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  1. Active co-constructive written feedback

    Article • October 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Mike Watts

  2. Aboard the helicopter: from adult science to early years (and back)

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  3. Parents and their children’s choice of school science subjects and career intentions: a study from Mauritius

    Article • Research in Science & Technological Education, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts, Michael Reiss, Jayantee Naugah

  4. Social mobility in the slipstream: first-generation students’ narratives of university participation and family

    Article • Educational Review, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  5. Teaching and learning physics using technology: Making a case for the affective domain

    Article • Education Inquiry, June 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts, Professor Yashwantrao Ramma, Professor Yashwant Ramma

  6. Early years science education: a contemporary look

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  7. But is it science?

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, December 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  8. ‘Question Moments’: A Rolling Programme of Question Opportunities in Classroom Science

    Article • Research in Science Education, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mike Watts

  9. ARE INSTITUTES AND LEARNERS READY FOR E-LEARNING IN THE MALDIVES?

    Article • March 2016, IATED Academy, S.L.

    Professor Mike Watts

  10. Geographies of Trolls, Grief Tourists, and Playing with Digital Transgression

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mike Watts

  11. Reflective Questions, Self-Questioning and Managing Professionally Situated Practice

    Article • Research in Education, November 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mike Watts

  12. Making the tacit explicit: children's strategies for classroom writing

    Article • British Educational Research Journal, March 2015, Wiley

    Professor Mike Watts

  13. Science Lives: School choices and ‘natural tendencies’

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  14. Public Understanding of Plant Biology: Voices from the Bottom of the Garden

    Article • International Journal of Science Education Part B, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  15. Geographies of Trolls, Grief Tourists, and Playing with Digital Transgression

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mike Watts

  16. The Voices of Teaching Assistants (Are We Value for Money?)

    Article • Research in Education, November 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mike Watts

  17. Reflectivity, reflexivity and situated reflective practice

    Article • Professional Development in Education, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  18. Youth at play: some observations from a science museum

    Article • International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  19. Adult play-learning: Observing informal family education at a science museum

    Article • Studies in the Education of Adults, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  20. Editorial feature

    Article • International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  21. Family Play-Learning: Some Learning Outcomes from Make-and-play Activities with Toys at a Science

    Article • Literacy Information and Computer Education Journal, September 2012, Infonomics Society

    Professor Mike Watts

  22. Contexts for questioning: two zones of teaching and learning in undergraduate science

    Article • Higher Education, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mike Watts

  23. Managing affect in learners' questions in undergraduate science

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  24. Health and Sex Education in India

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mike Watts

  25. Pupils or prisoners? Institutional geographies and internal exclusion in UK secondary schools

    Article • Area, February 2010, Wiley

    Professor Mike Watts

  26. Personal Construct Theory and constructivist drug education

    Article • Drug and Alcohol Review, November 2007, Wiley

    Professor Mike Watts

  27. Digital story telling in a science classroom: reflective self‐learning (RSL) in action

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, August 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  28. Questioning Styles and Students' Learning: Four case studies

    Article • Educational Psychology, August 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  29. Cooperating in constructing knowledge: case studies from chemistry and citizenship

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, June 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  30. The orchestration of learning and teaching methods in science education

    Article • Canadian Journal of Science Mathematics and Technology Education, October 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  31. Science education and affect

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, September 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  32. Questions of chemistry

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, August 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  33. Spirituality and Drugs Education: A study in parent/child communication

    Article • International Journal of Children s Spirituality, June 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  34. Evaluating a Classroom Multimedia Programme in the Teaching of Literacy

    Article • Educational Research and Evaluation, March 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  35. Science and poetry: passion v. prescription in school science?

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, February 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  36. Science and poetry: passion v. prescription in school science?

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, February 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  37. The PLUS factors of family science

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  38. The PLUS factors of family science

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  39. The affective dimensions of learning science

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, December 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  40. Facts and feelings: exploring the affective domain in the learning of physics

    Article • Physics Education, February 2000, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Mike Watts

  41. LEARNERS’ EXPLANATIONS FOR CHEMICAL PHENOMENA

    Article • Chemistry Education Research and Practice, January 2000, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Mike Watts

  42. Family Science: Generating Early Learning in Science

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  43. Spirituality and Self: A Case from Drug Education∗

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  44. Misunderstanding science? The public reconstruction of science and technology

    Article • Science Education, November 1998, Wiley

    Professor Mike Watts

  45. Towards critical constructivist teaching

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, February 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  46. Constructivism in the Early Years: An Editorial Overview

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, January 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  47. Sources from a Somerset village: A model for informal learning about radiation and radioactivity

    Article • Science Education, November 1997, Wiley

    Professor Mike Watts

  48. Sources from a Somerset village: A model for informal learning about radiation and radioactivity

    Article • Science Education, November 1997, Wiley

    Professor Mike Watts

  49. Prompting teachers’ constructive reflection: pupils’ questions as critical incidents

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, November 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  50. A feeling for learning: modelling affective learning in school science

    Article • The Curriculum Journal, September 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  51. A case for critical constructivism and critical thinking in science education

    Article • Research in Science Education, June 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mike Watts

  52. Affecting Primary Science: A Case from the Early Years

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  53. Emergent Theories: Towards Signs of Early Science

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  54. An explanatory gestalt of essence: students’ conceptions of the ‘natural’ in physical phenomena

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, December 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  55. A Clash of Cultures: Physics and the Primary Scientist

    Article • Early Child Development and Care, January 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  56. Changing Teachers' Thinking Through Critical Constructivism and Critical Action Research

    Article • Teachers and Teaching, October 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  57. Humanizing and feminizing school science: reviving anthropomorphic and animistic thinking in constructivist science education

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  58. BOOK REVIEW

    Article • International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, January 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  59. Thinking about thinking, learning about learning: constructivism in physics education

    Article • Physics Education, November 1989, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Mike Watts

  60. Applying Educational Research: A Practical Guide for Teachers

    Article • European Journal of Education, January 1989, JSTOR

    Professor Mike Watts

  61. Sixth‐formers’ views of their science education, 11‐16

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, April 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  62. From concept maps to curriculum signposts

    Article • Physics Education, March 1988, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Mike Watts

  63. Constructivism in the Classroom: enabling conceptual change by words and deeds

    Article • British Educational Research Journal, June 1987, Wiley

    Professor Mike Watts

  64. More than the Sum of the Parts: research methods in group interviewing

    Article • British Educational Research Journal, March 1987, Wiley

    Professor Mike Watts

  65. Methodological congruity in principle and in practice: A dilemma in science education

    Article • Journal of Curriculum Studies, April 1986, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  66. The Personal Parameters of Cognition: two personal aims in science education

    Article • Oxford Review of Education, January 1984, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mike Watts

  67. Orchestrating the Confluence: A Discussion of Science, Passion, and Poetry

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mike Watts