Professor PATRICIA THOMSON's Outputs (7)

The Researching the Arts in Primary Schools Project (2024)
Report
Thomson, P., Hall, C., & Maloy, L. (in press). The Researching the Arts in Primary Schools Project. arts primary.com: Freelands Foundation

Arts-rich primary schools are highly diverse. There is no one way to be arts-rich. However, there are patterns across the schools that can inform other schools and the school system more generally.

Arts-rich schools offer art and music to all chil... Read More about The Researching the Arts in Primary Schools Project.

Towards a framework for care-full teacher learning: stories from the British art show professional development programme (2024)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., & Coles, R. (2024). Towards a framework for care-full teacher learning: stories from the British art show professional development programme. Professional Development in Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2024.2433069

The education system in England can arguably be characterised as careless. Art teachers for example are rarely offered opportunities to acquire subject-specific knowledges. This paper reports on a programme which supported art teachers to engage with... Read More about Towards a framework for care-full teacher learning: stories from the British art show professional development programme.

Doctoral memes as public pedagogy? Or, heaven knows I’m miserable now (2024)
Journal Article
Thomson, P. (2024). Doctoral memes as public pedagogy? Or, heaven knows I’m miserable now. Studies in Continuing Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/0158037X.2024.2417095

Social media afford the proliferation of doctoral memes across numerous, generally anonymous, accounts spread over multiple platforms-the timeline where the PhD candidate starts off gleaming with health and beaming in delight and ends up an overweigh... Read More about Doctoral memes as public pedagogy? Or, heaven knows I’m miserable now.

Why bother with arts education in schools? (2024)
Journal Article
Thomson, P. (2025). Why bother with arts education in schools?. Australian Educational Researcher, 52, 781–801. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00741-0

Enrolments in school arts subjects are falling in both England and Australia. There are various arguments made in an attempt to reverse the situation. The arts are said to be vital for the economy, linked to success in core school subjects, are educa... Read More about Why bother with arts education in schools?.

Leaders resisting? The very idea (2024)
Book Chapter
Thomson, P., McKay, A., & Blackmore, J. (2024). Leaders resisting? The very idea. In A. McKay, P. Thomson, & J. Blackmore (Eds.), Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration (3-23). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003279334-2

While educational researchers have taken up the question of resistance, their interest is not shared by the majority of researchers in the educational leadership management and administration field. Our review of literatures within and beyond educati... Read More about Leaders resisting? The very idea.

Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration (2024)
Book
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.

The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times (2024)
Journal Article
Thomson, P., & Greany, T. (in press). The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times. Educational Management Administration and Leadership, https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432231218544

The COVID 19 pandemic created new challenges for school leaders. They worked very long hours in difficult circumstances. Improvising and responding quickly to poorly timed central guidelines had an adverse effect on their health and wellbeing. Our mi... Read More about The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times.