All Outputs (35)

Subject choice as everyday accommodation/resistance: why students in England (still) choose the arts (2018)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., Hall, C., Earl, L., & Geppert, C. (2020). Subject choice as everyday accommodation/resistance: why students in England (still) choose the arts. Critical Studies in Education, 61(5), 545-560. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2018.1525754

High school students are expected to make choices about which subjects they study. These choices are not completely open but steered by what is on offer, previous achievement and conversations with teachers, family and friends; choices are patterned... Read More about Subject choice as everyday accommodation/resistance: why students in England (still) choose the arts.

Alternative Programmes, Alternative Schools, and Social Justice (2018)
Book
McGregor, G., Mills, M., Thomson, P., & Pennacchia, J. (Eds.). (2018). Alternative Programmes, Alternative Schools, and Social Justice. Abingdon: Routledge

Alternative provision in England: problematising quality and vulnerability (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomson, P., & Pennacchia, J. (2018). Alternative provision in England: problematising quality and vulnerability. In M. Mills, & G. McCluskey (Eds.), International perspectives on alternative education: policy and practice. UCL IOE Press

A long goodbye to the 'good girl': An auto ethnographic account (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomson, P. (2018). A long goodbye to the 'good girl': An auto ethnographic account. In Feeling academic in the neoliberal university: Feminist flights, fights and failures (243-260). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64224-6_11

The contemporary university relies on academic staff who are ready and willing to be highly productive on a number of fronts—publish widely and for a range of audiences, publish for audit purposes, attract funding, work in interdisciplinary teams, pr... Read More about A long goodbye to the 'good girl': An auto ethnographic account.

A little more madness in our methods?: a snapshot of how the educational leadership, management and administration field conducts research (2017)
Journal Article
Thomson, P. (in press). A little more madness in our methods?: a snapshot of how the educational leadership, management and administration field conducts research. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 49(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2017.1315381

The field of educational leadership, management and administration (ELMA) uses methods drawn primarily from cognate educational disciplines. But does this matter? This paper explores the methods used in recently published papers through a snapshot of... Read More about A little more madness in our methods?: a snapshot of how the educational leadership, management and administration field conducts research.

Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools (2016)
Book
Thomson, P., & Hall, C. (2016). Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools. Bloomsbury Publishing

Educational leadership and Pierre Bourdieu (2016)
Book
Thomson, P. (2016). Educational leadership and Pierre Bourdieu. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He argued for, and practiced, rigorous and reflexive scholarship, interrogating the inequities and injustices of modern societies. Through a lifetime’s explication of th... Read More about Educational leadership and Pierre Bourdieu.

Poverty, schooling, and beginning teachers who make a difference: a case study from England (2016)
Book Chapter
McIntyre, J., & Thomson, P. (2016). Poverty, schooling, and beginning teachers who make a difference: a case study from England. In J. Lampert, & B. Burnett (Eds.), Teacher education in high poverty schools. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22059-8_9

Education policy makers in England have, over the last thirty years, radically changed schooling. The introduction of a national curriculum, national testing re-gimes, school inspections and school league tables has been at the heart of these changes... Read More about Poverty, schooling, and beginning teachers who make a difference: a case study from England.

Disciplinary regimes of ‘care’ and complementary alternative education (2015)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., & Pennacchia, J. (2016). Disciplinary regimes of ‘care’ and complementary alternative education. Critical Studies in Education, 57(1), 84-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2016.1117506

In schools, the notion of ‘care is often synonymous with welfare and disciplinary regimes. Drawing on Foucault, and a study of alternative education across the UK, and looking in depth at two cases of complementary alternative education, we identify... Read More about Disciplinary regimes of ‘care’ and complementary alternative education.

Hugs and behaviour points: alternative education and the regulation of ‘excluded’ youth (2015)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., & Pennacchia, J. (2016). Hugs and behaviour points: alternative education and the regulation of ‘excluded’ youth. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 20(6), 622-640. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2015.1102340

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In England, alternative education (AE) is offered to young people formally excluded from school, close to formal exclusion or who have been informally pushed to the educational edges of their local school. Their behaviour i... Read More about Hugs and behaviour points: alternative education and the regulation of ‘excluded’ youth.

‘Everyone can imagine their own Gellert’: the democratic artist and ‘inclusion’ in primary and nursery classrooms (2015)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., & Hall, C. (2015). ‘Everyone can imagine their own Gellert’: the democratic artist and ‘inclusion’ in primary and nursery classrooms. Education 3-13, 43(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2015.1020660

What do artists do when they work in schools? Can teachers do the same? These were the questions at the heart of our recent research, investigating the work of 12 artists working in primary and secondary schools in England. Funded by Creativity, Cult... Read More about ‘Everyone can imagine their own Gellert’: the democratic artist and ‘inclusion’ in primary and nursery classrooms.

Arts in the community as a place-making event (2014)
Book Chapter
Thomson, P., Barrett, A., Hall, C., Hanby, J., & Jones, S. (2014). Arts in the community as a place-making event. The Routledge international handbook of arts and educationTaylor & Francis (Routledge)

The uses and abuses of power: teaching school leadership through children's literature (2014)
Journal Article
Thomson, P. (2014). The uses and abuses of power: teaching school leadership through children's literature. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 46(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2014.940858

There are relatively few studies of how representations of teachers, schools and educational administrators in popular films and television might be, and are, used in leadership preparation. This paper seeks to add to this small body of work; it repo... Read More about The uses and abuses of power: teaching school leadership through children's literature.

‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges (2014)
Journal Article
Thomson, P. (2014). ‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges. Critical Studies in Education, 55(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2014.863221

Educational policy-makers around the world are strongly committed to the notion of ‘scaling up’. This can mean anything from encouraging more teachers to take up a pedagogical innovation, all the way through to system-wide efforts to implement ‘what... Read More about ‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges.

What's The Alternative? Effective support for young people disengaging from the mainstream (2014)
Report
Thomson, P., & Pennacchia, J. (2014). What's The Alternative? Effective support for young people disengaging from the mainstream. Prince's Trust