Outputs (1361)

Wellbeing with/out noticing: Developing an Outdoor Community and Learning Space on a University Campus (2025)
Book Chapter
Elliot, J., Dixon, K., & Wood, E. Wellbeing with/out noticing: Developing an Outdoor Community and Learning Space on a University Campus. In Nature, Outdoor Learning and Wellbeing. Bloomsbury

There is very little literature on the use of outdoor spaces in higher education despite the pedagogic potential of these spaces, the embodied nature of learning, and the ways we are always in relation with the world. This chapter outlines the ration... Read More about Wellbeing with/out noticing: Developing an Outdoor Community and Learning Space on a University Campus.

Chinese young children’s perspectives on gender and their teachers in a high-socio-economic-status kindergarten (2025)
Book Chapter
Zhang, J., Chen, Z., Zhu, Y., Xu, Y., & Li, M. (in press). Chinese young children’s perspectives on gender and their teachers in a high-socio-economic-status kindergarten. In D. Brody, Y. Xu, K. Emilsen, & L. Coles (Eds.), Young Children’s Perspectives on Teacher Gender: Contextualizing Gender Stereotypes and Inclusive Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care. Routledge

This chapter presents findings from a case study in a private, international kindergarten serving 3-6 years old children from affluent and high socio-economic status (SES) families in Hangzhou City, China. Building on existing research (Xu, 2020) tha... Read More about Chinese young children’s perspectives on gender and their teachers in a high-socio-economic-status kindergarten.

Insights and the importance of (researching) children’s perspectives on gender (2025)
Book Chapter
Brody, D., & Xu, Y. (in press). Insights and the importance of (researching) children’s perspectives on gender. In Young Children’s Perspectives on Teacher Gender: Contextualizing Gender Stereotypes and Inclusive Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care. Routledge

The final chapter encompasses insights drawn from answers to the research questions. Children identified types of activities and ascribed different emotions to their male and female teachers. Staffing and organizational structure of the sites relate... Read More about Insights and the importance of (researching) children’s perspectives on gender.

Young Children’s Perspectives on Teacher Gender: Contextualizing Gender Stereotypes and Inclusive Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care (2025)
Book
Brody, D., Xu, Y., Emilsen, K., & Coles, L. (Eds.). (in press). Young Children’s Perspectives on Teacher Gender: Contextualizing Gender Stereotypes and Inclusive Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care. Routledge

This book draws on ethnographic studies in nine countries across six continents to examine children’s perspectives on their male and female teachers.

Contributors from China, Brazil, Australia, South Africa, Israel, Turkey, Norway, UK, and the USA... Read More about Young Children’s Perspectives on Teacher Gender: Contextualizing Gender Stereotypes and Inclusive Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care.

Poetic professional learning through self-study in educational research (2025)
Book Chapter
Pithouse-Morgan, K., Madondo, S., & Hiralaal, A. (2025). Poetic professional learning through self-study in educational research. In D. L. Mulligan, M. Forbes, E. A. Anteliz, & P. Alan Danaher (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Autoethnographic and Self-Study Education Research Methods. Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter explores the integration of poetic professional learning within self-study research, as illustrated by the doctoral inquiries of S’phiwe Madondo (2021) and Anita Hiralaal (2018), guided by Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan. It examines how poetry... Read More about Poetic professional learning through self-study in educational research.

Collectivity and agency for hope to progress anti-racist change in the academy (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Madriaga, M. (2025). Collectivity and agency for hope to progress anti-racist change in the academy

Despair is global antiblackness manifesting itself in our universities. This paper pivots from this despair, without discounting it, to foreground hope for anti-racist change. Drawing on data from 30 semi-structured interviews with anti-racist univer... Read More about Collectivity and agency for hope to progress anti-racist change in the academy.

Why sociology? – comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary, and England (2025)
Journal Article
Hordosy, R., Yasdiman, M. B., & Norris, J. (2025). Why sociology? – comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary, and England. Educational Review,

This paper pinpoints the driving forces behind university degree choice in social sciences in three European countries. Using an international comparative design, the paper draws on both administrative secondary data to explore enrolment patterns in... Read More about Why sociology? – comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary, and England.

Conditions for change in pre-service teachers’ beliefs about proof and proof teaching (2025)
Journal Article
Lee, G. (in press). Conditions for change in pre-service teachers’ beliefs about proof and proof teaching. Mathematics Education Research Journal,

Many educators suggest that proof is essential for the learning of mathematics and should be placed at the centre of school mathematics. However, research has indicated that many teachers have counterproductive beliefs about proof which limit student... Read More about Conditions for change in pre-service teachers’ beliefs about proof and proof teaching.

Shifting the discourse of teacher quality (2025)
Book Chapter
White, R., Peralta, L., & Day, C. (2025). Shifting the discourse of teacher quality. In R. White, & A. Simpson (Eds.), What’s the Evidence? An Investigation into Teacher Quality. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003542575-8

In recent decades, a neoliberal agenda of economic and social transformation has re-shaped education through a political focus on the quality of teachers, with education system itself publicly scrutinised for its shortcomings or ‘failings’. Professio... Read More about Shifting the discourse of teacher quality.

Gender as an issue of curricular (in)justice: A review of national early childhood education curriculum documents in England from 1996-2021 (2025)
Journal Article
Lehner-Mear, R., Dixon, K., Xu, Y., Gripton, C., & Cooker, L. (2025). Gender as an issue of curricular (in)justice: A review of national early childhood education curriculum documents in England from 1996-2021. The Curriculum Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.326

In England, gender is currently a controversial issue, with debates in social and political spheres increasingly impacting educational policy. Simultaneously, scholarship on gender in Early Childhood Education (ECE) advocates more gender-sensitive pe... Read More about Gender as an issue of curricular (in)justice: A review of national early childhood education curriculum documents in England from 1996-2021.