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Childhood and Youth Studies

The Children's Research Centre

The CRC is all about children by children. Our primary objective is to empower children and young people as active researchers.

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TalkFactory

With the current focus on oracy throughout the English national curriculum, there is a demand for educational technologies which support both teachers and learners in developing their awareness of, and engagement in, educationally beneficial dialogic interactions in the classroom.

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Youth Voice in the Work of Creative Partnerships

This research project explores youth voice initiatives within Creative Partnerships.

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The Making of Modern Motherhoods

The aim of the study is to provide a picture of what it means to be a mother in the twenty first century.

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Educational Studies

Creative Little Scientists

The Creative Little Scientists project constitutes a timely contribution to a better understanding, at the European level, of the potential available on the common ground that science and mathematics education in pre-school and early primary school (up to the age of 8) can share with creativity.

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Teaching Reading and Literacy across International Boundries: History, Policy and Politics

The project draws upon newspaper, primary sources and archival based material from the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Consequently, the project will have considerable interdisciplinary and international impact.

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Language Learning at Key Stage 2: A Longitudinal Study

In 2006, a team of researchers from the Open University, the University of Southampton and Canterbury Christ Church University were commissioned by the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to conduct a three-year longitudinal study.

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Our Story

Reading, even in the digital age, is probably one of the most important skills that children acquire. It can be an important source of pleasure which also develops vital language and social skills. It is fundamental to most school activities, it can also open up new worlds and give access to the wealth of human knowledge. The Our Story app that has been developed by child psychologists and other specialists at the Open University enables young children to take part in fun games which can help develop interests and skills that will be relevant to them when they start to read.

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Learning to read in the 21st century

Literacy has always been a social practice. But in the twenty-first century, it is a changing form due to the rapid proliferation of digital technologies.

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Language and Literacies

The Discourse of Organic Food Promotion: language, intention, and effects

The UK Organic food market is now the third largest in the world, with a value of two billion dollars and an annual growth rate of approximately 10% (Sahota 2007).

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Multimodal Literacies

The research project Multimodal Literacies in the Early Years explored what learning to be ‘literate’ means for young children growing up in today’s media-rich world.

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Professional Academic Writing in a Global Context

Professional Academic Writing in a Global Context is a longitudinal study focusing on the politics and practices of academic text production in a global context.

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Metaphor Analysis Project

The Metaphor Analysis project is a research project funded by the ESRC's National Centre for Research Methodology.

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Interactive Whiteboards as Pedagogic Tools in Primary Schools

This project will use observations in four primary classrooms to provide a more detached and theoretically informed study of how whiteboards are used by teachers, in the context of established classroom practices, patterns of classroom interaction and educational goals.

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Digital Literacies in Higher Education (DigitaLits)

This research project sets out to examine the real nature of digital literacies for today’s undergraduates.

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Arguing in History

Arguing in history is a research project based at the Open University and funded by the ESRC (Ref no - RES-000-22-1453).

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Technology Enhanced Learning

Personal Inquiry Project: Helping Young People to Understand the World

The project aims to help young people to acquire the knowledge and skills they need to understand and contribute to their changing world.

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Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

CASTL represents a major initiative of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The CASTL Program seeks to support the development of a scholarship of teaching and learning.

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About us

Member of CREET undertake outward-looking research that has a beneficial impact on learning practices, policies and public debates. On this site you can:

Featured projects

  • Creative Little Scientists

    The Creative Little Scientists project constitutes a timely contribution to a better understanding, at the European level, of the potential...

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  • The Children's Research Centre

    The CRC is all about children by children. Our primary objective is to empower children and young people as active researchers.

  • TalkFactory

    By: Cindy Kerawalla

    With the current focus on oracy throughout the English national curriculum, there is a demand for educational technologies which support both...

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