Browsing Psychology, Sociology and Education by Research Centre "Centre for Applied Social Sciences"
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The problem with randomised controlled trials for Education
(Routledge, 2020-01-22)Terry Wrigley engages with Philpott & Poultney’s (2018) chapter on randomized control trials (RCTs), particularly the debates around whether they are a useful approach for informing teaching and school development. He ... -
Legacy of art making: Finding the world
(Palgrave, 2020)Arts in Health has become both an umbrella term for a variety of creative interventions in health settings and for a disciplinary arena in which the borders of psychology, therapy and community arts practice are blurred, ... -
Collective directional movement and the perception of social cohesion
(Wiley, 2020)We argue that perceivers associate collective directional movement – groups moving from one place to the next – with higher levels of social cohesion. Study 1 shows that pairs are rated as being more cohesive when described ... -
Mediating the flow of professional capital: The potential of technology for rural teachers professional learning in Scotland
(SPERA, 2019-11-30)Professional learning opportunities for teachers working in rural settings can be restricted by the time, distance and cost involved in accessing face-to-face events. The expansion of internet connectivity to rural areas ... -
A conversation analysis of communicative changes in a time-limited psychotherapy group for mothers with post-natal depression
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-11-26)Objective: To examine qualitatively changes occurring in discussions within a time-limited psychotherapy group for mothers with post-natal depression. -
‘A Golly was simply a toy. End of.’: Inoculation, attention deflection, and attempted puzzle-resolution in contesting racism in online discussions
(Wiley, 2019-11-06)In producing arguments against minority groups that are designed to avoid accusations of prejudice, speakers routinely deploy two discursive strategies. One strategy of ‘inoculation’ seeks to ward off such accusations, ... -
Social justice re-examined: Dilemmas and solutions for the classroom teacher [Second Edition]
(Trentham, 2019-11-04)UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION Teachers want to do their best for every child, but worry about causing offence and often shy away from troublesome issues. The classroom situations and strategies presented here will help ... -
Fuel for the Fire: Tradition and the gender controversy in Lerwick’s Up Helly Aa
(Edinburgh University Press, 2019-11)Shetland’s world-famous Viking-themed Up Helly Aa fire festival is a distinctive celebration of community and heritage. Recently media attention and local debate has begun to focus on an ongoing controversy surrounding the ... -
Leadership perception in candidate faces: Scotland’s unionists prefer dominant leaders, and so do nationalists – but only if they are economic pessimists
(Edinburgh University Press, 2019-10-31)Voters rely on many cues to make decisions about who to vote for, and the appearance of a potential leader can play an important part in this decision-making process. When choosing leaders, it is thought that voters make ... -
Imagine all the people: Contact interventions and prejudice towards immigrants in schools
(British Psychological Society, 2019-09-30)The world that John Lennon imagined in 1971 seems like a far cry from the one we see today. In our increasingly globalized world, rather than sharing among people, recent years have seen a sharp rise in anti-immigrant ... -
Collective learning in and from social movements: The Bhopal disaster survivors
(Routledge, 2019-07-30)The issues facing social work are those which social movements have raised and made demands on the state to address. Social movements develop their self-understanding of these demands through collective learning based on ... -
Public sociology and social movements: Incorporation or a war of position?
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019-06-14)Activist academics have attempted to challenge neoliberalism in higher education through pedagogical and research engagement with social movements. This chapter draws on the experience of working with movements against ... -
Evidence-based teaching: A simple view of “science”
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-06)This paper examines the insistent claims by advocates of evidence-based teaching that it is a rigorous scientific approach. The paper questions the view that randomised controlled trials and meta-analyses are the only truly ... -
Environmental justice, popular struggle and community development
(Policy Press, 2019-06-05)Struggles for environmental justice involve communities mobilising against powerful forces which advocate ‘development’, driven increasingly by neoliberal imperatives. In doing so, communities face questions about their ... -
Communities resisting environmental injustice in India: Philanthrocapitalism and incorporation of people’s movements
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Community, development and popular struggles for environmental justice
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The environment as a site of struggle against settler-colonisation in Palestine
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Children’s social appraisal of exclusion in friendship groups
(Springer, 2019-05-16)Previous research has shown that group processes are particularly pertinent to children’s bullying, and who they socially exclude and include. This paper looks at how children’s responses to social exclusion change according ...