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9593
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4658
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789

Overview

Harry Daniels is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and specializes in social sciences, with a focus on education. Their scholarly contributions primarily explore issues related to education discipline, inequality, and school exclusion, as well as youth education and societal dynamics.

Their research spans a range of subfields including education, sociology and political science, safety research, clinical psychology, and human factors and ergonomics. The main topics they address comprise:

  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Education Discipline and Inequality
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Daniels include:

  • "Long-term labour market and economic consequences of school exclusions in England: Evidence from two counterfactual approaches" (2022), published in British Journal of Educational Psychology
  • "Feeling Part of the School and Feeling Safe: Further Development of a Tool for Investigating School Belonging" (2021), published in Educational Studies
  • "Conflicts in professional concern and the exclusion of pupils with SEMH in England" (2021), published in Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
  • "What Counts as Evidence in the Understanding of School Exclusion in England?" (2022), published in Frontiers in Education
  • "Bernstein and Vygotsky: how the outside comes in and the inside goes out" (2020), published in British Journal of Sociology of Education

Daniels frequently publishes in several academic venues, notably:

  • Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, with 20 publications
  • British Journal of Educational Psychology, with 2 publications
  • International Journal of Inclusive Education, with 2 publications
  • Educational Studies, with 1 publication
  • Frontiers in Education, with 1 publication

Their work often involves collaboration with other researchers such as Ian Thompson, Jill Porter, Alice Tawell, Tiarnach McDermott, and Jenni Ingram.

In addition to articles, Harry Daniels has contributed to book publications through publishers including Cappelen Damm Akademisk and Edward Elgar Publishing. Titles include "Theory and Methodology in International Comparative Classroom Studies" (2021) and "A Research Agenda for Inclusive Education" (2025).

Best Publications

  • Vygotsky and Pedagogy

    Harry Daniels

  • The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky

    Harry Daniels;Michael Cole;James V. Wertsch

  • An introduction to Vygotsky

    Harry Daniels

  • Learning and expanding with activity theory

    Annalisa Sannino;Harry Daniels;Kris D. Gutierrez

  • Vygotsky and Research

    Harry Daniels

  • Towards a sociology of pedagogy: The contribution of Basil Bernstein to research

    A Morais;I Neves;B Davies;H Daniels

  • Classroom-based cognitive behaviour therapy (FRIENDS): a cluster randomised controlled trial to Prevent Anxiety in Children through Education in Schools (PACES)

    Paul Stallard;Elena Skryabina;Gordon Taylor;Rhiannon Phillips

  • Activity Theory in Practice: Promoting learning across boundaries and agencies

    Harry Daniels;Anne Edwards;Yrjö Engeström;Tony Gallagher

  • Improving Inter-professional Collaborations: Multi-Agency Working for Children's Wellbeing

    Anne Edwards;Harry Daniels;Tony Gallagher;Jane Leadbetter

  • A study of information seeking by cancer patients and their carers

    Nick James;Harry Daniels;R. Rahman;C. McConkey

  • Activity Theory Between Historical Engagement and Future-Making Practice

    Annalisa Sannino;Harry Daniels;Kris D. Gutiérrez

  • Learning in and for multi‐agency working

    Harry Daniels;Jane Leadbetter;Paul Warmington;Anne Edwards

  • Activity theory, discourse and Bernstein

    Harry Daniels

  • Educating for the Knowledge Economy? Critical Perspectives.

    Hugh Lauder;Michael Young;Harry Daniels;Maria Balarin

  • Interagency Collaboration: A Review of the Literature

    P Warrington;Harry Daniels;A Edwards;S Brown

  • Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky

    Harry Daniels;M Cole;J Wertsch

  • Charting the agenda : educational activity after Vygotsky

    Harry Daniels

  • The influence of school culture on smoking among pupils

    Paul Aveyard;Wolfgang A Markham;Emma Lancashire;Alison Bullock

  • Knowledge, Power and Educational Reform: Applying the sociology of Basil Bernstein

    Rob Moore;Madeleine Arnot;John Beck;Harry Daniels

  • Study Of Young People Permanently Excluded From School

    Harry Daniels;Bernard Cole;Edward Sellman;Jane Sutton

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Edwards
Anne Edwards University of Oxford
Brahm Norwich
Brahm Norwich University of Exeter
Paul Stallard
Paul Stallard University of Bath
Kris D. Gutiérrez
Kris D. Gutiérrez University of California, Berkeley
Michael Cole
Michael Cole University of East London
James V. Wertsch
James V. Wertsch Washington University in St. Louis
Jennifer Beecham
Jennifer Beecham University of Kent
Yrjö Engeström
Yrjö Engeström University of Helsinki
Robert C. Anderson
Robert C. Anderson California Institute of Technology

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