Papers by chris Carpenter
This paper is a response to the Carter report into Initial Teacher Education in the UK that was p... more This paper is a response to the Carter report into Initial Teacher Education in the UK that was published in February 2015
This short paper explores the notion of 'excelling' in education. It is argued that in order to u... more This short paper explores the notion of 'excelling' in education. It is argued that in order to understand notions of 'excelling' we need to locate it within the aims of the education where the learner is excelling.
This is a paper based on an idea I have had for a long time. It is very much 'work in progress'. ... more This is a paper based on an idea I have had for a long time. It is very much 'work in progress'. I am happy for it to be cited and more importantly would love to have any thoughts feedback in any form. [email protected]
Social Justice is a concept that has been central to the politics of contemporary democracies in ... more Social Justice is a concept that has been central to the politics of contemporary democracies in recent times (Miller 1999) and has been a prominent feature in the lexicon of all parties in recent times. It can be seen that while social justice has been something people are committed to in theory, many disagree about what should be done about social problems such an unemployment and equity of educational opportunity in practice.
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Interpreting Secondary PE Teachers Personal Theories of Learning, 2020
While it might seem axiomatic that teachers will hold sophisticated theories of learning there ha... more While it might seem axiomatic that teachers will hold sophisticated theories of learning there have been studies that have concluded that this is not necessarily the case (Athey, 1990, Marton and Booth, 1997, Carpenter, 2012). 4 PE teachers at a Non-Selective Secondary School in the South East of England were recruited as participants. As the central concern was how the teachers theorised learning this research took an interpretative phenomenological approach. Such a methodology aims to gain understandings of how people view and experience their world (Willig, 2001) and so can be seen to be epistemologically appropriate. There were three rounds of field work with each stage seeking to build on the previous one. This paper presents two of the headline findings of the research. First, that the participants held personal theories of learning that can be described as existing implicitly and explicitly although the differences should not be viewed as a binary; second, that the participating teachers' theories of learning could be interpreted as being inconsistent and at times even contradictory. 1
One of the principle themes of Conservative government policy (2015 to present time) in general a... more One of the principle themes of Conservative government policy (2015 to present time) in general and education policy in particular has been that of Social Justice. While
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