All Outputs (33)

Teacher training in England: Exploring trainee teachers' perspectives on their professional identity formation (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter outlines research conducted by Karan Vickers-Hulse (KVH) as part of an educational professional doctorate; Marcus Witt (MW) was one of her supervisory team. Participants were from two initial teacher education (ITE) routes (School Direct... Read More about Teacher training in England: Exploring trainee teachers' perspectives on their professional identity formation.

Hierarchies of professionalism in interprofessional partnerships for inclusion: Mapping the role and professional identities of early years educators (2024)
Book Chapter

Despite the rhetoric emphasising partnership working there has been a dearth of research related to the educational practices that reify interprofessional partnerships for young children with special educational needs. This doctoral study examined th... Read More about Hierarchies of professionalism in interprofessional partnerships for inclusion: Mapping the role and professional identities of early years educators.

Home language literacy learning as an extracurricular activity by pupils and parents: Do the findings warrant a case for introducing home language policy for primary education in England? (2024)
Book Chapter

Despite the fact that almost two million learners in state-funded schools in England learn English as an additional language DfE (2020), there is no official policy for developing home languages (HL), even though the use of HL in classrooms for acade... Read More about Home language literacy learning as an extracurricular activity by pupils and parents: Do the findings warrant a case for introducing home language policy for primary education in England?.

The impact of symbolic violence on the perceived choices of trainee primary school teachers: A poetic perspective (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the theme of symbolic violence (Bourdieu, 2001; Thapar-Björkert et al., 2016), a central theme in my doctoral thesis.
My thesis looked at the experiences of a group of female undergraduate students in their first year of Initia... Read More about The impact of symbolic violence on the perceived choices of trainee primary school teachers: A poetic perspective.

Critical Perspectives on Educational Policies and Professional Identities: Lessons from Doctoral Studies (2024)
Book

The collection features the cutting-edge work of 14 doctoral graduates from the University of the West of England (UWE), exploring the issue of education policy and its impact on professional identities, including changing professional and policy con... Read More about Critical Perspectives on Educational Policies and Professional Identities: Lessons from Doctoral Studies.

Achieving creative collaboration between language teachers and artists: An evaluation of a workshop-based approach (2024)
Journal Article

Inspired by academic thinking and practice-based work on creativity and education (e.g. John Steiner, 2000) and creative approaches in language education (e.g. Frimberger et al 2017, Cummins & Early, 2011), this article is based on outcomes of the pr... Read More about Achieving creative collaboration between language teachers and artists: An evaluation of a workshop-based approach.

From translanguaging to transknowledging: Exploring new epistemological and linguistic approaches in higher education research (2023)
Book Chapter

In this quotation, Heugh critiques literature produced in the Global North which makes claims to promoting social justice while making invisible the sources of knowledge and languages to communicate about those ideas by people in the Global South. Th... Read More about From translanguaging to transknowledging: Exploring new epistemological and linguistic approaches in higher education research.

Recruiting doctoral students: Getting it right for all involved (2023)
Journal Article

This entry explores the different ways in which students are accepted onto doctoral degrees such as PhDs and professional doctorates. The processes involved are referred to in this entry, and in much of the policy-related and research-informed litera... Read More about Recruiting doctoral students: Getting it right for all involved.

Critical perspectives on educational policies and professional identities: Lessons from doctoral studies (symposium) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This symposium, which showcases an edited collection of work by recent UK doctoral graduates (Authors, forthcoming), begins with a short introduction setting the scene for the wider project. It demonstrates the unique contribution of ‘insider’, pract... Read More about Critical perspectives on educational policies and professional identities: Lessons from doctoral studies (symposium).

Creating Welcoming Learning Environments: Using Creative Arts Methods in Language Classrooms (2022)
Book

Book Review – 2021 (2021)
Journal Article

The following publication contains book reviews of these titles:

Bearman, M., Dawson, P., Ajjawi, R., Tai, J., Boud, D. (eds.) (2020) Re-imagining university assessment in a digital world. The Enabling Power of Assessment 7. Springer, 296 pages, h... Read More about Book Review – 2021.

Bringing the critical into doctoral supervision: What can we learn from debates about epistemic justice and the languaging of research? (2021)
Journal Article

In this article, we discuss how, as supervisors in largely Anglophone university contexts in England, we are trying to develop supervisory practices informed by the discussions of epistemic (in)justice and the languaging of research. Having rehearsed... Read More about Bringing the critical into doctoral supervision: What can we learn from debates about epistemic justice and the languaging of research?.

"I don’t want to talk any more": Reflecting on research into young children's perspectives on their multilingual lives (2021)
Book Chapter

Theorising arts-based collaborative research processes (2020)
Book Chapter

Researching multilingually in applied linguistics (2019)
Book Chapter

Researching multilingually is an umbrella term used (in e.g. Holmes et al. 2013) which seeks to identify and highlight the decision-making researchers engage in regarding language in the many stages of their research processes. In applied linguistics... Read More about Researching multilingually in applied linguistics.

Valuing a translingual mindset in researcher education in Anglophone higher education: Supervision perspectives (2019)
Journal Article

This article explores some implications of plurilingualism and translingual practice for teaching and learning in higher education. Research in this area tends to focus on the undergraduate experience whereas our focus is on doctoral supervision, a l... Read More about Valuing a translingual mindset in researcher education in Anglophone higher education: Supervision perspectives.

Creative collaboration: A study of teachers transforming arts-based methods into activities to support children developing English as an Additional Language in schools in England (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

What shapes everyday translanguaging? Insights from a global mental health project in Northern Uganda (2018)
Book Chapter

This chapter contributes to ongoing explorations of translanguaging in everyday contexts, acknowledges the origins of the concept in multilingual educational contexts, and notes how researchers have also applied the concept to multilingual interactio... Read More about What shapes everyday translanguaging? Insights from a global mental health project in Northern Uganda.

From linguistic preparation to developing a translingual orientation – possible implications of plurilingualism for researcher education (2018)
Book Chapter

A chapter discussing what researchers need to know about linguistic diversity before engaging in their research.

Education and migration: Languages foregrounded (2017)
Journal Article

Introduction to a special issue of eight articles on the theme of Education and migration: Languages foregrounded