Professor PATRICIA THOMSON's Outputs (4)

‘The way I know is by looking back’: English primary school children’s views of making progress in arts subjects (2023)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., Maloy, L., & Hall, C. (2024). ‘The way I know is by looking back’: English primary school children’s views of making progress in arts subjects. Education 3-13, 52(2), 251-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2023.2253075

Educators are concerned that children make progress in their learning. While there are both policy and professional debates about how progress should be monitored and assessed, the views of children are rarely considered. Grounded in the ‘voiced’ res... Read More about ‘The way I know is by looking back’: English primary school children’s views of making progress in arts subjects.

Research Subjects, Participants or Co‐researchers? Extending the Involvement of Students in Art and Design Research (2023)
Journal Article
Maloy, L., & Thomson, P. (2023). Research Subjects, Participants or Co‐researchers? Extending the Involvement of Students in Art and Design Research. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 42(3), 353-366. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12470

Art education has a range of purposes. Art is said to support students to explore, interpret, ask critical questions, communicate and realise ideas, experiment, take risks, collaborate, tell stories and/or engage in social and political actions. In t... Read More about Research Subjects, Participants or Co‐researchers? Extending the Involvement of Students in Art and Design Research.

Arts-rich schools (2023)
Book Chapter
Thomson, P., & Hall, C. (2023). Arts-rich schools. In Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life (13-30). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003093084-2

The chapter addresses the first key concept – the arts-rich school. It establishes the key characteristics of the arts-rich school and offers views from senior leaders about why they think the arts are important and how they ensure that the arts are... Read More about Arts-rich schools.

Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life (2023)
Book
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.