Cheryl Reynolds

University of Huddersfield · School of Education and Professional Development

To address social justice in higher education (HE) is a matter of public and ethical responsibility;it can enhance social, cultural and economic opportunities, so disparities in outcomes are reduced.The underachievement in HE of specific social groups has concerned the sector for many years (Mountford-Zimdars et al., 2015).This paper focuses on an...

Based on a recent narrative inquiry into the social media-based learning of masters level students preparing to teach across a range of professional and vocational areas, Reynolds argues that social-media based learning confers a distinctly postmodern character to the learning experience. Paranoia, fragmentation, intertextuality, metafiction, maxim...

In the UK, students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds and from black and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds achieve less well in terms of retention, degree classifications and employment outcomes, than do more privileged students (HEFCE 2013, 2014, 2015a, 2015b). Students from BAME backgrounds report dissatisfaction with teaching, curriculum...

The chapter sets the discussion within the broader socio-economic context in which further education teachers’ labour, one characterized by underemployment and over-qualification, precariousness and the prevalence of ‘rotten jobs’. In this context, educational workers are subject to high levels of surveillance rooted in regimes of performativity an...

The delivery of theory alongside practice in teacher education is inherently challenging and prone to failure, leaving trainees ill-prepared to problematise the social and cultural realities that shape their classrooms. Finding new and productive ways for trainees to engage with theoretical concepts is, therefore, an important educational and socia...

Policymakers in Europe have devoted considerable resources and attention to low achievers in education, especially those who are or who are at risk of becoming NEET (not in education, employment or training) (Tomlinson 2013:102). At the other end of the spectrum British and American governments, amonst others, have also focused on high educational...

Austerity measures and increased tuition fees place heightened pressures on universities to provide sustainable, cost effective, high quality provision. This paper analyses how a team of staff in a School of Education at a UK University are leading collaborative work with partner colleges, to deliver a model that ameliorates the financial pressures...