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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.

Creativity in teaching: what can teachers learn from artists? (2016)
Journal Article
Hall, C., & Thomson, P. (in press). Creativity in teaching: what can teachers learn from artists?. Research Papers in Education, 32(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2016.1144216

Since the turn of the century, there have been frequent expressions of concern about a perceived lack of creativity in UK schools, in both curriculum content and in teaching. Recently, as the emphasis on mathematics, science and technology has streng... Read More about Creativity in teaching: what can teachers learn from artists?.

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.

Beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography (2015)
Journal Article
Coles, R., & Thomson, P. (2015). Beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography. Ethnography and Education, 11(3), 253-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2015.1085324

Ethnographers are particularly interested in writing. They have paid particular attention to the practices of making field notes and to the ways in which their public texts represent those that they have encountered and studied. To date there has bee... Read More about Beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography.

‘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.

Bringing installation art to reconnaissance to share values and generate action (2015)
Journal Article
with the ‘Get Wet’ team, Townsend, A., & Thomson, P. (2015). Bringing installation art to reconnaissance to share values and generate action. Educational Action Research, 23(1), 36-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2014.994013

The English education system has recently seen something of a revival of enthusiasm for the use of research both to develop educational practices and to gather evidence about their effectiveness. These initiatives often present action research as a m... Read More about Bringing installation art to reconnaissance to share values and generate action.

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.

Teachers, arts practice and pedagogy (2014)
Journal Article
Franks, A., Thomson, P., Hall, C., & Jones, K. (2014). Teachers, arts practice and pedagogy. Changing English, 21(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684X.2014.897042

What are possible overlaps between arts practice and school pedagogy? How is teacher subjectivity and pedagogy affected when teachers engage with arts practice, in particular, theatre practices? We draw on research conducted into the Learning Perform... Read More about Teachers, arts practice and pedagogy.

‘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.

From poster to PhD: The evolution of a literature review (2010)
Book Chapter
Dixon, K., & Janks, H. (2010). From poster to PhD: The evolution of a literature review. In M. Walker, & P. Thomson (Eds.), The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor's Companion: Supporting Effective Research in Education and the Social Sciences. Routledge

A literature review evolves. At first the literature constitutes the research, then it is constituted by it. The story of the evolution of the literature review for Kerryn’s research is intertwined with the story of her evolving relationship with Hila... Read More about From poster to PhD: The evolution of a literature review.