Browse theses by postgraduate research students from the Plymouth Institute of Education.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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The assessment-related logics of practice at a South West Multi-Academy Trust, Samuel Gordon Morahan

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Children with Williams Syndrome: Experiences of mainstream primary schools, Katherine Gulliver

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PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ VALUES AND CHILDREN’S CRITICAL THINKING: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY IN ENGLAND AND TAIWAN, Lan Liu

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Cooperative schools: Learning to be cooperative in a changing educational landscape, Tracey Anne Downes

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Investigating ‘active citizenship’: a journey toward the political heart of education in the company of Hannah Arendt., Kevin Richard Walker

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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A Relational Analysis of the Writing Cafe: Social Learning, Participant Experiences and Tensions in Higher Education, Christie Pritchard

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CREATING UTOPIA: MEMORIES AND LEARNING TO LIVE WELL, Caroline Mikhail

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Making meaning of the sketchbook: an inquiry into the conceptualisation, content and form of sketchbooks, and associated pedagogical practices, in post-compulsory Art and Design education, with consideration of the effects of new technologies on practices., Simon Webster

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Using diffractive activity to (re)configure parental choice of pre-compulsory education, Vicky Bamsey

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‘Whether the elves are watching or not’. Listening to teachers’ experiences regarding surveillance technologies in schools., Martin Edward Edmonds

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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A life history study of young Chinese women's experiences under the influence of traditional culture and its contemporary evolution., Wenjun Liu

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Democracy as Becoming: A Lived Enquiry into Teacher Perspectives of Philosophy for/with Children (P4C) Practice in Irish Educate Together Schools, Gillen Motherway

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Social Work Students Managing Emotions: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Utilising Poetry and Prose as an Autoethnographic Turn, Beth Moran

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The Experiences of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students and Specialist Teachers in Mainstream Schools in Saudi Arabia, Mubarak Alanazi

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The struggles and triumphs of the invisible subject: the experiences of mature women students caring for those with learning disabilities whilst studying in Higher Education, Kitty King

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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A case study of 'internationalisation at home' leading to a proposal for Critical Global Pedagogies, Pollyanna Magne

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Critical thinking across the disciplines: understanding and application, Joe Allison

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HEADTEACHER EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF STANDARDS-LED REFORM IN ENGLISH SECONDARY SCHOOLS, Paul Stuart Norman

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How do children’s personal narratives influence their choices at school?, Paul James Gosling

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"It is possible to reinvent yourself!” An analysis of the learning lives and lived experience of adult literacy students in a Further Education context, Chris Grundy

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Meeting and Minding: early interactions and learning who we are, Rod Parker-Rees

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Oral Story: A pedagogical tool encouraging children's mathematical thinking., Caroline McGrath

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STUDENT VOICES AND STUDENT CHOICES: NARRATIVE ACCOUNTS OF DIFFERENTIATED HIGHER EDUCATION EXPERIENCES OF FIRST IN FAMILY HE STUDENTS, Philip Brown

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The Successes and Limitations of Retraining Non-specialist Teachers to Teach Mathematics, Naomi Sani

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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A Comparison of English and Turkish Early Years/Kindergarten Teachers’ Understandings of and Practices in Outdoor Activities, Mehmet Mart

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COMPARING INTERVENTIONS AND BELIEFS ABOUT AUTISM AND LINKS TO INTERPERSONAL RELATEDNESS IN TWO CITIES, IN TURKEY AND ENGLAND, MAHMUT SERKAN YAZICI

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From the Secret Garden to the Panopticon? Changing freedoms and the growing crisis in primary school headteacher recruitment., Paul Hodson

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Illusio in lesson observation: making policy work by playing the game, Sasha Pleasance

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Learning to become a subject: A hermeneutic phenomenological study of students in a Waldorf (Steiner) school in Germany, Martyn Rawson

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Lost in Translation? Non-STEM Academics in the 'Entrepreneurial' University, Derek Dodd

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Professional Pathways for Teacher Educators in Further Education practice: a framework to support professional learning., Susan Webster

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The Impact of Arts Education Programmes on Anti-Racist School Practice in the South West of England, Heather Knight

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The policy and practice of inclusion of children with specific learning difficulties in mainstream primary girls’ schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Exploring the attitudes and experiences of teachers, Amirah Alshenaifi

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The significance of the field of practice ‘Learning Development’ in UK higher education, John Hilsdon

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UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT ON THE WELLBEING OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIFIC LEARNING DIFFICULTIES THROUGH TEACHING INTERVENTIONS, Dylan K. Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF CHILDREN’S EXPERIENCES OF ROLE-PLAY IN TWO PACK-AWAY EARLY CHILDHOOD SETTINGS., Zenna Mary Kingdon

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How do Social Work Students Develop their Professional Identity?, Julia Wheeler

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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The Employment of Ex-Military As Teachers: The Military, Masculinity and Moral Regulation, Peter James Le Gassick

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Beliefs and Relationships during Children’s Transition to School: Parents, Practitioners and Teachers, Karen Wickett

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“Nobody's ever asked me what it's like”: The role of family networks in the transitions of injured soldiers engaging with higher education., Wendy Lambert-Heggs

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Mature Women and Higher Education: Reconstructing Identity and Family Relationships, Louise Webber

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Professional development and beyond: a participative study of a self-facilitated learning group, Helen Goodall

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Students' Experiences of Dance: a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, Goran Krantz

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THE IMPORTANCE OF HUMOUR IN EDUCATIONAL STAFFROOMS, Kmita Maria

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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DESIGNING, PILOTING AND EVALUATING AN ICT TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR NOVICE FEMALE PRIMARY TEACHERS IN SAUDI, ENSAF AL MULJIM

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DEVELOPING AN E-LEARNING TRAINING PACKAGE FOR ACADEMIC STAFF IN ONE UNIVERSITY IN SAUDI ARABIA, AHMED AL MULHEM

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Sustainability in Secondary Education in England: An Ethnographic Study, Ciaran Francis O'Sullivan

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Developing early algebraic reasoning in a mathematical community of inquiry, Jodie Margaret Roberta Hunter

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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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

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Wild Country Hall: Children’s learning at a residential outdoor education centre., Anthony Thomas Rea

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Navigating holostic and sustainable learning:Challenges and opportunities in ongoing and creeping emergencies, Fumiyo Kagawa

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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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

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RE-EXAMINING SCHOLARSHIP: EXPLORING THE MEANINGS OF BOYER'S DIMENSIONS TO THE PROFESSORIATE, JULIA CRAIG LAKER

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Does Collaboration Matter? A Paradigm for Practical Educational Research, David Philip White

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Interactive teaching in the National Numeracy Strategy: tensions in a supportive framework, Nick Pratt

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Understanding formative assessment in extended classroom curricular interaction, John Gulliver

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Bullying in a primary school : a case study, Christopher Graham Lee

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Process of change in teaching and learning in higher education : integrating information and communication technology, Susan Janet English

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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AN INVESTIGATION OF LOWER SECONDARY PUPILS' IMAGES OF MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICIANS, SUSAN HELEN PICKER

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Extending literacy : pupils' interactions with texts, with particular emphasis on the use of non-fiction texts, Maureen Lewis

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Nature and justifiability of the act of collective worship in schools, Jeanette Gill

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The influence of school staffs on primary PGCE trainee teachers' professional learning, Robin Michael Yeomans

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The relationship between teachers' understanding of the nature of science and their science practice : four case studies from an urban primary school., Stephen Laurence Waters-Adams

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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STORIES FROM THE LIFEWORLD OF PRIMARY PHYSICAL EDUCATION, SUSAN CLARE SHORMAN

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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Predicament of the new primary teacher : educating teachers as intellectuals in changing times, Roderick Mackenzie

Theses/Dissertations from 1995

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Examination of the role of the teacher in early reading, Rosalind Fisher

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The Learn to Travel Project: a case study of curriculum innovation in primary schools, Peter Mason

Theses/Dissertations from 1994

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SCHOOL BASED TRAINING: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF AN ARTICLED TEACHER COURSE AND A ONE YEAR PGCE, CAROLINE WHITING

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Teachers' involvement in decision-making: a case-study of a primary school at a time of rapid change, Denis Hayes

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THE DAY-TO-DAY WORK OF PRIMARY HEADTEACHERS: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY, ROGER JAMES REVELL

Theses/Dissertations from 1993

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WHAT IS THE NATURE AND PROCESS OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING?, Sylvia Margaret Warham