Staff Research Interests

Research interests of School of Education staff

Click on the links to be directed to the publications of some staff members:

Cognition:

• Sociocultural and activity theory, learning and cognition;
• Primary schooling, classroom teaching and learning and cognitive development

Curriculum:

• Curriculum studies; sociology of knowledge; education policy
• Curriculum, teachers' work and the sociological study of pedagogy

Education policy:

• Education policy; school organisation and change; ethics and social justice in education

History education:

• Contemporary history (especially the ways in which totalitarian regimes are remembered/narrated in a pedagogical setting) and oral and popular history;
• History teacher education and primary and secondary history teaching

Educational Technologies and Emerging practices:

• Mobile learning, emerging technologies, emerging digital practices, social learning, online learning, knowledge production, and Open Education Resources (OER)

Language education:

• Language and literacy as social practice; language ideologies; multilingualism in schooling; critical literacy; identity/subjectivity and learning; race, class and gender in education; classroom discourse; youth language and identity in South Africa;
• Literacy as situated social practice;
• English in education; classroom discourse; the politics of English; literacy practices; language and identity; the school to university transition

Mathematics education:

• Second chance maths;
• Complexity science and diversity

Pedagogic practice:

• The relation between pedagogic practice and the broader contexts of the school, education system and society

Philosophy with children:

• Philosophy with Children, Child and Childhood Studies, Children’s Literature

Science education:

• Scientific literacy, the public understanding of science and the development and training of science teachers

Sociology of education:

• Sociology of education; education policy; school organisation and change; ethics and social justice in education.