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“Who knew that teaching required so much time?”: Surfacing student voice through portraiture and poetry. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Earnshaw, H. (2024, November). “Who knew that teaching required so much time?”: Surfacing student voice through portraiture and poetry. Paper presented at Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA) Annual Conference, Dundee, UK

“Becoming” a teacher is a complex, multi-faceted process. Student teachers at the start of their 1-year post-graduate initial teacher education (ITE) qualification often hold idealistic and perhaps simplistic views of what being a teacher entails. Pa... Read More about “Who knew that teaching required so much time?”: Surfacing student voice through portraiture and poetry..

Surviving and thriving: pre-service science teachers navigating the transition from STEM to Education (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jones, N., & Earnshaw, H. (2024, November). Surviving and thriving: pre-service science teachers navigating the transition from STEM to Education. Paper presented at The Scottish Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Dundee, UK

The supply of new physics teachers into the Scottish education system is in an increasingly fragile state. Longstanding recruitment and retention issues have become exacerbated in recent years. This research explored the experiences of pre-service ph... Read More about Surviving and thriving: pre-service science teachers navigating the transition from STEM to Education.

Teacher educators moving from ‘not racist’ towards antiracist (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Earnshaw, H. (2024, May). Teacher educators moving from ‘not racist’ towards antiracist. Paper presented at Teacher Educator Advancement Network (TEAN) conference, Manchester

As a team of educators, we wanted to move in a real and meaningful way from ‘not racist’ towards ‘antiracist’. One of us had been tasked with developing our institutional action plan following the publication of the National Anti-racism Framework for... Read More about Teacher educators moving from ‘not racist’ towards antiracist.

What poetry told us about student teachers’ inner world (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine
Earnshaw, H., & Thom, J. (2023). What poetry told us about student teachers’ inner world

When student teachers were asked to use poetry to reflect on the end of their course, it showed the ‘rollercoaster of emotions’ they go on.

We should stop advising students to choose subjects they’re good at (2017)
Digital Artefact
Earnshaw, H. (2017). We should stop advising students to choose subjects they’re good at. [Blog post]. IOP Blog

We should stop advising young people to do what they’re good at when they are making subject choices at school.
It sounds like such sensible, non-controversial advice, doesn’t it? What could possibly be wrong? Plenty.