Professor PATRICIA THOMSON's Outputs (10)

Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration (2024)
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McKay, A., Thomson, P., & Blackmore, J. (Eds.). (2024). Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003279334

This edited volume brings together a range of perspectives on Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (ELMA) and various theories of resistance or compliance along with how policy and politics play out in school communities.

The book... Read More about Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration.

Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life (2023)
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Thomson, P., & Hall, C. (2023). Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003093084

‘Why study the arts at school?’ This book offers a fresh perspective on this question. Informed by rigorous research, the book argues that the arts help young people to develop key skills, knowledge and practices that support them to become both crit... Read More about Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life.

Why Garden In Schools? (2020)
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Earl, A., & Thomson, P. (2020). Why Garden In Schools?. Routledge

School scandals: blowing the whistle on the corruption of our school system (2020)
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THOMSON, P. (2020). School scandals: blowing the whistle on the corruption of our school system. Policy Press

School Scandals: Blowing the Whistle on the Corruption of Our Education System (2020)
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Thomson, P. (2020). School Scandals: Blowing the Whistle on the Corruption of Our Education System. (1). Policy Press

With almost daily reports of failings in school management, what can be done to improve educational outcomes for everyone? Pat Thomson takes on England???s muddled education system, highlighting failings caused by the actions of ministers in successi... Read More about School Scandals: Blowing the Whistle on the Corruption of Our Education System.

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

Literacy, Leading and Learning: Beyond Pedagogies of Poverty (2017)
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Hayes, D., Hattam, R., Comber, B., Kerkham, L., Lupton, R., & Thomson, P. (2017). Literacy, Leading and Learning: Beyond Pedagogies of Poverty. (1). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315180014

How might educational leaders and teachers improve literacy achievement in schools serving communities experiencing high levels of poverty? This question is the focus of this book. Drawing on long-term case studies of four primary schools located in... Read More about Literacy, Leading and Learning: Beyond Pedagogies of Poverty.

Inspiring school change: transforming education through the creative arts (2017)
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Hall, C., & Thomson, P. (2017). Inspiring school change: transforming education through the creative arts. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

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

Educational leadership and Pierre Bourdieu (2016)
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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.