Educational psychologists’ report-writing: acts of justice?

One of the major tasks of educational psychologists is the writing of reports. Often, all involvement, assessment and intervention culminate in the production of a report. This paper explores critically the tensions involved in writing reports which are closed down in their conformity to requirements of different bodies, while looking for possibilities of openings in this closure. We acknowledge that report-writing is caught in the economies of exchange and the impossibility of gift-giving, based on the writing of Jacques Derrida. This paper will draw upon a small qualitative study of seven experienced school psychologists, and using a Derridian framework, it makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar [Biesta, G., J. Allan, and R. Edwards. 2011. “The Theory Question in Research Capacity Building in Education: Towards an Agenda for Research and Practice.” British Journal of Educational Studies, 59 (3): 225–239.] on the process of report-writing.     

Preschool children’s early writing: repeated measures reveal growing but variable trajectories

Reading and Writing - Findings from education to neuroscience highlight the role of young children’s print-related skills, including early writing, in predicting and enhancing the development...     

Making Worms Glow

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the molecule that carries genetic information in a cell. The field of DNA nanotechnology aims to use DNA as the basis for making complex nanometerscale structures. While much progress has been made in creating such nano-architectures, the use of these structures within organisms had never been attempted. Our work is focused on using a simple DNA-based pH sensor in worms to yield information about organelle activity in cells. The first of its kind, this work set up a system to use DNA as a probe in living systems.