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View article: Exploring Bilinguality, Agility, and Agency in a Welsh Classroom through Mobile Media-making
Exploring Bilinguality, Agility, and Agency in a Welsh Classroom through Mobile Media-making Open
This video article reports on a film-making pilot study with a group of eleven- to twelve-year-olds, conducted in a bilingual (Welsh-English) secondary school in West Wales, in 2023. The study sought to explore how mobile media-making tech…
View article: Where is the ‘New’? Teachers’ perceptions of the opportunities and challenges for the Expressive Arts AoLE in the Curriculum for Wales (2022)
Where is the ‘New’? Teachers’ perceptions of the opportunities and challenges for the Expressive Arts AoLE in the Curriculum for Wales (2022) Open
The new Curriculum for Wales officially began its national roll-out in September 2022 after a five-year period of consultation and co-construction. This ambitious educational reform is underpinned by a philosophy of pedagogic flexibility a…
View article: Secondary school teachers' perceptions of the shared creative processes and the potential role of technology in the expressive arts
Secondary school teachers' perceptions of the shared creative processes and the potential role of technology in the expressive arts Open
With the introduction of Curriculum for Wales and the restructuring of subjects into Areas of Learning and Experience (AoLE), each AoLE is encouraged to have ‘an identifiable disciplinary and instrumental core’. When considered in combinat…
View article: ‘My picture is not in Wales’: pupils’ perceptions of cynefin (Belonging) in primary school curriculum development in Wales
‘My picture is not in Wales’: pupils’ perceptions of cynefin (Belonging) in primary school curriculum development in Wales Open
In the new Curriculum for Wales (Cwricwlwm i Gymru) which is phasing in from September 2022, the concept of 'cynefin' ('the place where we feel we belong') is core to developing children's understandings of place and identity. While cynefi…
View article: Strike a pose! Continuity and change in school class photographs: Shifting representations of education and childhood through time
Strike a pose! Continuity and change in school class photographs: Shifting representations of education and childhood through time Open
Using a montage of school class photographs (1885-2015) from a small town in Wales, this article tracks continuity and change relating to how social constructions of ‘education’ and ‘childhood’ are visually represented through time. Drawin…