Research Interests
Research supervision is available in a number of areas, including childhood studies, rural education and pedagogic research.
Some of the research themes within the Department include:
- Pedagogic research including:
- learning and teaching
- subject knowledge and understanding
- ICT assessment
- assessment for learning
- achievement
- bilingual context
- Childhood Studies including:
- how children learn; gender studies
- achievement
- health and wellbeing studies
- healthy schools
- curriculum development in Wales and elsewhere in the UK
- special educational needs
- Rural Education including:
- partnerships in education;
- community education
- National and local educational policy and the impact on small schools
- 14-19 Learning Pathway
- adult education