School of Education and Continuing Studies (SECS)

Profile

Responsibilities/Duties

Course leader:  BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies

Course leader: BA (Hons) Childhood & Youth Studies

School Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Student Support Strategy

School Representative on Faculty Learning & Teaching Committee.

Faculty Representative on University Learning & Teaching Committee

Teaching Areas

Aspects of Early Childhood Studies on Foundation degree, BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies, BA (Hons) Education & Training Studies, BA (Hons) Childhood & Youth Studies and MA Learning & Teaching.

Research Interests

Critical thinking for Foundation degree students at HE level.

Blended learning and the use of the VLE/technology and childhood.

Student narratives/Student identity.

Supporting young children with EAL.

Recent papers

• Frobel Seminariet Copenhagen: April 2006 ‘Every Child Matters. Changes in early years  provision in the last 10 years in the UK’
• Faculty Learning and Teaching Conference 2007 - 'Thinking critically-a learning & teaching project'
• Childhood Today (2007) Positive and negative: An exploration of the impact of the personal disposition of early years practitioners on their teaching mathematics to young children.  Vol 1, Issue 2.
• Evangelische Fachochschule Frieburg, Germany.  October 2007 paper to staff and students on 'Working in Partnership with Parents'
• University of Portsmouth DCQE workshop for staff December 2007 - 'Reflective and Critical Writing'
• Third International Blended Learning Conference; University of Hertfordshire June 2008 "Developing Early Years Practitioners: making the links between theory and practice through a blended approach to professional development"
• IASK Teaching and Learning Conference 2009 Porto December. "The Pedagogy of Difference Learners Needs and the Uses of E Learning".
• International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education Vol 3 No 4 "Consideration of the uses of E Learning: Does one size fit all?" (2010).
• Early Years Foundation Stage Forum (Dec 2010) What's critical about critical thinking? Understanding academic terminology on a Foundation degree in Early Years.  www.foundation-stage.info/articles
• Early Years Professional Forum (Jan 2011) Developing Childrens Thinking Skills.  www.eyps.info/articles/publish/prodev/prodevindex.php.
• Early Childhood in Developing World Contexts. UCC (April 2011) Supporting children with English as an additional language in the EYFS (UK): meeting the challenges.
• Learner identity:Equity, Identity and Education.  Edge Hill (July 2011)  Inhabiting a third space: Foundation Degree students' exploration of identity through a class journal.