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Dr Sarah Thomson

Title: Teaching Fellow
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Location: Chancellor's Building : To be confirmed
Role: Part-time Tutor
Contacting me: Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4 and anytime by email
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Sarah Thomson graduated from Keele University with a First Class degree in English and Educational Studies. Her PhD (2003) focused on aspects of surveillance, litigation and risk and its impact on primary education and playtime practices.  Current research interests focus on the policy and practice of early years education and the introduction of the Foundation Stage. Other interests include the role of the school in children’s health. She is currently a Teaching Fellow in the School of PP+PP (Education).

  • Early Years Professional Status: The Gold Standard of Effective Practice?
  • The school as a health-care centre: its role in maintaining a healthy population
  • The use of play in school – pedagogical and recreational
  • How aspects of litigation, surveillance and accountability impact on educational practices
  • Thomson, S.J. (2007) Do’s and Don’ts: children’s experiences of the primary school playground, Environmental Education Research: Special issue: Vol. 13, No.4.  
  • Thomson, S.J. (2007) ‘Play in Schools?’ Playwords, Common Threads Publications Ltd. Issue 30.
  • Thomson, S. J. (2005) ‘The geography of the school playground’ Mapping News: Mapping for Education, Ordnance Survey, Issue 29, pp 31-32  
  • Thomson, S.J. (2005) ‘A well equipped hamster cage’ Primary Teaching Assistants: Curriculum in Context, Cable, C. and Eyres, I. (ed) O.U. Press and David Fulton, pp 96-103  
  • Thomson, S.J. (2005) ‘“Territorialising” the Primary School Playground: Deconstructing the Geography of Playtime’ Children's Geographies, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp 63-78.
  • Thomson, S.J. (2004) ‘Just another Classroom: Observations of primary school playgrounds’ Sites of Sport: Space, Place and Experience, Bale, J. and Vertinsky P. (ed) London, Frank Cass. pp 73-84
  • Thomson, S.J (2003) ‘A Well-Equipped Hamster Cage: The rationalisation of primary school playtime’ Education 3-13, Vol. 31, No 2, pp 54-59
  • Thomson, S.J (2002)‘Harmless Fun Can Kill Someone’ Entertainment Law, Vol 1, No 1, pp 95-103
  • Thomson, S.J  (2001)‘Equality Issues for the New Millennium’, Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning: The Journal of The Institute for Access Studies and the European Access Network, Vol. 3, No 1, pp 43-45

Undergraduate

  • Edu-20023 Play, Power and Pedagogy (Module Leader)