Rosemary Deaney

Position/Status

Senior Research and Teaching Associate

E-mail Address

rld29@cam.ac.uk

Phone

01223 767658

Qualifications

BSc, PGCE (PCET), MA (Ed)

Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations

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Profile

Rosemary Deaney has a background in teaching across a wide range of educational settings. Her current research focuses on teachers' early professional learning. She is working with Elaine Wilson investigating teacher identity and agency with particular emphasis on career changers during the transition through initial teacher preparation and into their first teaching posts.

A substantial part of her previous work centred around the use of information and communication technology (ICT) and supporting subject teachers developing their pedagogical use of these tools. She has been involved in several funded projects in this area, including the T-MEDIA video case-study project. This collaborative study with colleague Sara Hennessy and teacher practitioners in science, mathematics, English and history led to the production of a series of five interactive CD-ROMs designed to support teacher professional development.

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Course Involvement

Rosemary is Coordinator of the Research Methods strand of the Faculty's thematic MPhil courses. She teaches on this programme and also supervises teachers who are researching their own practice through degree study at masters level.  

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Research Topics

Current Research Projects

Investigating experiences of Science teachers during their early career years, Gatsby funded project with Elaine Wilson.

Previous Research Projects

Teacher mediation of subject learning with ICT: A multimedia approach (T-MEDIA). (ESRC, 2005-2007). With Sara Hennessy.

Eliciting situated expertise in ICT-integrated mathematics and science teaching (SET-IT). (ESRC, 2002-2004). With Kenneth Ruthven and Sara Hennessy.

Sustainability and Evolution of ICT-supported Classroom Practice. British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), 2003-2004). With Sara Hennessy.

Developing warranted practice in using information and communication technologies to support subject teaching and learning in the secondary school (Wallenberg Research Centre for Educational Improvement, 1999-2002). With Kenneth Ruthven and Sara Hennessy.

Evaluation of the Newton Trust Bursary Scheme. With Donald McIntyre, Joan M. Whitehead and John Raffan.

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Publications

Deaney, R. and Hennessy, S. (2011)
"A case study of using multiple resources to teach straight line graphs." In A. Oldknow & C. Knights (Eds.), Mathematics Education with Digital Technology. Continuum International.

Fox, A., Wilson, E. and Deaney, R. (2011)
Beginning teachers' workplace experiences: Perceptions of and use of support. Vocations and Learning, 4(1) 1-24.  Available online at: http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s12186-010-9046-1

Wilson, E. and Deaney, R. (2010)
Changing career and changing identity: How do teacher career changers exercise agency in identity construction?  Social Psychology of Education, 13(2) 169-183.

Fox, A., Deaney, R. and Wilson, E. (2010)
Examining beginning teachers' perceptions of workplace support. Journal of Workplace Learning, 22(4) 212-227.

Hennessy, S., and Deaney, R. with Tooley, C. (2010)
Using the interactive whiteboard to stimulate active learning in school science. In M.Thomas and E. Cutrim-Schmid (Eds.), Interactive Whiteboards: Theory, Research and Practice. Hershey, PA: IGI-Global.

Deaney, R., Chapman A. and Hennessy, S. (2009)
A case study of one teacher's use of an interactive whiteboard system to support knowledge co-construction in the history classroom. Curriculum Journal, 20(4) 365-387.

Hennessy, S. and Deaney, R. (2009)
The impact of collaborative video analysis by practitioners and researchers upon pedagogical thinking and practice: A follow-up study. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 15(5), 617-638.

Hennessy, S. and Deaney, R. (2009)
'Intermediate theory' building: Integrating multiple teacher and researcher perspectives through in-depth video analysis of pedagogic strategies. Teachers College Record, 111(7), 1753-1795.

Bowker, A., Hennessy, S., Dawes, M. and Deaney, R. (2009)
Supporting professional development for ICT use in mathematics using the T-MEDIA multimedia resource. In Joubert, M. (Ed.) Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 29(1), 19-24.

Ruthven, K., Deaney, R. and Hennessy, S. (2009)
Using graphing software to teach about algebraic forms: A study of technology-supported practice in secondary-school mathematics. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 71(3), 279-297.

Ruthven, K., Hennessy, S. and Deaney, R. (2008)
Constructions of dynamic geometry: A study of the interpretative flexibility of educational software in classroom practice. Computers and Education, 51 (1), 297-317. Available online at: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2007.05.013

Hennessy, S., Deaney, R., Dawes, M. and Bowker, A. (March 2008)
Supporting professional development for ICT use in the secondary classroom using a multimedia resource: A Report to NCETM.

Hennessy, S., Deaney, R., Ruthven, K. and Winterbottom, M. (2007)
Pedagogical Strategies for Using the Interactive Whiteboard to foster learner participation in school science. Learning Media and Technology, 32 (3), 283-301.

Deaney, R. and Hennessy, S. (2007)
Sustainability, Evolution and Dissemination of ICT-Supported Classroom Practice. Research Papers in Education, 22 (1) 65-94.

Hennessy, S., Wishart, J., Whitelock, D., Deaney, R., Brawn, R., la Velle, L., McFarlane, A., Ruthven, K. and Winterbottom, M. (2007)
Pedagogical approaches for technology-Integrated science teaching. Computers and Education, 48 (1) 137-152. Available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2006.02.004

Deaney, R., Hennessy, S. and Ruthven, K. (2006)
Teachers' strategies for making effective use of datalogging in secondary science lessons.
School Science Review, 88 (323) 103-110.

Hennessy, S., Deaney, R. and Ruthven, K. (2006).
Situated expertise in integrating use of multimedia simulation into secondary science teaching International Journal of Science Education, 28 (7) 701-732.

Deaney, R., Ruthven K. and Hennessy, S. (2006)
Teachers' developing 'practical theories' of the contribution of information and communication technologies to supporting subject teaching and learning: an analysis of cases from English secondary schools
British Educational Research Journal, 32 (3) 459-480.

Whitehead, J.M, Raffan, J. and Deaney, R (2006)
University Choice: what influences the decisions of academically successful post-16 students? Higher Education Quarterly, 60 (1), 4-26.

Hennessy, S., Deaney. R. and Ruthven, K. (2005)
Emerging teacher strategies for mediating technology-integrated instructional conversations: a sociocultural perspective. The Curriculum Journal, 16 (3), 265-292.

Ruthven K., Hennessy, S. and Deaney, R. (2005)
Incorporating Internet resources into classroom practice: pedagogical perspectives and strategies of secondary-school subject teachers. Computers and Education 44 (1), 1-34.
Available online at:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03601315

Deaney, R., Ruthven, K. and Hennessy, S. (2003)
Pupil perspectives on the contribution of ICT to teaching and learning in the secondary school. Research Papers in Education, 18 (2), 141-165.
Available online at:
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=n6jmtgqnyc92qerf