Journal Article
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Walsh, G. (2021) Signalling Playfulness: Disguising work as play in the early years classroom
Play has been widely investigated from a practice-based perspective; playfulness as an effective pedagogical tool has received less attention. Over […]
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Beck, G. (2021) In Need of Review: Developing Sensory Provision in Northern Ireland’s Mainstream Primary Classrooms
The impact of Sensory Processing Difficulties across a range of Special Educational Needs is well researched. More recently, the impact […]
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McClelland, D. and Purdy, N. (2021) Contested childhoods across borders and boundaries: Insights from curriculum provisions in Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in the 1920s
Conceptualisations and constructs of children and childhood are temporally and contextually grounded. Historical documents are rich sources of insight and […]
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Purdy, N. (2021) Attitudes to Sexting Amongst Post-Primary Pupils in Northern Ireland: a Liberal Feminist Approach
This study focuses on sexting amongst young people in Northern Ireland about which there is, as yet, very little qualitative […]
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Purdy, N. (2021) The Challenges and Opportunities of Conducting PhD Participatory Action Research on Sensitive Issues: Young People and Sexting
This paper presents the challenges and opportunities of using a participatory action research (PAR) methodology in a social science PhD […]
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Purdy, N. (2020) Assessing the value of SCOTENS as a cross-border professional learning network in Ireland using the Wenger–Trayner value-creation framework
SCoTENS (the Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South) is a unique network of teacher educators from north and […]

Purdy, N., Ballentine, M., Lyle, H., Orr, K., Symington, E., Webster, D., York, L., (2023) Growing Up Online: Children’s online activities, harm and safety in Northern Ireland – an Evidence Report.
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Jones, Sharon (2023) The Shortest Way Home? A Geo-critical return to CS Lewis’s Prince Caspian
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