Kristine Black-Hawkins

Position/Status

University Lecturer in Inclusive Education

E-mail Address

kb10006@cam.ac.uk

Phone

(+44) 01223 767660

Qualifications

BA (Hons) English, University of Lancaster
PGCE, Cambridge Institute of Education
MA, Education, University of East Anglia
PhD, The Open University

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Profile

Kristine Black-Hawkins taught in schools and worked for local government before joining the Open University and then later the Faculty of Education. Her current teaching and research interests are in the area of inclusive and special education and, in particular, school cultures and how they might be developed in ways that raise the achievements of all learners whilst safeguarding the inclusion of those who are more vulnerable to processes of exclusion. She is currently researching the concept of inclusive pedagogy and teachers' craft knowledge of their inclusive classroom practices. An important aspect of this is the generation of innovative research approaches and tools to support the work.

She was a member of the research team that produced The Index for Inclusion (funded by the DfES to be distributed to all schools in England and Wales and subsequently translated for use in over twenty countries, including Brazil, Canada, India, Norway, Portugal, Rumania and South Africa). As part of this project she worked with educationalists and NGOs to produce support materials for use in different national settings (funded by UNESCO). Kristine has also been a member of the SUPER (Schools-University Partnership in Educational Research) project, based at the Faculty. This aims to develop ways in which members of schools and the university can work together as research partners. She continues to support this work as the project’s critical friend. She is on the editorial board of the Cambridge Journal of Education, and regularly reviews for journals, conferences, publishers and research bodies.

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Selected Publications

Black-Hawkins, K. and Florian, L. (in press) Teachers' craft knowledge of their inclusive practice, Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice

Florian, L. and Black-Hawkins, K. (2011) Exploring Inclusive Pedagogy, British Educational Research Journal, 37, 5, 813-828, available on-line

Black-Hawkins, K. (2010) The Framework for Participation: a research tool for exploring the relationship between achievement and inclusion in schools, International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 33: 1, 21-40 available on-line

Black Hawkins, K., Florian, L. and Rouse, M. (2007) Achievement and Inclusion in Schools, London: Routledge. (Winner of the 2008 NASEN/TES academic book of the year.) 

McLaughlin, C., Black-Hawkins, K. and McIntyre, D. (2007) Networking Practitioner Research. London, Routledge.

McLaughlin, C. and Black-Hawkins, K. (2007) Partnerships for Educational Knowledge Creation - Distinctions, Dilemmas and Challenges, The Curriculum Journal, Vol. 18, No 3, pp.327-341 available on-line

McLaughlin, C., Black-Hawkins, K., Brindley, S., McIntyre, D. and Taber, K. (2006) Researching Schools: Stories from a Partnership for Educational Research, London: Routledge Falmer.

Florian, L., Rouse, M., Black-Hawkins, K. and Jull, S. (2004) What can national data sets tell us about inclusion and pupil achievement? British Journal of Special Education, 31, 3, 115-121. available on-line

McLaughlin, C. and Black-Hawkins, K. (2004) A schools-university research partnership: understandings, models and complexities, Journal of In-service Education, 30, 2, 265. available on-line

Booth, T. and Black-Hawkins, K. (2001) Developing Learning and Participation in Countries of the South: The Role of an Index for Inclusion, Paris: UNESCO. 

Booth, T., Ainscow, M., Black-Hawkins, K., Vaughan, M. and Shaw, L. (2000) The Index for Inclusion: Developing Learning and Participation in Schools, Bristol: CSIE.