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:
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:
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:
Pedagogic practice:
Philosophy with children:
Science education:
Sociology of education: