All Outputs (6)

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.

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.

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?.

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.

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.

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.