Valsa Koshy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6154653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valsa Koshy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valsa |
| FAMILY NAME | Koshy |
| SIGNATURE | KOSHY V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Enablers and barriers for male students transferring life skills from the sports hall into the classroom
There is a widespread belief that sport can be used as a vehicle to promote positive youth development. In particular, using sport to teach young people various life skills has become popular over the previous decade. However, little research has examined the transfer of life skills into other academic and life domains. The transfer-ability programme (TAP) was a multi-faceted intervention, which sought to deliberately teach 20 underachieving, mal…
Are we being de‐gifted, Miss?’ Primary school gifted and talented co‐ordinators’ responses to the Gifted and Talented Education Policy in England
Over a decade ago the UK government launched its gifted and talented education policy in England, yet there has been very little published research which considers how schools and teachers are interpreting and implementing the policy. By seeking the views of the gifted and talented co‐ordinators (For ease of reference, the term gifted and talented (G&T) co‐ordinator is used throughout the paper as a generic shorthand for the research participants…
The landscape of gifted and talented education in England and Wales
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Research Papers in Education, 27(2), 167-186, 2012, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02671522.2010.509514
Gifts, talents and meritocracy
This paper investigates aspects of policy implementation that relate to ‘Excellence in Cities’, a UK government initiative. Local Education Authority (LEA) personnel and school teachers, responsible for implementing the Gifted and Talented (G&T) strand of that initiative, were interviewed. These co‐ordinators were involved in the selection of school students to participate in an interventionist programme, the Urban Scholars programme at Brunel Un…
Action Research for Improving Practice
In the past few years, action research has become increasingly popular as a mode of research among practitioners.The main role of action research is to facilitate practitioners to study aspects of practice – whether it is in the context of introducing an innovative idea or in assessing and reflecting on the effectiveness of existing practice, with the view of improving practice.This process is often carried out within the researcher’s own setting…
Letting Caged Birds Fly
The evolution of our perspective on creativity as a phenomenon and process intertwined with problem-solving and critical thinking has evolved over the years as we have widened our experience of designing programs for gifted and talented students. This paper outlines how the authorsx2019;own thinking and practice developed as both gifted education and creativity became the focus of recent national initiatives within the United Kingdom. The UNESCO …
Gifts, talents and meritocracy
This paper investigates aspects of policy implementation that relate to ‘Excellence in Cities’, a UK government initiative. Local Education Authority (LEA) personnel and school teachers, responsible for implementing the Gifted and Talented (G&T) strand of that initiative, were interviewed. These co‐ordinators were involved in the selection of school students to participate in an interventionist programme, the Urban Scholars programme at Brunel Un…
The landscape of gifted and talented education in England and Wales
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Research Papers in Education, 27(2), 167-186, 2012, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02671522.2010.509514
Action Research for Improving Practice
In the past few years, action research has become increasingly popular as a mode of research among practitioners.The main role of action research is to facilitate practitioners to study aspects of practice – whether it is in the context of introducing an innovative idea or in assessing and reflecting on the effectiveness of existing practice, with the view of improving practice.This process is often carried out within the researcher’s own setting…
Letting Caged Birds Fly
The evolution of our perspective on creativity as a phenomenon and process intertwined with problem-solving and critical thinking has evolved over the years as we have widened our experience of designing programs for gifted and talented students. This paper outlines how the authorsx2019;own thinking and practice developed as both gifted education and creativity became the focus of recent national initiatives within the United Kingdom. The UNESCO …
Gifts, talents and meritocracy
This paper investigates aspects of policy implementation that relate to ‘Excellence in Cities’, a UK government initiative. Local Education Authority (LEA) personnel and school teachers, responsible for implementing the Gifted and Talented (G&T) strand of that initiative, were interviewed. These co‐ordinators were involved in the selection of school students to participate in an interventionist programme, the Urban Scholars programme at Brunel Un…
The landscape of gifted and talented education in England and Wales
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Research Papers in Education, 27(2), 167-186, 2012, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02671522.2010.509514
Are we being de‐gifted, Miss?’ Primary school gifted and talented co‐ordinators’ responses to the Gifted and Talented Education Policy in England
Over a decade ago the UK government launched its gifted and talented education policy in England, yet there has been very little published research which considers how schools and teachers are interpreting and implementing the policy. By seeking the views of the gifted and talented co‐ordinators (For ease of reference, the term gifted and talented (G&T) co‐ordinator is used throughout the paper as a generic shorthand for the research participants…
Enablers and barriers for male students transferring life skills from the sports hall into the classroom
There is a widespread belief that sport can be used as a vehicle to promote positive youth development. In particular, using sport to teach young people various life skills has become popular over the previous decade. However, little research has examined the transfer of life skills into other academic and life domains. The transfer-ability programme (TAP) was a multi-faceted intervention, which sought to deliberately teach 20 underachieving, mal…
Pedagogy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (3 works) · Medical education (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Curriculum (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works)