology change over the course of their undergraduate degrees. Based on a phenomenographic analysis of 86 interviews with 32 sociology and criminology...

Qualitative Life-grids

Drawing upon their large three-year mixed-method study comparing four English university sociology departments, the authors demonstrate the benefits to be gained from concisely recording biographical stories on life-grids....

A Bernsteinian view of learning and teaching undergraduate sociology-based social science
Taking a perspective drawn from Basil Bernstein, the paper locates itself at the boundary between teaching as transmitting disciplinary knowledge and teaching as a set of generic ‘good practice’ principles. It first discusses...
The Origin of Inequality. Origini 3, edited by Andrea Cardarelli, Alberto Cazzella and Marcella Frangipane
The article reviews The Origins of Inequality, a collection of essays brought together by Andrea Cardarelli, Alberto Cazzella and Marcella Frangipane following a series of seminars on this theme at the University of Roma La...
How does completing a dissertation transform undergraduate students’ understandings of disciplinary knowledge?
Dissertations are positioned as the capstone of an undergraduate degree, bringing together what students have previously learned from their programmes through a piece of independent research. However, there is limited research...
Conceptualising transformative undergraduate experiences
Existing ways of understanding the transformative potential of students’ undergraduate experiences either focus solely on the formal educational elements of these experiences or present an overly static picture of students’...
Conceptualising transformative undergraduate experiences
Existing ways of understanding the transformative potential of students’ undergraduate experiences either focus solely on the formal educational elements of these experiences or present an overly static picture of students’...
The influence of curricula content on English sociology students' transformations
Previous research identifies the importance of feminist knowledge
for improving gender equity, economic prosperity and social
justice for all. However, there are difficulties in embedding
feminist knowledge in higher...
Mark Anthony Carpio
Jan 17, 2014
Plenary Keynote Presentation V: Panel Presentation from The Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium VIII. Held at Memorial University, St. John's NL, 2011. Introduction: Andrea Rose (Memorial University of Newfoundland...
Published by: Faculty of Education

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