Paul Newton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Newton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Newton |
| SIGNATURE | NEWTON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5187-5665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Student-centered leadership in higher education
Student engagement, learning outcomes, and competency development have garnered growing attention in higher education. However, academic leaders often face challenges in fostering holistic student learning while also enhancing student career prospects. Drawing on student-centered leadership (SCL) theory, this study examines how university Department Heads (DHs) facilitate student learning and development, and explores the extent to which the K-12…
Systematic scoping review of the noma evidence landscape
BACKGROUND: Noma (cancrum oris) is a severe gangrenous disease of the mouth and oro-facial structures. Noma often affects young children living in extreme poverty, malnutrition and poor sanitation. Gaps remain in understanding its aetiology, pathogenesis, prevention and treatment. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We systematically searched databases for all primary research studies (clinical trials, cohort studies, case-control, cross-sectional, other obser…
At the helm
Learning and teaching (L&T) effectiveness is crucial for university success. The literature indicates that Department Chairs often struggle to improve L&T quality within their units due to the under-resourcing and undervaluing of their leadership roles. In this article, through document analysis and semi-structured interviews with Department Chairs, 1 and through an L&T leadership lens, we explore their experiences in faculty support and developm…
Insights into Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) continues to be a serious public health issue, particularly in Ghana. It is crucial to create evidence-based, preventative measures to stop IVP. This study empirically investigated the factors related to married women’s perceptions of male IPV against women. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Goal 5.2) advocate for the elimination of male violence against women by governments, hence this study…
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health around the world. Previous publications have estimated the effect of AMR on incidence, deaths, hospital length of stay, and health-care costs for specific pathogen-drug combinations in select locations. To our knowledge, this study presents the most comprehensive estimates of AMR burden to date. METHODS: We estimated deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) a…
Implementation of novel and conventional outbreak control measures in managing Covid-19 outbreaks in a large UK prison
Identifying and isolating infected prisoners, cohorting new admissions and shielding vulnerable individuals helped prevent uncontrollable spread of SARS-COV-2. These novel and cost-effective approaches can be implemented in correctional facilities globally
Evaluating the REP-S brief resilience intervention for students in higher education
There is currently an unmet need in higher education for a structured, pre-emptive programme of support to help students enhance their resilience to stress. This article presents a mixed-methods evaluation of a transferable biopsychosocial resilience intervention for students – the Resilience Enhancement Programme for Students (REP-S). In Study 1, a randomised control trial showed that participating in the intervention was associated with signifi…
Structural barriers to measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) immunisation uptake in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the United Kingdom
Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT) experience a significantly high number of measles cases and have low levels of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) immunisation. There is little evidence on: why immunisation levels are low; beliefs and practices surrounding the MMR vaccine; or the factors that promote or hinder uptake. This paper presents data from five focus groups with 16 GRT mothers in Kent, South East England. Between them, they had 35 childre…
Teaching Principals in Small Rural Schools
This paper presents the results of interviews with 12 Manitoba and Alberta rural teaching principals regarding their leadership practices in small schools. The overwhelming theme mentioned by these teaching principals was the joy and sense of purpose they found in the relationships they cultivated with children, staff, and community members because of the ‘advantages’ they had working in small schools. The paper details the small schools context …
Toward an Ontology of Practices in Educational Administration
In this article, we argue for a study of educational administration centered on an ontology of practices. This is an initial proposal for thinking about and conceptualizing practices in educational administration. To do this, first, we explore how practices are constituted and how they configure the social realities of practitioners. Second, we explore what an ontology of practices has to offer for our understanding of organizations. Third, we ex…
The context of empowerment and self-care within the field of diabetes
There is a growing emphasis within the diabetes literature on the importance of empowerment as a way of encouraging people to take control of and responsibility for the successful management of their disease. Patients are actively encouraged to become active participants in their care, and there is an expectation that health-care professionals will facilitate this process. This article uses Bourdieu's concept of field, as a bounded social space i…
The Teaching Principal
This paper reports on an interpretive study that examined the role of the teaching principal, particularly as it relates to principals’ moral and legal requirement to work as instructional leaders for student learning. A teaching principal is defined as a principal who has a “double load” or dual roles in teaching and administration (Clarke & Stevens, 2009). In this study, we explored the constitution and effects of this role on individuals and l…
Capital transactions, disruptions and the emergence of personal capital in a lifeworld under attack
Exploring Types of Educational Action Research
In this paper the authors argue that there are three modes of educational action research: emancipatory, practical, and knowledge generating. Furthermore, they suggest that much of action research, although predicated on notions of emancipatory research, is often not primarily emancipatory in nature. There are considerable risks involved when action research fails to adequately justify its truth claims because of a dependence on validities that p…
The defensibility of national curriculum assessment in England
In a series of recent papers, Dylan Wiliam has criticized national curriculum testing in England, on grounds of validity and reliability, and has expressed concern that formative assessment aims have been seriously neglected. He has argued that these problems can be overcome, but only through an alternative model in which the summative function is radically reconceived and divorced from the evaluative function.Wiliam's model is reviewed and evalu…
Evidence-based policy making
En reponse a une analyse critique developpee au sujet de l'une de ses recherches, l'auteur s'attache a completer son etude et a etoffer sa prise de position concernant les problemes d'evaluation rencontres par en Grande-Bretagne dans le cadre de l'implementation du programme d'etudes national
Would the real gold standard please step forward
Debate about public examination standards has been a consistent feature of educational assessment in Britain over the past few decades. The most frequently voiced concern has been that public examination standards have fallen over the years ? for example, the so-called A level ?gold standard? may be slipping. In this paper we consider some of the claims which have been made about falling standards and argue that they reveal a variety of underlyin…
The place of argumentation in the pedagogy of school science
The research reported in this paper stemmed from our conviction that argument is a central dimension of both science and science education. Our specific intention was to determine whether secondary science teachers in England give pupils opportunities to develop and rehearse the skills of argumentation during their lessons. We found that classroom discourse was largely teacher dominated and tended not to foster the reflective discussion of scient…
Examining standards over time
Public examination results are used in a variety of ways and the ways in which they are used dictate the demands that society makes of them. Unfortunately, some of the uses to which British examination results are currently being put make unrealistic demands. Government, in particular, deems it necessary to measure the progress of 'educational standards' across decades in time and assumes that this can be achieved to some extent with reference to…
Social stability and change among forest hanuman langurs (Presbytis entellus)
Feeding and ranging patterns of forest hanuman langurs (Presbytis entellus)
Foetal arm prolapse and presumed maternal death in a wild hanuman langur (Presbytis entellus)
Feeding and ranging patterns of forest hanuman langurs (Presbytis entellus)
Exploring Types of Educational Action Research
In this paper the authors argue that there are three modes of educational action research: emancipatory, practical, and knowledge generating. Furthermore, they suggest that much of action research, although predicated on notions of emancipatory research, is often not primarily emancipatory in nature. There are considerable risks involved when action research fails to adequately justify its truth claims because of a dependence on validities that p…
Would the real gold standard please step forward
Debate about public examination standards has been a consistent feature of educational assessment in Britain over the past few decades. The most frequently voiced concern has been that public examination standards have fallen over the years ? for example, the so-called A level ?gold standard? may be slipping. In this paper we consider some of the claims which have been made about falling standards and argue that they reveal a variety of underlyin…
The context of empowerment and self-care within the field of diabetes
There is a growing emphasis within the diabetes literature on the importance of empowerment as a way of encouraging people to take control of and responsibility for the successful management of their disease. Patients are actively encouraged to become active participants in their care, and there is an expectation that health-care professionals will facilitate this process. This article uses Bourdieu's concept of field, as a bounded social space i…
Examining standards over time
Public examination results are used in a variety of ways and the ways in which they are used dictate the demands that society makes of them. Unfortunately, some of the uses to which British examination results are currently being put make unrealistic demands. Government, in particular, deems it necessary to measure the progress of 'educational standards' across decades in time and assumes that this can be achieved to some extent with reference to…
Capital transactions, disruptions and the emergence of personal capital in a lifeworld under attack
Toward an Ontology of Practices in Educational Administration
In this article, we argue for a study of educational administration centered on an ontology of practices. This is an initial proposal for thinking about and conceptualizing practices in educational administration. To do this, first, we explore how practices are constituted and how they configure the social realities of practitioners. Second, we explore what an ontology of practices has to offer for our understanding of organizations. Third, we ex…
The Teaching Principal
This paper reports on an interpretive study that examined the role of the teaching principal, particularly as it relates to principals’ moral and legal requirement to work as instructional leaders for student learning. A teaching principal is defined as a principal who has a “double load” or dual roles in teaching and administration (Clarke & Stevens, 2009). In this study, we explored the constitution and effects of this role on individuals and l…
The defensibility of national curriculum assessment in England
In a series of recent papers, Dylan Wiliam has criticized national curriculum testing in England, on grounds of validity and reliability, and has expressed concern that formative assessment aims have been seriously neglected. He has argued that these problems can be overcome, but only through an alternative model in which the summative function is radically reconceived and divorced from the evaluative function.Wiliam's model is reviewed and evalu…
Foetal arm prolapse and presumed maternal death in a wild hanuman langur (Presbytis entellus)
Feeding and ranging patterns of forest hanuman langurs (Presbytis entellus)
Social stability and change among forest hanuman langurs (Presbytis entellus)
Examining standards over time
Public examination results are used in a variety of ways and the ways in which they are used dictate the demands that society makes of them. Unfortunately, some of the uses to which British examination results are currently being put make unrealistic demands. Government, in particular, deems it necessary to measure the progress of 'educational standards' across decades in time and assumes that this can be achieved to some extent with reference to…
The place of argumentation in the pedagogy of school science
The research reported in this paper stemmed from our conviction that argument is a central dimension of both science and science education. Our specific intention was to determine whether secondary science teachers in England give pupils opportunities to develop and rehearse the skills of argumentation during their lessons. We found that classroom discourse was largely teacher dominated and tended not to foster the reflective discussion of scient…
Would the real gold standard please step forward
Debate about public examination standards has been a consistent feature of educational assessment in Britain over the past few decades. The most frequently voiced concern has been that public examination standards have fallen over the years ? for example, the so-called A level ?gold standard? may be slipping. In this paper we consider some of the claims which have been made about falling standards and argue that they reveal a variety of underlyin…
The defensibility of national curriculum assessment in England
In a series of recent papers, Dylan Wiliam has criticized national curriculum testing in England, on grounds of validity and reliability, and has expressed concern that formative assessment aims have been seriously neglected. He has argued that these problems can be overcome, but only through an alternative model in which the summative function is radically reconceived and divorced from the evaluative function.Wiliam's model is reviewed and evalu…
Evidence-based policy making
En reponse a une analyse critique developpee au sujet de l'une de ses recherches, l'auteur s'attache a completer son etude et a etoffer sa prise de position concernant les problemes d'evaluation rencontres par en Grande-Bretagne dans le cadre de l'implementation du programme d'etudes national
Exploring Types of Educational Action Research
In this paper the authors argue that there are three modes of educational action research: emancipatory, practical, and knowledge generating. Furthermore, they suggest that much of action research, although predicated on notions of emancipatory research, is often not primarily emancipatory in nature. There are considerable risks involved when action research fails to adequately justify its truth claims because of a dependence on validities that p…
Capital transactions, disruptions and the emergence of personal capital in a lifeworld under attack
The Teaching Principal
This paper reports on an interpretive study that examined the role of the teaching principal, particularly as it relates to principals’ moral and legal requirement to work as instructional leaders for student learning. A teaching principal is defined as a principal who has a “double load” or dual roles in teaching and administration (Clarke & Stevens, 2009). In this study, we explored the constitution and effects of this role on individuals and l…
Toward an Ontology of Practices in Educational Administration
In this article, we argue for a study of educational administration centered on an ontology of practices. This is an initial proposal for thinking about and conceptualizing practices in educational administration. To do this, first, we explore how practices are constituted and how they configure the social realities of practitioners. Second, we explore what an ontology of practices has to offer for our understanding of organizations. Third, we ex…
The context of empowerment and self-care within the field of diabetes
There is a growing emphasis within the diabetes literature on the importance of empowerment as a way of encouraging people to take control of and responsibility for the successful management of their disease. Patients are actively encouraged to become active participants in their care, and there is an expectation that health-care professionals will facilitate this process. This article uses Bourdieu's concept of field, as a bounded social space i…
Teaching Principals in Small Rural Schools
This paper presents the results of interviews with 12 Manitoba and Alberta rural teaching principals regarding their leadership practices in small schools. The overwhelming theme mentioned by these teaching principals was the joy and sense of purpose they found in the relationships they cultivated with children, staff, and community members because of the ‘advantages’ they had working in small schools. The paper details the small schools context …
Structural barriers to measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) immunisation uptake in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the United Kingdom
Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT) experience a significantly high number of measles cases and have low levels of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) immunisation. There is little evidence on: why immunisation levels are low; beliefs and practices surrounding the MMR vaccine; or the factors that promote or hinder uptake. This paper presents data from five focus groups with 16 GRT mothers in Kent, South East England. Between them, they had 35 childre…
Evaluating the REP-S brief resilience intervention for students in higher education
There is currently an unmet need in higher education for a structured, pre-emptive programme of support to help students enhance their resilience to stress. This article presents a mixed-methods evaluation of a transferable biopsychosocial resilience intervention for students – the Resilience Enhancement Programme for Students (REP-S). In Study 1, a randomised control trial showed that participating in the intervention was associated with signifi…
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health around the world. Previous publications have estimated the effect of AMR on incidence, deaths, hospital length of stay, and health-care costs for specific pathogen-drug combinations in select locations. To our knowledge, this study presents the most comprehensive estimates of AMR burden to date. METHODS: We estimated deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) a…
Implementation of novel and conventional outbreak control measures in managing Covid-19 outbreaks in a large UK prison
Identifying and isolating infected prisoners, cohorting new admissions and shielding vulnerable individuals helped prevent uncontrollable spread of SARS-COV-2. These novel and cost-effective approaches can be implemented in correctional facilities globally
Systematic scoping review of the noma evidence landscape
BACKGROUND: Noma (cancrum oris) is a severe gangrenous disease of the mouth and oro-facial structures. Noma often affects young children living in extreme poverty, malnutrition and poor sanitation. Gaps remain in understanding its aetiology, pathogenesis, prevention and treatment. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We systematically searched databases for all primary research studies (clinical trials, cohort studies, case-control, cross-sectional, other obser…
At the helm
Learning and teaching (L&T) effectiveness is crucial for university success. The literature indicates that Department Chairs often struggle to improve L&T quality within their units due to the under-resourcing and undervaluing of their leadership roles. In this article, through document analysis and semi-structured interviews with Department Chairs, 1 and through an L&T leadership lens, we explore their experiences in faculty support and developm…
Insights into Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) continues to be a serious public health issue, particularly in Ghana. It is crucial to create evidence-based, preventative measures to stop IVP. This study empirically investigated the factors related to married women’s perceptions of male IPV against women. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Goal 5.2) advocate for the elimination of male violence against women by governments, hence this study…
Student-centered leadership in higher education
Student engagement, learning outcomes, and competency development have garnered growing attention in higher education. However, academic leaders often face challenges in fostering holistic student learning while also enhancing student career prospects. Drawing on student-centered leadership (SCL) theory, this study examines how university Department Heads (DHs) facilitate student learning and development, and explores the extent to which the K-12…
Sociology (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Biology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Higher education (4 works)