Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education
Focus
PLACE has a wide range of expertise in a diverse yet overlapping set of disciplines within or aligned to education. This includes research and teaching related to modern (and second) language learning; literacy with particular reference to the primary school and early years education; literary studies including children's literature; arts education with a focus on music, art, drama and creativity; geography, history, English, classics and religious studies in primary and secondary education.
In their teaching and research, members of the group are concerned, to varying degrees, with epistemological, socio-cultural and philosophical aspects of these subjects as well as their bearing on pedagogical issues. Our membership has a strong commitment to the development of secondary and primary learning and teaching. Distinguished researchers into critical and comparative pedagogy in the primary school include the Director, Robin Alexander, and Associate Director of the influential Primary Review (2008) www.primaryreview.org.uk