Outputs (71)

Participative rights in Welsh primary schools: Unpicking the policy rhetoric (2024)
Journal Article

This paper presents the findings from the initial stage of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project which examines the pedagogic practices that embed young children's participative rights in lower primary classrooms in Wales. An... Read More about Participative rights in Welsh primary schools: Unpicking the policy rhetoric.

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.

Context, consciousness and caution: Teachers of history in England and the exploration of sensitive and controversial issues in practice (2024)
Book Chapter

Abstract
This chapter is about primary and secondary school teachers of history in England, and how they negotiate policy in order to teach sensitive and controversial issues which feature as part of the history curriculum. We present research condu... Read More about Context, consciousness and caution: Teachers of history in England and the exploration of sensitive and controversial issues in practice.

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.

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.

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?.

Counter terrorism measures in the classroom: The importance of professionalism, agency and autonomy when enacting the Prevent duty (2024)
Book Chapter

The Prevent policy was singular and “simple”: to prevent individuals from getting drawn into terrorism, to identify and stop this process before it begins. In the context of the global war on terror and the shadow of terrorist attacks in the USA and... Read More about Counter terrorism measures in the classroom: The importance of professionalism, agency and autonomy when enacting the Prevent duty.

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.

Teaching and learning as complex phenomena: Implications for policy and teacher professional identity (2024)
Book Chapter

Widespread support exists for the view that teaching is a complex task (Schulman, 2004), that learning is a complex, dynamic phenomenon and that classrooms are ‘complex systems’ (Hardman, 2010). Systems behaving in complex, emergent ways cannot be su... Read More about Teaching and learning as complex phenomena: Implications for policy and teacher professional identity.

Demystifying executive function (2024)
Journal Article

Executive function (EF) is an umbrella term for a set of complex and nuanced cognitive processes believed to be uniquely human. EF allows for planning, adaptation and self-regulation to meet personal or imposed goals. It develops from early childhood... Read More about Demystifying executive function.