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‘I wasn't worried because I wasn't being judged’: The development of pre-service teacher professional capital, pedagogical instinct and discretionary judgement during an overseas teaching placement (2022)
Journal Article
Witt, M., Lewis, F., & Knight, B. (2022). ‘I wasn't worried because I wasn't being judged’: The development of pre-service teacher professional capital, pedagogical instinct and discretionary judgement during an overseas teaching placement. Teaching and Teacher Education, 112, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103642

Assertions that experiences of teaching abroad encourage professional growth for pre-service teachers (PSTs) are discussed, with reference to reflections from 20 PSTs from a British university after a volunteer teaching placement in South Africa (SA)... Read More about ‘I wasn't worried because I wasn't being judged’: The development of pre-service teacher professional capital, pedagogical instinct and discretionary judgement during an overseas teaching placement.

The classroom as a complex adaptive system (CAS): Credible framing, useful metaphor or mis-designation? (2022)
Journal Article
Knight, B. (2022). The classroom as a complex adaptive system (CAS): Credible framing, useful metaphor or mis-designation?. International Journal of Complexity in Education, 3(1),

This paper discusses the legitimacy of framing school classrooms as complex adaptive systems (CASs) with the aim of advancing discourse about the extent to which systems within education can be usefully designated as complex. Perspectives differ on c... Read More about The classroom as a complex adaptive system (CAS): Credible framing, useful metaphor or mis-designation?.

Difference as an essential teacher in a Them-Us international context: Pre-service teachers’ reflections on a university township teaching project (2021)
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Carter, J., Knight, B., & Vickers-Hulse, K. (2023). Difference as an essential teacher in a Them-Us international context: Pre-service teachers’ reflections on a university township teaching project. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 31(3), 459-476. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2021.1923559

This article explores data from a group of British pre-service teachers (PST) following a teaching programme in South Africa. Their reflections are analysed in relation to assertions that such intercultural programmes do little to change hegemonic be... Read More about Difference as an essential teacher in a Them-Us international context: Pre-service teachers’ reflections on a university township teaching project.

The evolving codification of teachers’ work: Policy, politics and the consequences of pursuing quality control in Initial Teacher Education (2017)
Journal Article
Knight, B. (2017). The evolving codification of teachers’ work: Policy, politics and the consequences of pursuing quality control in Initial Teacher Education. Teacher Education Advancement Network, 9(1), 4-13

This paper documents the evolution of attempts to codify and standardize teachers’ work in the United Kingdom (UK), with particular attention to how this phenomenon has impacted the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) sector. In recent decades the teach... Read More about The evolving codification of teachers’ work: Policy, politics and the consequences of pursuing quality control in Initial Teacher Education.

Book review: Fostering scientific habits of mind: Pedagogical knowledge and best practices in science education Edited by Issa M. Saleh and Myint Swe Khine (Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2009), 36 pp. £35(pbk), ISBN 978-90-8790-921-5 (2011)
Journal Article
Knight, B. (2011). Book review: Fostering scientific habits of mind: Pedagogical knowledge and best practices in science education Edited by Issa M. Saleh and Myint Swe Khine (Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2009), 36 pp. £35(pbk), ISBN 978-90-8790-921-5. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 30(4), 569-571. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2011.588475