Stephen Day

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• PhD, MSc, BSc
• Head of Department at University of the West of Scotland

p>This study aims to explore the factors that have influenced the adoption of Malaysian Private Entities Reporting Standards (MPERS) in Malaysia since 2016, to explore the costs and benefits to Malaysian SMEs of adopting the MPERS, and also to explore challenges and expectations exploring the perception of 15 accounting professionals representing S...

The international education literature illustrates both the importance of teacher education to National education systems and the complex, dynamic, and evolving nature of teacher education as a site of practice across the career trajectory of a teacher (Henry in J Teach Educ 67:291–305, 2016). The contribution that teacher educators make to the dev...

In this chapter, we provide an overview of the national Teacher Induction Scheme and the Flexible Route to Registration as a teacher in Scotland. We highlight both the benefits and weaknesses of these two pathways into the teaching profession. The benefits of the Teacher Induction Scheme include a guaranteed post, a reduced teaching load in the ind...

This edited book provides a critical re-reading of the concept of teacher education, in addition to a re-thinking of the sole focus on Initial Teacher Education (ITE), with implications for education policy, theory, and practice. This book presents new investigations that explore the concept of teacher education from ITE to retirement and how this...

Worldwide, over the course of the global COVID-19 pandemic, major disruption to schooling presented governments, school leaders, teachers, parents, and pupils with a host of challenges. These challenges also brought increased attention to how ill-prepared schools were to ‘pivot’ from face-to-face teaching and learning to online forms of remote scho...

The proposition that teaching is a reflective profession is prominent within educational discourse. Theories that underpin reflection are a critical component of initial teacher education (ITE) programmes. This study aims to assess the reliability of the modified Reflective Practice Questionnaire (RPQ) in a population of ITE students; and to compar...

This chapter offers a critical perspective on leadership and management in higher education by exploring the process of performance review and development (PRD) as a form of governmentality (‘lockdown’ in the discourse of COVID-19). The form of the chapter—a series of dialogic exchanges between co-authors—subverts the processes of subjectification...

This study explores the form of curriculum documents and its implications for the enacted curriculum. In this study, the narrative voices that appear in the Scottish Broad General Education phase and the Swedish Compulsory phase of the curriculum are scrutinized in relation to the most likely reader of these documents—the teacher. The study adopts...

Purpose The qualitative characteristics of decision-useful financial information (as set out in the revised March 2018 Conceptual Framework for financial reporting of the International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]) are fundamental for standard setting relied on by companies when making accounting policy changes and choices. However, there has...

Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education brings together an international group of scholars who shine a theoretical light on the politics of academic life and higher education. The book covers three key areas: Institutional governance, with a specific focus on issues such as measurement, surveillance, accountability, regulation, performan...

Sustainability is a complex, ill-defined concept that has been the subject of much debate over the last two decades (Wals and Jickling, 2002). The ill-defined nature of sustainability manifests itself within socio-scientific issues where conflicting reality constructions, values, norms, and interests interact. Initial teacher education as part of H...

We take a closer look at the International Accounting Standards Board's qualitative characteristics of decision-useful information. The qualitative characteristics (QCs) of decision-useful nancial information, as set out in the conceptual framework for nancial reporting of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), are fundamental for sta...

The focus of this article is the inter-relationship between two canonical notions in contemporary education discourse: ‘reflective practice’ and ‘student satisfaction’ in the context of the marketisation of higher education across Europe and the concomitant emphasis on student autonomy and institutional competitiveness. Drawing on the work of Jan M...

This study tests the hypothesis that raising the entry requirement to programmes of Initial Teacher Education in Scotland to Higher Mathematics, would enhance students’ subject content knowledge as required for primary teaching. A sample of 149 students entering initial teacher education was investigated using an assessment that measured competence...

An adequate epistemology of science will not, as some Old Deferentialists expected [pre-Kuhnian thinkers who held that science progresses by the accumulation of well-confirmed truths], be exclusively logical, but will have a social dimension. Unlike the New Cynicism [of post-Kuhnian critics who write about science with factitious despair], however,...

Background: The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) recently updated the Memorandum on Entry Requirements to Programmes of Initial Teacher Education in Scotland, resulting in primary candidates requiring a minimum mathematics qualification at Scottish Credit Qualification Framework (SCQF) level 5 or equivalent (GTCS, 2013). The revised mem...

Abstract: The Scottish science curriculum has been refocused towards enabling young people to develop as scientifically literate citizens. Curriculum guidance issued to science teacher’s lacks clarity as to what ought to be taught in order to develop students’ scientific literacy (Day and Bryce, 2013). Research indicates that discussion of controv...

Background Recent political attention has focussed on initial teacher education of science teachers as well as teachers’ professional development in the area of science and mathematics in the light of the Science and Engineering Education Advisory Group: Second Report (SEEAG, 2012). The pupils’ voice has been lost (or not solicited) in the politica...

This article looks critically at the complexity of the debate among climate scientists; the controversies in the science of global temperature measurement; and at the role played by consensus. It highlights the conflicting perspectives figuring in the mass media concerned with climate change, arguing that science teachers should be familiar with th...

Policy studies in science education do not have a particularly high profile. For science teachers, policy lurks in the background, somewhat disconnected from their normal classroom practice; for many, it is simply taken-for-granted. This paper analyses policy documents which have emerged from Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) that impact on science e...

The purpose of this study was to characterise secondary school science teachers’ conceptual models of discussion, against the background that a number of researchers have found that discussion of socio-scientific issues in science classrooms is rare, somewhat discomforting for teachers and its purpose unclear. Recent research indicates that when sc...

The aim of this research was to determine the benefits of cooperative learning to opening up socio-scientific discussion in secondary science. Seventy-four classes of 20 13–14-year-old pupils in one secondary school were observed engaging in discussion concerning climate change over three rounds of action research involving 12 teachers associated w...

This randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study evaluated the effects of rosuvastatin (40 mg/day for 8 weeks) on atherogenic apolipoprotein B-containing lipoprotein subfractions. Subjects, recruited based on raised plasma triglyceride (TG) or low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), were divided into normotriglyceridaemic (NTG...

Lipoprotein particles (Lps) in normal human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are distinct from those found in plasma and include unique apolipoprotein E (apoE indicates protein; APOE, gene) containing lipoproteins rarely seen in human plasma. Less favourable neurological recovery after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) has been observed in patients who posses...

The association between possession of the APOE epsilon4 allele and unfavourable outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI) suggests that the apolipoprotein E protein (apoE) plays a key role in the response of the human brain to injury. ApoE is known to regulate cholesterol metabolism in the periphery through its action as a ligand for receptor medi...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of crystalloid and erythrocyte-containing cardioplegia on capillary morphology of the isolated erythrocyte-perfused rat heart. Hearts from adult Sprague-Dawley rats were perfused throughout with resuspended sheep erythrocytes and subjected to the following protocols (n = 6, all groups): (1) 1...

Heparin, when administered to patients undergoing operations using cardiopulmonary bypass, induces plasma changes that gradually impair platelet macroaggregation, but heparinization of whole blood in vitro does not have this effect. The plasma changes induced by heparin in vivo continue to progress in whole blood ex vivo. Heparin releases several e...

Small dense LDL is now emerging as an important risk factor for coronary artery disease. The amount of the LDL III has been reported to differ between ethnic groups. To investigate differences in the distribution of LDL subfractions between Korean and Scottish populations, we measured the plasma concentration and percent distribution of three major...

Whole blood from 15 volunteers was anticoagulated with hirudin (200U/l) and the response to a known submaximal concentration of collagen (0.6 microg/ml) was tested by impedance aggregometry. In 8 volunteers platelet counts were also taken before and after the maximum aggregatory response. These tests were repeated when the samples had rested for 24...

Cardiopulmonary bypass is associated with impaired platelet macroaggregation. Heparin contributes to platelet dysfunction before extracorporeal circulation. In vitro heparinization of whole blood does not impair macroaggregation. Heparin releases several endothelial proteins; thus heparin may inhibit macroaggregation indirectly. Patients undergoing...

Platelet counting detects lesser degrees of platelet aggregation than conventional aggregometry. In order to prevent progressive platelet aggregation or disaggregation after sampling it is customary to fix blood samples. However fixation may introduce other artefacts. We first compared stability of platelet counts in EDTA-, citrate- and r-hirudin-a...