Research Expertise
Educational Research
The following highlights our research expertise in this area:
Applied Arts:
Art and technology; arts in education; arts in society; education interface;
creative industries.
Business and Computer
Education:
Pedagogy and assessment/evaluation of information and computer technology
(ICT) in education; educational uses of the internet/www-particularly in
primary education, social studies and business education; design and development
of multimedia resources for education; ICT competence of teachers/intending
teachers; school-FE/HE interface transition.
Community Education:
Local interpretations of sustainable development; agency and active
citizenship; local agenda 21; non-formal education and local development;
young people and territoriality; young people and alcohol; community based
adult education; community development; informal educational provision for
black and minority ethnic young people; social and emotional competence
and non-formal education; outreach and detached youth work; community learning
and development.
Computers in Education:
Development of the concept of a virtual university; quality in computer
science education.
Developmental and
Education Psychology:
Language acquisition, e.g. syntactic development, reference and communication
skill; early identification and treatment of language delay; use of acoustically
modified speech to help children with specific language impairment; children's
negotiation skills; children's understanding of issues concerning their
own safety from physical and sexual abuse, e.g. secrecy and stranger-danger;
bullying, antisocial behaviour, and the promotion of prosocial thinking;
parental perspectives on preschool provision.
Educational Studies:
Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment; discourse analysis; educational management,
effectiveness and leadership; education, societal prejudice, social conflict
and discrimination; E-learning; lifelong learning; policy related research:
policy making in Scottish education; policies, professionals and institutions;
professional education and development: research and policy; the nature
of educational research and its relation to policy and practice; social
contexts of education and allied professions; society, sport and socialisation;
teacher education and professional development.
Further Education:
Initial training and continuing professional development of teachers and
other staff in further and higher education; nurse and midwifery education;
professions ancillary to medicine; health studies; management; policy studies;
adult learning.
Language Education:
Language learning and national curriculum programmes; development of linguistic
skills; inclusive education; development of writing skills; first two years
of secondary school; creating an ethos of achievement; school self evaluation;
critical friend-role in school improvement; transition from primary to secondary
school; motivation and modern languages teaching; modern languages in the
primary school; literary studies; comparative studies in language education;
interdisciplinary projects.
Mathematics, Science
and Technological Education:
National and international assessment; curriculum development in the
primary, secondary and higher education sectors; scientific and technological
competence and literacy.
Primary Education:
Basic numeracy; basic literacy; non-maternal childcare; education of
autistic children; enterprise education.
Residential Childcare:
Evaluation of process and outcome in residential child care interventions;
the education of children and young people in care; safe caring in residential
child care; education and training of residential child care staff; comparative
approaches to residential childcare; mental health issues for children and
young people in care.
Special Educational
Needs:
Responses to individuals with identified disabilities; supporting the learning
of pupils in mainstream schools; policy issues in special education and
support for learning.
Speech and Language
Therapy:
Children's speech and language disorders; voice disorders; stammering;
motor speech disorders in adults; policy research; communication and aging;
speech and language in learning disability.
Social Studies:
Health education in secondary schools; health education in Scottish higher
education; drugs education; sex education, management in schools; 5-14 guidelines
on religious and moral education, environmental studies and health; IT research
packs for history; history education; 18th and 20th century Scottish religious
history; comparative methodologies in teaching of history; the impact of
modern studies teaching on Political Literacy; surviving the Holocaust:
the anger and guilt of Primo Levi; enterprise education; key skills; assessment
in geography; 5-14 guidelines on environmental studies; nutrition education;
healthy eating in schools; schools nutrition action groups; education for
citizenship; developing positive values in schools through teaching the
Holocaust; 5-14 social subjects enquiry skills; modern studies curriculum
structure S1-S6; religious observance in primary and secondary schools;
personal search in religious and moral education.
Departments and Specialist Centres:
These areas of research represent the activities of a number of University Departments and Specialist Centre Centres including:
- Childhood & Primary Studies
- Creative and Aesthetic Studies
- Curricular Studies
- Educational & Professional Studies
- Applied Educational Research Centre (AERC)
- Centre for Educational Support
- Community Education Division
- Counselling Unit
- Equality and Discrimination Centre
- European Educational Research Association (EERA)
- Quality in Education Centre (QiE)
- Speech and Language Therapy Division
- The Scottish Centre for Sustainable Community Development (CADISPA)
- The Centre for Youth Work Studies
- Glasgow School of Social Work
- Professional Development Unit
- Sport, Culture & the Arts
