Jonathan Barnes

Canterbury Christ Church University · Department of Primary Education

A prreliminary report on a scoping visit for an arts and integration project in schools in a refugee settlement in Uganda.

The Burundi American International Academy is an independent school in central Africa. It was established eight years ago expressly to generate potential leaders motivated to build peace, humanity and economic development in an impoverished country beset by political, ethnic, environmental and development challenges. The purpose of this research is...

Teaching Assistants have become an essential part of primary school life over the last 30 years. They represent around one third of the overall school workforce, a higher percentage in primary school and nurseries. Despite training and qualification opportunities, most are relatively poorly paid, often untrained, and high percentages admit to reluc...

This article summarises the impacts of a spontaneous arts initiative involving the residents of eight London streets during the 2020 lockdowns. A local arts organization devised small-scale, informal street music projects that were evaluated by the residents themselves. Responses suggested that such events had a strong positive impact on the feelin...

a guide written to support teachers and schools educating migrant young people. We highlight the major issues of language and culture faced by all migrants as they seek to settle in another country. The resource is based around ten tables of questions and statements designed to stimulate debate and dialogue amongst teachers and other leaders in sta...

The attached book is the introductory guide to a set of teaching resources intended for migrant education in the UK. The pack includes lesson starters, lesson plans, followup ideas and photographic and map resources all related to the wider issue of migrants and migration. This introductory book offers short summaries related to the education and c...

An evaluation of a Belfast club designed as a reliable and safe shared space for a 'wide range of individuals from diverse backgrounds to socialise and build strong positive relationships'. The research uses an original bricolage of methods and establishes that the club's aims and claims are achieved and justified. The research illustrates how the...

This chapter will: • demonstrate the links between creative thinking and cross-curricular activity • draw attention to different approaches to cross-curricular teaching and learning • establish a range of methods through which cross-curricular activity can be used to raise standards in children's subject learning

Creativity can be strongly linked with the psychological and social well-being of children in their early years. Play, perhaps the archetype of creativity and often argued to be central to healthy personal development, always exists within a set of values. Inclusive values that honour each child’s identity, foster their good relationships and balan...

An evaluation of the Speech Bubbles programme running in 18 London primary schools and schools in north west England. This year long programme lead by experienced theatre practitioners is designed to support the development of children 6-7 with significant speech, language and communication difficulties. The evaluation employs mixed qualitative and...

This paper is about what makes for resilience within a challenging profession. A teacher who has remained idealistic and positive throughout 42 years in education examines the psychological and practical sources of his personal positivity. The complex and bespoke methodology invented to answer the question, ‘What sustains a fulfilling life in educa...

A report into the impact of a highly innovative arts input in Haringey Early Years Contexts funded by Youth Music. It showed that the outcomes of composing singing and recording bespoke lullabies to very young children (2 and 3) had powerful effects on their confidence, language development, integration and the integration of their primary carers

Resilience is essential to the good teacher. This paper summarises research on factors that have sustained one life in education, and compares them with narratives from nine other long-serving and fulfilled teachers. It identifies some elements that build teacher resilience, and discusses how this knowledge might apply to teacher education and the...

Resilience is essential to the good teacher. This paper summarises research on factors that have sustained a single life in education, comparing them with narratives from nine other long-serving and fulfilled teachers. It seeks to identify elements that build personal resilience, how this knowledge might be applied to teacher education and what thi...

Aims: This paper focuses on an innovative intersection between education, health and arts. Taking a broad definition of health it examines some social and psychological well-being impacts of extended collaborations between a theatre company and children with communication difficulties. It seeks to test aspects of Fredrickson's(1) broaden-and-build...

The role of the emotions in learning has long been acknowledged but is often overlooked. This article considers the impact one particular emotion, happiness, has on learning and the school curriculum. Recent reports have drawn attention to the importance of happiness (or the lack of it) by highlighting concerns about childhood well-being. At the sa...

This report summarizes GENERATE, a pilot research project conducted by 12 artists and their children 3—14. Simply put, these artist/art educator/parents allowed their own children unlimited access to their studios, materials, equipment and workspaces for two years. During that time the children were able to work alongside their parents on making co...

This paper documents the impact of a study visit to south India in 2007 on students following courses in initial teacher education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. The research was conducted by the two course leaders and employed a varied methodology, involving open‐ended questionnaires, self‐reporting of emotions, video diaries, informa...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in creativity in education. The publication of All Our Futures (DfEE, 1999) laid the foundations for a more expansive and outward looking ideas about the nature of education. More recent government statements such as Excellence and Enjoyment (DfES 2003) and Every Child Matters (DfES, 2004) have enco...

This article is a summary of a cross-Arts, action research project in primary teacher education. The Higher Education ARTS and Schools (HEARTS) project aimed at attitude and pedagogical change amongst teacher education students. The researchers chose to explore the effects and effectiveness of the Arts in making meaning and relevance for both child...

Purpose Current research in both cognitive neuroscience and what has been called “positive psychology” point to the need for wholesale reappraisal of what happens in schools, especially with regard to the wellbeing of children. Seeks to examine this issue. Design/methodology/approach Reviews and discussion of research by the World Health Organizat...

In the light of the government's Excellence and Enjoyment primary strategy, the current emphasis on well-being arising from Every Child Matters and recent moves by the QCA, Creative Partnerships and OFSTED to promote creative thinking, and cross-curricular and thematic approaches in Key Stages 1, 2 and 3, teacher education is looking again at child...

Despite government rhetoric, higher education lecturers and schoolteachers in the UK remain under pressure to focus on standards and measurement in the core curriculum at the relative expense of a wider and more creative education. This article argues that the balance needs redressing and explores the nature of creative teaching in the context of i...

In July and August 2003, five top UK universities offered a range of three-week summer schools to ‘gifted and talented’ 11–16-year-olds. This initiative, heavily subsidized by the UK Government, who wish to push ‘the cream of the nation’s pupils forward’, used school holiday time to bring together nominated children from all parts of the country. P...

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