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Academies : Diversity, economism and contending forces for change
Woods, Philip (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)The focus of this chapter is the UK government’s academies programme in England and the contending forces that characterise this key policy aimed at bringing about transformational change in education. First, a brief outline ... -
Academy schools and entrepreneurialism in education
Woods, Philip; Woods, Glenys J.; Gunter, H. (2007)The academy schools programme in England is presented by Government as the means by which increased diversity and private participation in the provision of public education can be used to solve educational and wider social ... -
The Action – Reflection – Modelling (ARM) Pedagogical Approach for Teacher Education: a Malaysia-UK Project
Jarvis, Joy; Dickerson, Claire; Thomas, Keith; Graham, Sally (2014-01-21)This article presents the Action – Reflection – Modelling (ARM) pedagogical approach for teacher education developed during a Malaysia-UK collaborative project to construct a Bachelor of Education (Honours) degree programme ... -
Against Ideology: Democracy and the human interaction sphere
Woods, Philip (Routledge, 2016-04-28)This chapter argues that democracy should not be seen as an ideology and that it is important to to be explicit about why this is the case. Its specific focus is the notion of holistic democracy. A distinction is drawn ... -
Aligning the times: exploring the convergence of researchers, policy makers and research evidence in higher education policy making
Smith, Karen; Fernie, Scott; Pilcher, Nick (2020-04-26)The complexity of contemporary higher education policy making and the multitude of evidences and actors in policy networks mean that relationships between higher education researchers, policy makers and research evidence ... -
Anchoring Leadership [keynote introduction]
Woods, Philip (2012)In this Introduction, I examine what accumulating research evidence appears to be telling us about leadership and about flatter organisational structures and the restructuring of leadership into more distributed patterns. ... -
Arts Therapies And Psychotherapy Training: An International Survey
Payne, Helen (2002)This paper presents a comparative analysis of data received from the dissemination of a qualitative questionnaire to 12 countries. The survey was concerned with the extent to which group therapy was incorporated into the ... -
Authentic movement and supervision
Payne, Helen (2001)This paper explores the ways in which the discipline of Authentic Movement (Pallaro 1999) might be used as an avenue for developing the ‘wise inner teacher/higher self’ (Rowan 1993) or the ‘internal supervisor’ (Casement ... -
Authentic Movement, Groups and Psychotherapy
Payne, Helen (2003)Authentic Movement is a newly emerging discipline of kinetic meditation through which the participant can learn to engage with a direct experience of herself, the group and the transpersonal. This is an experience beyond ... -
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Authenticity in the bureau-enterprise culture: the struggle for authentic meaning
Woods, Philip (2007)This article emphasises the extent to which conceptions of authenticity are forged through social interaction and socially mediated identities and how, in turn, authentic leadership involves the transformation of the ... -
Authority, Power and Distributed Leadership
Woods, Philip (2016-10-18)A much greater understanding is needed of power in the practice of distributed leadership. This article explores how the concept of social authority might be helpful in achieving this. It suggests that the practice of ... -
Autonomy and Regulation in the School System in England
Woods, Philip; Roberts, Amanda; Jarvis, Joy; Culshaw, Suzanne (Springer Nature Link, 2020-05-29)The chapter examines the school system in England, concentrating on developments since 2010. During this period, a radical refashioning of the school system in England has taken place as large numbers of schools have moved ... -
Autonomy, Leadership and Leadership Development in England’s School System
Woods, Philip; Roberts, Amanda; Jarvis, Joy; Culshaw, Suzanne (2021-03-15)The policy context for schools in England places great emphasis on leadership and autonomy as drivers of educational improvement. The purpose of this article is to explore how we can better understand, in this context, the ... -
Because we're worth it : Do students really define themselves in terms of their market value?
Berry, Jon (2015-06-01)This is a position paper that challenges the hegemony of neoliberalism and marketisation as the dominant forces currently shaping higher education. It argues that too much academic commentary focuses on analysis of the ... -
Becoming a Client, Becoming a Practitioner : Student Narratives from a Dance Movement Therapy Group
Payne, Helen (2004)This paper documents one of several themes arising from a larger research study which invited trainees' views on their experience in a weekly, 2 year, dance movement therapy (DMT) personal development group. This group ... -
Being a teacher and a teacher educator – developing a new identity?
White, Elizabeth (2014-05-27)The shift towards school-led teacher education steered by the government in England challenges the ‘traditional’ model of experienced teachers leaving school and entering the higher education sector to become teacher ... -
Being moved: Kinaesthetic reciprocities in psychotherapeutic interaction and the development of enactive intersubjectivity
Samaritter, Rosemarie; Payne, Helen (2016-08-21)This paper will present an art-based frame of reference to psychotherapeutic intervention. Structures form clinical Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) will serve as an example to investigate the specific contributions of ... -
[beta]2-Adrenoceptor gene polymorphisms and blood pressure variations in East Anglian Caucasians
Jia, H.; Sharma, P.; Hopper, R.; Dickerson, Claire; Lloyd, D.D.; Brown, M.J. (2000)Objective: The amino-terminal polymorphisms, Arg16Gly and Gln27Glu, of the [beta]2-adrenergic receptor ([beta]2AR) have been shown to affect regulation of the receptor expression by an agonist in cell culture studies. The ... -
'Better Together' : Establishing an effective and sustainable (relational) peer coaching process for staff in the Higher Education Sector: an exploratory project
Weston, Kathryn; Graham, Sally (University of Hertfordshire, 2013)This report presents the findings from a small, qualitative project which aimed to explore strategies for establishing an effective and sustainable (relational) peer coaching process for staff working across the Higher ...