Browse theses by postgraduate research students from the Plymouth Institute of Education.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Children with Williams Syndrome: Experiences of mainstream primary schools, Katherine Gulliver
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Cooperative schools: Learning to be cooperative in a changing educational landscape, Tracey Anne Downes
Investigating ‘active citizenship’: a journey toward the political heart of education in the company of Hannah Arendt., Kevin Richard Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
A Relational Analysis of the Writing Cafe: Social Learning, Participant Experiences and Tensions in Higher Education, Christie Pritchard
Using diffractive activity to (re)configure parental choice of pre-compulsory education, Vicky Bamsey
‘Whether the elves are watching or not’. Listening to teachers’ experiences regarding surveillance technologies in schools., Martin Edward Edmonds
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Democracy as Becoming: A Lived Enquiry into Teacher Perspectives of Philosophy for/with Children (P4C) Practice in Irish Educate Together Schools, Gillen Motherway
The Experiences of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students and Specialist Teachers in Mainstream Schools in Saudi Arabia, Mubarak Alanazi
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
A case study of 'internationalisation at home' leading to a proposal for Critical Global Pedagogies, Pollyanna Magne
Critical thinking across the disciplines: understanding and application, Joe Allison
HEADTEACHER EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF STANDARDS-LED REFORM IN ENGLISH SECONDARY SCHOOLS, Paul Stuart Norman
How do children’s personal narratives influence their choices at school?, Paul James Gosling
Meeting and Minding: early interactions and learning who we are, Rod Parker-Rees
Oral Story: A pedagogical tool encouraging children's mathematical thinking., Caroline McGrath
The Successes and Limitations of Retraining Non-specialist Teachers to Teach Mathematics, Naomi Sani
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
COMPARING INTERVENTIONS AND BELIEFS ABOUT AUTISM AND LINKS TO INTERPERSONAL RELATEDNESS IN TWO CITIES, IN TURKEY AND ENGLAND, MAHMUT SERKAN YAZICI
Learning to become a subject: A hermeneutic phenomenological study of students in a Waldorf (Steiner) school in Germany, Martyn Rawson
Lost in Translation? Non-STEM Academics in the 'Entrepreneurial' University, Derek Dodd
Professional Pathways for Teacher Educators in Further Education practice: a framework to support professional learning., Susan Webster
The Impact of Arts Education Programmes on Anti-Racist School Practice in the South West of England, Heather Knight
The significance of the field of practice ‘Learning Development’ in UK higher education, John Hilsdon
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT ON THE WELLBEING OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIFIC LEARNING DIFFICULTIES THROUGH TEACHING INTERVENTIONS, Dylan K. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF CHILDREN’S EXPERIENCES OF ROLE-PLAY IN TWO PACK-AWAY EARLY CHILDHOOD SETTINGS., Zenna Mary Kingdon
How do Social Work Students Develop their Professional Identity?, Julia Wheeler
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Employment of Ex-Military As Teachers: The Military, Masculinity and Moral Regulation, Peter James Le Gassick
Beliefs and Relationships during Children’s Transition to School: Parents, Practitioners and Teachers, Karen Wickett
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Mature Women and Higher Education: Reconstructing Identity and Family Relationships, Louise Webber
Professional development and beyond: a participative study of a self-facilitated learning group, Helen Goodall
Students' Experiences of Dance: a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, Goran Krantz
THE IMPORTANCE OF HUMOUR IN EDUCATIONAL STAFFROOMS, Kmita Maria
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
DESIGNING, PILOTING AND EVALUATING AN ICT TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR NOVICE FEMALE PRIMARY TEACHERS IN SAUDI, ENSAF AL MULJIM
DEVELOPING AN E-LEARNING TRAINING PACKAGE FOR ACADEMIC STAFF IN ONE UNIVERSITY IN SAUDI ARABIA, AHMED AL MULHEM
Sustainability in Secondary Education in England: An Ethnographic Study, Ciaran Francis O'Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Developing early algebraic reasoning in a mathematical community of inquiry, Jodie Margaret Roberta Hunter
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
What place has grammar in the English curriculum? An analysis of ninety years’ policy debate: 1921 to 2011., Phillip Richard Norman
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Wild Country Hall: Children’s learning at a residential outdoor education centre., Anthony Thomas Rea
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
LOOKING FOR A FAIRER ASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN'S LEARNING DEVELOPMENT AND ATTAINMENT IN THE INFANT YEARS: AN EDUCATIONAL ACTION RESEARCH CASE STUDY, MARGARET FOLLOWS
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
RE-EXAMINING SCHOLARSHIP: EXPLORING THE MEANINGS OF BOYER'S DIMENSIONS TO THE PROFESSORIATE, JULIA CRAIG LAKER
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Does Collaboration Matter? A Paradigm for Practical Educational Research, David Philip White
Interactive teaching in the National Numeracy Strategy: tensions in a supportive framework, Nick Pratt
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Understanding formative assessment in extended classroom curricular interaction, John Gulliver
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Bullying in a primary school : a case study, Christopher Graham Lee
Process of change in teaching and learning in higher education : integrating information and communication technology, Susan Janet English
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
AN INVESTIGATION OF LOWER SECONDARY PUPILS' IMAGES OF MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICIANS, SUSAN HELEN PICKER
Extending literacy : pupils' interactions with texts, with particular emphasis on the use of non-fiction texts, Maureen Lewis
Nature and justifiability of the act of collective worship in schools, Jeanette Gill
The influence of school staffs on primary PGCE trainee teachers' professional learning, Robin Michael Yeomans
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Examination of the role of the teacher in early reading, Rosalind Fisher
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
SCHOOL BASED TRAINING: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF AN ARTICLED TEACHER COURSE AND A ONE YEAR PGCE, CAROLINE WHITING
Teachers' involvement in decision-making: a case-study of a primary school at a time of rapid change, Denis Hayes
THE DAY-TO-DAY WORK OF PRIMARY HEADTEACHERS: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY, ROGER JAMES REVELL
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
WHAT IS THE NATURE AND PROCESS OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING?, Sylvia Margaret Warham
