All Outputs (3)

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.

Primary school teaching: A classed and gendered profession - Poetically exploring the narratives of female trainee primary school teachers (2022)
Thesis

This thesis explores the narratives of middle-class and working-class undergraduate women in their first year as student teachers on the three-year Primary Initial Teacher Education degree at a post-92 university. It simultaneously explores my own cl... Read More about Primary school teaching: A classed and gendered profession - Poetically exploring the narratives of female trainee primary school teachers.

Talking in class: A study of socio-economic difference in the primary school classroom (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 UKLA. In this paper, I consider the relationship between socio-economic background and the school experience of two groups of children. I seek to establish whether or not there are identifiable differences in the language of primary school chi... Read More about Talking in class: A study of socio-economic difference in the primary school classroom.