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Imagining—and (Re)Imaging—peace through art education
No full textThis editorial is not available on ChesterRep.Editorial for the Special Issue PEACE—inspired by the iJADE conference of the same title held in 2024 at Liverpool Hope University
Capital Punishment – An Investigation into the impact of Capital on the Closing the Gap Initiative
No full textPlease be advised that this thesis cannot be viewed if requested.This research examines the role of varying forms of Pierre Bourdieu’s capital (cultural, social, economic, and symbolic) on the current UK government’s Closing the Gap initiative, exploring the impact of these different forms on the progress of children in the UK’s school system. It examines the link between Bourdieu’s notions of capital, habitus and social reproduction and relates these concepts to Michel Foucault’s ideas about power and power knowledge. The research is underpinned by two forms of incompatible storytelling. The first explores the idea of educational equality, which is promoted by educational policy and practice in the UK, the second is my autoethnographic experience of education. Throughout this research, there is consideration of my current context as I explore my autoethnographic experiences as a teacher, mapping my thoughts against UK education narratives to trace students’ likely educational and experiential trajectories. The research reveals the power of the promise of education and, despite my attempt to depict the claim’s emptiness, there is a sense of irony that sees me unable to completely renounce this promise, as the very nature of it is what led to the completion of this thesis that you currently hold in your hands
Caught in the crisis: Early career mathematics teachers’ perceptions of research and practice beyond Initial Teacher Education
No full textThis study aims to represent six early career mathematics teachers’ perceptions of their experiences relating to their first steps into mathematics teaching posts leaving Initial Teacher Education (ITE) behind them. Situated in a time of unprecedented political intervention into frameworks for ITE and early career teacher development, which has been mandated explicitly for the first time, and when recruitment and retention is at crisis level, this interpretive practitioner research focused on specific aspects of the lives of the early career teachers in their own environment, with the aim to further understand the experiences they shared and to develop an understanding of the complexities of professional learning for early career mathematics teachers. The study uses a democratic pedagogy lens as a means of interrogating the early career teachers’ perceptions of how they developed their professional knowledge focusing on the ways they were able to interpret mathematics education research that informed their practice during the Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) and whether teacher education has empowered them as decision makers in their own classrooms. Through semi-structured interviews with the early career teachers at two points in their first year the findings were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis involving the use of data coding to develop themes which represented the social and political experiences the early career teachers described. This study highlighted tensions between mathematics education research and the political and policy driven regimes present in our education system which have directly impacted the early career teachers’ professional development opportunities and raised the question of whether mathematics teacher education is in crisis
PREOCCUPIED: The role of peacebuilding in formal education in the West Bank
No full textThis thesis is an ethnographic study of six teacher educators working in university settings in the West Bank, an Occupied Palestinian Territory. It explores these teacher educators’ perceptions, values, and attitudes about the role of peacebuilding in Formal Education (FE). It focuses particularly on the teacher educators’ practice, which is to train student teachers to be certified as competent to work in schools either managed or run by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE). The research shows that there are tensions surrounding the conceptualisation of the meaning of teacher competency among contributors to teacher education. The tension lies most noticeably between schools and universities. This thesis thus captures the (dis)continuities of an FE system caught between the conditions of colonial and military occupation and performative measures and strategies enforced by the MoEHE. These problems are compounded by the complex associations of FE with Palestinian liberation.
From the expressions the teacher educators used to convey their ideas, metaphors provide a powerful analytical device. The thesis employs a narrative analysis to foreground these metaphors as more than a rhetorical device. The metaphors provide reflexive insight into the (extra)ordinary lives of the teacher educators and the specificities of the cultural and political context from which their understandings of peacebuilding arise. The data shows that the teacher educators have individual and shared tensions about the underlying principles of peace, which consequently inform the roles of peacebuilding in FE from complex and contradictory positions. These metaphors expose an FE system that is a victim and a perpetrator both of forms of violence, and of the complex conditions under which peacebuilding either thrives or is diminished. The data also shows that peacebuilding in FE is most contentious where there is a disconnect with social justice and a connection with tatbi’a (normalisation) and counterinsurgency.
In its final analysis, this thesis draws on the perspectives of Johan Galtung, Paulo Freire and Pierre Bourdieu to disturb deep-rooted thinking about peacebuilding in the West Bank. As a consequence of exploring the data through these theoretical lenses, the thesis exposes deep fractures in thinking and beliefs which are perpetuated by deeply entrenched, competing discourses that cannot be easily resolved. This thesis encourages academics and policy makers in the fields of critical peace education and education in conflict to consider generative peacebuilding frameworks that focus on conflicts within Palestinian society as well as those arising from the Occupation, and see them as mutually reinforcing rather than treating them purely as separate issues
Transformative interventions: Creative practices in an Education Doctorate programme
No full textThis research explores the effects upon students’ doctoral research of the experience of engaging with a mandatory creativity component that was introduced into the second year of their EdD (educational doctorate) programme. The research focuses on the transformative potential of creative interventions upon the professional practices of students who previously had had little opportunity or experience of practising and theorising creatively. The course was run in collaboration with an international contemporary art gallery, which provided the stimulus and catalyst for the subsequent creative practices. Two case studies of students from diverse professional backgrounds, health and mathematics, disclose and discuss their personal experience of studying and utilising arts-based research methodologies, and consider the consequences of this for their subsequent approach to doctoral research
Dilemmas of alienation in arts-based education research methods
Full text linkWe discuss the use of arts-based practices from our recent investigations into research methodologies, comparing the approaches of educators and doctoral students whose work has derived predominantly from their previous experience of arts-based practices with those who had no previous experience of such practices, but who nonetheless engaged with it for at least part of their research. All of our participants are professionals engaged with education backgrounds, such as doctoral students, teachers and gallery educators, and we explore some of the tensions arising between professional and arts-based practices, and discuss questions of the legitimacy and validity of these practices as perceived by our participants, with a critical focus on the feelings of scepticism and alienation that arts-based methods may generate for the inexperienced
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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