B Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 42153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Research Network (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7257-4463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Flexible working and professional relationships in schools: An ecological approach
In English schools, the policy environment has recently moved considerably in favour of teachers taking planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time away from the school site as one approach to flexible working in support of teacher retention. Adopting an ecological agency approach to agency, we argue that offsite PPA offers a lens for examining the structural conditions of teacher agency. This may support a more nuanced understanding of teach…
Access to mathematics learning for lower secondary students in England during school closures: Implications for equity and quality
During the initial period of ‘lockdown’ in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools in England were closed to the majority of pupils for 15 weeks. We examine how during this time schools provided emergency remote teaching in mathematics to lower secondary pupils with different levels of prior attainment and advantage. Drawing on a mixed-methods study including a survey (N = 49) and interviews (N = 17) with Heads of Mathematics, we analyse schoo…
Developing environments for research engagement in English schools: Re-professionalising teachers’ work
This paper examines teachers' research engagement and its relationship to teacher professionalism in the English context, drawing on qualitative semi-structured interviews with early career and experienced teachers, and with middle and senior leaders in three comparative case study sites: a school with designated teacher-researcher positions; a school sponsored by a university; and a loose network of schools where research engagement is coordinat…
The achievement gap: The impact of between‐class attainment grouping on pupil attainment and educational equity over time
Despite extensive research on attainment grouping, the impact of attainment grouping on pupil attainment remains poorly understood and contested. This paper presents evidence from a study conducted with 2944 12–13 year olds, from 76 schools in England, who were allocated to between‐class attainment groups (‘setting’) in English and mathematics over the first 2 years of secondary schooling. After controlling for prior attainment, pupils in the top…
Attainment grouping in English secondary schools: A national survey of current practices
Attainment grouping is a prevalent yet controversial practice, used in most English schools and on the rise internationally, despite evidence that it is detrimental to the majority of pupils. In England, no data is routinely recorded regarding these practices, and most research on student outcomes depends on a simplistic dichotomy between pupils grouped and ungrouped by attainment. We present the findings of a survey of attainment grouping practi…
What field? Where? Bringing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History into View
This historiographical article aims to do three things. First, to construct a working overview of historical and aligned scholarship focussed on the history of Britain’s Gypsy and Traveller populations, to give non-specialists an understanding of the key pieces of scholarship and debates within the field. Second, to argue that it is not sufficient for these histories to remain only a concern of ‘Romani’ scholars, and so exist largely separate fro…
The impact of tracking by attainment on pupil self-confidence over time: Demonstrating the accumulative impact of self-fulfilling prophecy
The impact of self-fulfilling prophecy in education, and of attainment grouping on pupil self-perception, remain topics of longstanding debate, with important consequences for social in/justice. Focusing on self-confidence, this article draws on survey responses from 9,059 12-13 year olds who were tracked by subject (‘setting’). They provided survey responses when placed in ‘ability’ sets at the start of their secondary schooling, and again late …
Learners’ attitudes to mixed-attainment grouping: Examining the views of students of high, middle and low attainment
There is a substantial international literature around the impact of different types of grouping by attainment on the academic and personal outcomes of students. This literature, however, is sparse in student voices, especially in relation to mixed-attainment practices. Research has indicated that students of different attainment levels might have different experiences and views of grouping structures. This paper represents a significant contribu…
The misallocation of students to academic sets in maths: A study of secondary schools in England
Drawing upon data gathered from 9301 Year 7 students (12–13 years old) from 46 secondary schools in England, this study represents the first larger‐scale attempt to compare their actual set allocations in maths with the counterfactual position where their allocation to sets is based solely on their prior attainment at the end of primary school [using their Key Stage 2 (KS2) fine‐grained scores in maths]. Through such an analysis, the study found …
Why is it difficult for schools to establish equitable practices in allocating students to attainment ‘sets’
Research has consistently shown ‘ability’ grouping (tracking) to be prey to poor practice, and to perpetuate inequity. A feature of these problems is inequitable and inaccurate practice in allocation to groups or ‘tracks’. Yet little research has examined whether such practices might be improved. Here, we examine survey and interview findings from a large-scale intervention study of grouping practices in 126 English secondary schools. We find tha…
Teacher ‘quality’ and attainment grouping: The role of within-school teacher deployment in social and educational inequality
The symbolic violence of setting: A Bourdieusian analysis of mixed methods data on secondary students’ views about setting
‘Setting’ is a widespread practice in the UK , despite little evidence of its efficacy and substantial evidence of its detrimental impact on those allocated to the lowest sets. Taking a Bourdieusian approach, we propose that setting can be understood as a practice through which the social and cultural reproduction of dominant power relations is enacted within schools. Drawing on survey data from 12,178 Year 7 (age 11/12) students and discussion g…
The spaces and times of community farming
This paper uses a multiple case study approach to researching people's everyday lives and experiences of six community farms and gardens in diverse settings in China and England. We argue that collective understandings of community are bound up in everyday action in particular spaces and times. Successful community farms and gardens are those that are able to provide suitable spaces and times for these actions so that their members can enjoy mult…
Good Decision-Making: Practitioners' Handbook
Journal Article Good Decision-Making: Practitioners' Handbook Get access Good Decision-Making: Practitioners' Handbook, Geraldine Nosowska and Lucy Series, Dartington, Devon, Research in Practice for Adults, 2013, pp. 82, ISBN 978-1-904984-47-4 (pb), £22.00 Brian Taylor Brian Taylor Professor of Social Work,Decision, Assessment, Risk and Evidence Studies Research Group,University of Ulster, Northern Ireland [email protected] Search for other…
Temporality in Nineteenth-Century Russian Music and the Notion of Development
It has long been a truism of music criticism that nineteenth-century Russian symphonic music lacks a true sense of development when compared with a normative German model. This article puts forward an alternative way of approaching Russian instrumental music, from the perspective of a different conception of musical and historical time. By interrogating both musically and culturally this idea of temporality, the article suggests a potential disti…
Everything comes down to money’: Migration and working life trajectories in a (post-)socialist context
In Poland I would never work in a coffee shop'': migration, work and career choices in a (post) socialist context
Polish Migration: Moving Beyond the Iron Curtain
While there are substantial bodies of research dealing with both the contemporary and pre-1950 migration of Poles, there is surprisingly little work on migration of Poles during the socialist era. Depicted as completely shut off from the ‘West’ and immobile, Polish migration during socialism is often reduced simply to political emigration, while in contrast post-1989 moves are understood primarily in economic terms. Here we aim to bridge this gap…
The more you drink, the harder you fall: A systematic review and meta-analysis of how acute alcohol consumption and injury or collision risk increase together
Here, Too, Confusion Reigned
It is of the greatest possible interest to any understanding of art as a social process to know how exhibitions entertain, exasperate, inform, or exhaust their visitors, and how the viewer's identity may be moulded, divided, or left untouched by them. The question seems central to one of the salient phenomena of Western culture since the Enlightenment, the invention and elaboration of the public museum. And yet the apparatus for that study proves…
Hearing Difference, Writing Difference
Mrs Fairly is a Dirty, Lazy Type: Unsatisfactory Households and the Problem of Problem Families in Norwich 1942-1963
Either as the ‘underclass’, or ‘residuum’, poor families with anti-social habits have excited comment and criticism, but rarely historical analysis. Using a rich archive of material on ‘unsatisfactory households’ in Norwich from 1942 to 1963, this article argues that it is essential to understand the material conditions in which such families lived: a period of apparent prosperity throughout Britain before the ‘rediscovery of poverty’ in 1965. Th…
A green future for religion
Sociology
Terrors of Administration
Terrors of Administration Jonathan Petropoulos : Art as Politics in the Third Reich ( University of North Carolina Press : Chapel Hill and London , 1996 ), 123 b&w illns, 439pp. , hardback ISBN 0-8078-2240-X , £34.95. BRANDON TAYLOR BRANDON TAYLOR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 103–105, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/20.1.103 Published: 01 March 1997
Terrors of administration
Terrors of Administration Get access Jonathan Petropoulos : Art as Politics in the Third Reich ( University of North Carolina Press : Chapel Hill and London , 1996 ), 123 b&w illns, 439pp. , hardback ISBN 0-8078-2240-X , £34.95. BRANDON TAYLOR BRANDON TAYLOR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 103–105, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/20.1.103 Published: 01 Mar…
A green future for religion
The misallocation of students to academic sets in maths: A study of secondary schools in England
Drawing upon data gathered from 9301 Year 7 students (12–13 years old) from 46 secondary schools in England, this study represents the first larger‐scale attempt to compare their actual set allocations in maths with the counterfactual position where their allocation to sets is based solely on their prior attainment at the end of primary school [using their Key Stage 2 (KS2) fine‐grained scores in maths]. Through such an analysis, the study found …
The symbolic violence of setting: A Bourdieusian analysis of mixed methods data on secondary students’ views about setting
‘Setting’ is a widespread practice in the UK , despite little evidence of its efficacy and substantial evidence of its detrimental impact on those allocated to the lowest sets. Taking a Bourdieusian approach, we propose that setting can be understood as a practice through which the social and cultural reproduction of dominant power relations is enacted within schools. Drawing on survey data from 12,178 Year 7 (age 11/12) students and discussion g…
The impact of tracking by attainment on pupil self-confidence over time: Demonstrating the accumulative impact of self-fulfilling prophecy
The impact of self-fulfilling prophecy in education, and of attainment grouping on pupil self-perception, remain topics of longstanding debate, with important consequences for social in/justice. Focusing on self-confidence, this article draws on survey responses from 9,059 12-13 year olds who were tracked by subject (‘setting’). They provided survey responses when placed in ‘ability’ sets at the start of their secondary schooling, and again late …
Learners’ attitudes to mixed-attainment grouping: Examining the views of students of high, middle and low attainment
There is a substantial international literature around the impact of different types of grouping by attainment on the academic and personal outcomes of students. This literature, however, is sparse in student voices, especially in relation to mixed-attainment practices. Research has indicated that students of different attainment levels might have different experiences and views of grouping structures. This paper represents a significant contribu…
Attainment grouping in English secondary schools: A national survey of current practices
Attainment grouping is a prevalent yet controversial practice, used in most English schools and on the rise internationally, despite evidence that it is detrimental to the majority of pupils. In England, no data is routinely recorded regarding these practices, and most research on student outcomes depends on a simplistic dichotomy between pupils grouped and ungrouped by attainment. We present the findings of a survey of attainment grouping practi…
Why is it difficult for schools to establish equitable practices in allocating students to attainment ‘sets’
Research has consistently shown ‘ability’ grouping (tracking) to be prey to poor practice, and to perpetuate inequity. A feature of these problems is inequitable and inaccurate practice in allocation to groups or ‘tracks’. Yet little research has examined whether such practices might be improved. Here, we examine survey and interview findings from a large-scale intervention study of grouping practices in 126 English secondary schools. We find tha…
The achievement gap: The impact of between‐class attainment grouping on pupil attainment and educational equity over time
Despite extensive research on attainment grouping, the impact of attainment grouping on pupil attainment remains poorly understood and contested. This paper presents evidence from a study conducted with 2944 12–13 year olds, from 76 schools in England, who were allocated to between‐class attainment groups (‘setting’) in English and mathematics over the first 2 years of secondary schooling. After controlling for prior attainment, pupils in the top…
Teacher ‘quality’ and attainment grouping: The role of within-school teacher deployment in social and educational inequality
Polish Migration: Moving Beyond the Iron Curtain
While there are substantial bodies of research dealing with both the contemporary and pre-1950 migration of Poles, there is surprisingly little work on migration of Poles during the socialist era. Depicted as completely shut off from the ‘West’ and immobile, Polish migration during socialism is often reduced simply to political emigration, while in contrast post-1989 moves are understood primarily in economic terms. Here we aim to bridge this gap…
Mrs Fairly is a Dirty, Lazy Type: Unsatisfactory Households and the Problem of Problem Families in Norwich 1942-1963
Either as the ‘underclass’, or ‘residuum’, poor families with anti-social habits have excited comment and criticism, but rarely historical analysis. Using a rich archive of material on ‘unsatisfactory households’ in Norwich from 1942 to 1963, this article argues that it is essential to understand the material conditions in which such families lived: a period of apparent prosperity throughout Britain before the ‘rediscovery of poverty’ in 1965. Th…
Developing environments for research engagement in English schools: Re-professionalising teachers’ work
This paper examines teachers' research engagement and its relationship to teacher professionalism in the English context, drawing on qualitative semi-structured interviews with early career and experienced teachers, and with middle and senior leaders in three comparative case study sites: a school with designated teacher-researcher positions; a school sponsored by a university; and a loose network of schools where research engagement is coordinat…
What field? Where? Bringing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History into View
This historiographical article aims to do three things. First, to construct a working overview of historical and aligned scholarship focussed on the history of Britain’s Gypsy and Traveller populations, to give non-specialists an understanding of the key pieces of scholarship and debates within the field. Second, to argue that it is not sufficient for these histories to remain only a concern of ‘Romani’ scholars, and so exist largely separate fro…
The spaces and times of community farming
This paper uses a multiple case study approach to researching people's everyday lives and experiences of six community farms and gardens in diverse settings in China and England. We argue that collective understandings of community are bound up in everyday action in particular spaces and times. Successful community farms and gardens are those that are able to provide suitable spaces and times for these actions so that their members can enjoy mult…
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
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Asthma
Montage and Its Comedies
Journal Article Montage and Its Comedies Get access John Heartfield : AIZ/VI 1930-38 , David Evans , Kent Fine Art , New York , 1992 . 482 b & w ills. 9 colour, 523 pp. hardback ISBN 1-878607-28-6 £59. John Heartfield , Peter Pachnicke and Klaus Honnef (eds), MIT Press , Cambridge ,and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston , 1992 . Harry N. Abrahams , New York , 1992 . 243 b & w ills. 52 colour, 342 pp. hardback ISBN 0-8109-2534-6 £65. Montag…
Pupil Performance in Graphical Tasks and its Relationship to the Ability to Handle Variables
Terrors of Administration
Terrors of Administration Jonathan Petropoulos : Art as Politics in the Third Reich ( University of North Carolina Press : Chapel Hill and London , 1996 ), 123 b&w illns, 439pp. , hardback ISBN 0-8078-2240-X , £34.95. BRANDON TAYLOR BRANDON TAYLOR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 103–105, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/20.1.103 Published: 01 March 1997
Terrors of administration
Terrors of Administration Get access Jonathan Petropoulos : Art as Politics in the Third Reich ( University of North Carolina Press : Chapel Hill and London , 1996 ), 123 b&w illns, 439pp. , hardback ISBN 0-8078-2240-X , £34.95. BRANDON TAYLOR BRANDON TAYLOR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 103–105, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/20.1.103 Published: 01 Mar…
Sociology
A green future for religion
Mrs Fairly is a Dirty, Lazy Type: Unsatisfactory Households and the Problem of Problem Families in Norwich 1942-1963
Either as the ‘underclass’, or ‘residuum’, poor families with anti-social habits have excited comment and criticism, but rarely historical analysis. Using a rich archive of material on ‘unsatisfactory households’ in Norwich from 1942 to 1963, this article argues that it is essential to understand the material conditions in which such families lived: a period of apparent prosperity throughout Britain before the ‘rediscovery of poverty’ in 1965. Th…
The more you drink, the harder you fall: A systematic review and meta-analysis of how acute alcohol consumption and injury or collision risk increase together
Here, Too, Confusion Reigned
It is of the greatest possible interest to any understanding of art as a social process to know how exhibitions entertain, exasperate, inform, or exhaust their visitors, and how the viewer's identity may be moulded, divided, or left untouched by them. The question seems central to one of the salient phenomena of Western culture since the Enlightenment, the invention and elaboration of the public museum. And yet the apparatus for that study proves…
Hearing Difference, Writing Difference
Everything comes down to money’: Migration and working life trajectories in a (post-)socialist context
In Poland I would never work in a coffee shop'': migration, work and career choices in a (post) socialist context
Polish Migration: Moving Beyond the Iron Curtain
While there are substantial bodies of research dealing with both the contemporary and pre-1950 migration of Poles, there is surprisingly little work on migration of Poles during the socialist era. Depicted as completely shut off from the ‘West’ and immobile, Polish migration during socialism is often reduced simply to political emigration, while in contrast post-1989 moves are understood primarily in economic terms. Here we aim to bridge this gap…
Temporality in Nineteenth-Century Russian Music and the Notion of Development
It has long been a truism of music criticism that nineteenth-century Russian symphonic music lacks a true sense of development when compared with a normative German model. This article puts forward an alternative way of approaching Russian instrumental music, from the perspective of a different conception of musical and historical time. By interrogating both musically and culturally this idea of temporality, the article suggests a potential disti…
Good Decision-Making: Practitioners' Handbook
Journal Article Good Decision-Making: Practitioners' Handbook Get access Good Decision-Making: Practitioners' Handbook, Geraldine Nosowska and Lucy Series, Dartington, Devon, Research in Practice for Adults, 2013, pp. 82, ISBN 978-1-904984-47-4 (pb), £22.00 Brian Taylor Brian Taylor Professor of Social Work,Decision, Assessment, Risk and Evidence Studies Research Group,University of Ulster, Northern Ireland [email protected] Search for other…
The spaces and times of community farming
This paper uses a multiple case study approach to researching people's everyday lives and experiences of six community farms and gardens in diverse settings in China and England. We argue that collective understandings of community are bound up in everyday action in particular spaces and times. Successful community farms and gardens are those that are able to provide suitable spaces and times for these actions so that their members can enjoy mult…
Teacher ‘quality’ and attainment grouping: The role of within-school teacher deployment in social and educational inequality
The symbolic violence of setting: A Bourdieusian analysis of mixed methods data on secondary students’ views about setting
‘Setting’ is a widespread practice in the UK , despite little evidence of its efficacy and substantial evidence of its detrimental impact on those allocated to the lowest sets. Taking a Bourdieusian approach, we propose that setting can be understood as a practice through which the social and cultural reproduction of dominant power relations is enacted within schools. Drawing on survey data from 12,178 Year 7 (age 11/12) students and discussion g…
Learners’ attitudes to mixed-attainment grouping: Examining the views of students of high, middle and low attainment
There is a substantial international literature around the impact of different types of grouping by attainment on the academic and personal outcomes of students. This literature, however, is sparse in student voices, especially in relation to mixed-attainment practices. Research has indicated that students of different attainment levels might have different experiences and views of grouping structures. This paper represents a significant contribu…
The misallocation of students to academic sets in maths: A study of secondary schools in England
Drawing upon data gathered from 9301 Year 7 students (12–13 years old) from 46 secondary schools in England, this study represents the first larger‐scale attempt to compare their actual set allocations in maths with the counterfactual position where their allocation to sets is based solely on their prior attainment at the end of primary school [using their Key Stage 2 (KS2) fine‐grained scores in maths]. Through such an analysis, the study found …
Why is it difficult for schools to establish equitable practices in allocating students to attainment ‘sets’
Research has consistently shown ‘ability’ grouping (tracking) to be prey to poor practice, and to perpetuate inequity. A feature of these problems is inequitable and inaccurate practice in allocation to groups or ‘tracks’. Yet little research has examined whether such practices might be improved. Here, we examine survey and interview findings from a large-scale intervention study of grouping practices in 126 English secondary schools. We find tha…
The impact of tracking by attainment on pupil self-confidence over time: Demonstrating the accumulative impact of self-fulfilling prophecy
The impact of self-fulfilling prophecy in education, and of attainment grouping on pupil self-perception, remain topics of longstanding debate, with important consequences for social in/justice. Focusing on self-confidence, this article draws on survey responses from 9,059 12-13 year olds who were tracked by subject (‘setting’). They provided survey responses when placed in ‘ability’ sets at the start of their secondary schooling, and again late …
What field? Where? Bringing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History into View
This historiographical article aims to do three things. First, to construct a working overview of historical and aligned scholarship focussed on the history of Britain’s Gypsy and Traveller populations, to give non-specialists an understanding of the key pieces of scholarship and debates within the field. Second, to argue that it is not sufficient for these histories to remain only a concern of ‘Romani’ scholars, and so exist largely separate fro…
Attainment grouping in English secondary schools: A national survey of current practices
Attainment grouping is a prevalent yet controversial practice, used in most English schools and on the rise internationally, despite evidence that it is detrimental to the majority of pupils. In England, no data is routinely recorded regarding these practices, and most research on student outcomes depends on a simplistic dichotomy between pupils grouped and ungrouped by attainment. We present the findings of a survey of attainment grouping practi…
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