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Dr Claire Pescott

@pesky1975

β€’ Lecturer β€’ USW πŸ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώβ€’ β€’ PGCE Primary Course Leader β€’ β€’ Academic β€’ Writer β€’ Research interests πŸ€“ β€’β€’β€’ β€’ Childhood, Identity & Social Media, CfW and Pedagogy, Creative Methodologies β€’ β€’ All opinions are my own πŸ¦©β€’

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Being and becoming in children’s digital spaces: A portal into their social media use - Claire Kathryn Pescott, 2025 This qualitative study employed the theoretical lens of the social and cultural concept of childhood, exploring the notion of being and becoming in relation to ...

Pleased to share my latest publication exploring being and becoming in children’s digital spaces. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

07.11.2025 07:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Focus on Practice collection provides short, academically rigorous articles that can inform educational practice, with ideas from Wales and around the world.

We encourage contributions from practitioners and researchers at all stages of their career.

Articles: journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/issue/25...

06.03.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#collaging #creativemethods

30.01.2025 20:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The unspoken power of collage? Using an innovative arts-based research method to explore the experience of struggling as a teacher This article reports on the methodological approach taken in a doctoral study that explores what it means to be struggling as a teacher. Participants were established and experienced teachers and lead...

journals.uclpress.co.uk/lre/article/...

30.01.2025 20:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our USW Education 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 academic reading group launched this evening. Culshaw’s (2019) paper exploring β€œstruggling” teachers perceptions through collaging was discussed. Interesting debate around insider/outsider positionality, the difficulty of defining β€œstruggling”and visual/verbal data analysis πŸ§πŸ€“.

30.01.2025 20:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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January skyscape πŸ§‘πŸ’œ

28.01.2025 18:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Event Details | Postgraduate Open Evening - University of South WalesSubmit

Interested in studying the MA SEN/ALN (Autism) course that I lead? Join us on the 5th Feb to find out more.

www.southwales.ac.uk/events/event...

26.01.2025 22:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“ NEW BERA BLOG SPECIAL ISSUE

Revisiting the Children’s Plan: Towards a new manifesto for tackling early years inequality
Guest edited by Claudine Bowyer-Crane

Read special issue here: bera.ac.uk/blog-special...

24.01.2025 11:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All universities need to follow suit.

24.01.2025 07:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks a great read…need to add this to my list πŸ“•

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Couldn’t agree more!

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Very proud day πŸŽ“πŸ™ŒπŸ» my first cohort of PGCE students graduated today 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. πŸ“Έof a few I managed to catch and moi with the mace!

23.01.2025 21:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Wales Journal of Education | Issue: Issue: 2(26) Twenty-Five Years of Devolved Education in Wales: A Review (2024) Janeway-Logo-Final

Pleased to contribute to special issue of WJE on 25 yrs of devolved education in Wales journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/issue/41... @profgaryb.bsky.social @andrewjamdavies.bsky.social @proftomcrick.com

04.12.2024 07:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Teenage girls are feeling vulnerable’: fears grow over online beauty filters Studies suggest children are having their self-esteem harmed by filters that ape the effects of cosmetic surgery

I was interviewed for the guardian yesterday. Internet safety in schools needs to move beyond the rhetoric of Stranger Danger.

www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

29.11.2024 16:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm hunting down every last one of you lovely ITE / ITT folk. I'm mainly relying on people's bios to determine who might want to be included here, so if I've missed you, let me know and I will update this list.

Reposts appreciated πŸ‘

go.bsky.app/FZXkStn

18.11.2024 13:10 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 3