Plymouth Institute of Education: Recent submissions
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Quality Early Childhood Education and Care in a Time of COVID-19
(SAGE PublicationsEngland, 2023-02-11)<jats:p> Contextual approaches to high quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) seek to capture the complexity of children’s lives, developing pedagogical approaches that are responsive to children’s needs and ... -
Recontextualisation and the teaching of subjects
(Wiley, 2021-11)<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This paper interrogates the concept of recontextualisation and discusses its relevance for understandings of the knowledge required for teaching subjects. While various distinctive ... -
Powerful knowledge and knowledgeable practice
(Informa UK Limited, 2022-03-04)This paper argues that Young and Muller’s ‘powerful knowledge’ requires a more extensive conceptualization of the relation between knowledge and practice. However, rather than focus on the ‘practice turn’ in social theory ... -
Rethinking the foundations: towards powerful professional knowledge in teacher education in the USA and England
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-03-04)In this paper, we aim to outline what foundations can offer in terms of understanding education and educational practice, and thus for providing a basis for teachers’ professional knowledge. We look critically at the ... -
Towards powerful educational knowledge? Addressing the challenges facing educational foundations, curriculum theory and <i>Didaktik</i>
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-03-04)This paper introduces a special issue which aims to address the challenges facing the ‘deliberative’ educational knowledge traditions of educational foundations, curriculum theory and Didaktik as a consequence of the ... -
The core content framework and the 'new science' of educational research
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023-02-27)This paper unpacks the assumptions underpinning England’s new Core Content Framework (CCF) in respect of the educational research required for teacher expertise, with particular attention to the sources referenced in the ... -
Case Study: Exploring pre-schoolers’ attitudes and behaviour towards the environment
(NCFENewcastle upon Tyne, 2022-12-31)This document will support the sector, including early years students and parents/carers, to engage with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and learn more about our responsibilities to each other and the world in ... -
Why working creatively is still important in English primary classrooms in 2022: an appreciative empirical inquiry
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023-02-08)This study focuses on the current situation regarding children working creatively in schools. With two colleagues, I used a form of action research called Appreciative Inquiry, working in collaboration with teachers. ... -
A content analysis of school leaders’ conversations about ‘off rolling’ on Twitter and its relevance to teacher education
(Informa UK Limited, 2022-07-03)This article seeks to illustrate the usefulness to teacher educators of small-scale qualitative social media content analysis by reporting a study of online microblogs (tweets) posted by senior school leaders’ relating ... -
The policy and practice of mathematics mastery: the effects of neoliberalism and neoconservatism on curriculum reform.
(Wiley, 2023-02-21)This paper explores how the twin processes of neoliberalism and neoconservatism work together on, and through, curricula and their associated pedagogies. It bridges the gap between policy and classroom practice, focusing ...
