Ms Jenny Carey
Senior Teaching Fellow
Strathclyde Institute of Education
Personal statement
Jenny Carey is a core member of the Early Years and Literacy Team at Strathclyde.
She works with Early Years Professionals and Teachers to develop early years and/or literacy pedagogy to support and enhance practice.
Jenny is the Course Director for Masters in Education, Early Years Pedagogue course(EYP), and was successfully awarded Scottish Government funding to support aspects of workforce development in and across the Early Years (https://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/postgraduatetaught/earlyyearspedagogue/).
Over the last three years she has worked to evaluate aspects of EYP M.Ed. student’s learning and its links to changes in practice in the early years. She has also led on a range of Early Years graduate knowledge exchange activities.
Jenny leads on a range of undergraduate and masters modules related to Early Years curriculum and pedagogy and enjoys her role as Early Years Scotland Book Reviewer.
Her work in literacy has focussed on the development of teacher’s understandings. She has worked across local authorities to explore ways in which collaborative work, through the Strathclyde Literacy Clinic approach, supports teacher agency and responsiveness and knowledge in literacy learning and teaching (reading and writing).
Her PhD studies is examining aspects of identity, agency and professional knowledge for preservice and early career literacy teachers.
Jenny leads on the undergraduate Strathclyde Literacy and Numeracy Clinic as well as undergraduate literacy modules.
During her time at Strathclyde, she has worked on a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including the BACP, BA in Primary Education, PGDE Primary and the M.Ed. Programme. She contributes to Learning & Teaching for GTC registered teachers, Early Years Workforce Development and Literacy Learning and Teaching.
Before joining the University Jenny had experience teaching in both England and Scotland. During her time in management of schools she had responsibility for monitoring literacy development and attainment across the Early Years and Primary alongside a focus for learning and teaching in the early years.
Publications
- Podcast #30 : Meet a team - Early Years
- Shaw Nicky, Carey Jenny, Arnott Lorna
- (2022)
- Realising the Ambition - Being Me : National Practice Guidance for Early Years in Scotland
- Crichton Vicky, Carwood-Edwards Jean, Ryan Janine, McTaggart James, Collins Janice, MacConnell Mary Pat, Wallace Lesley, Diamond Catherine, Grogan Deirdre, Carey Jenny, MacAulay Liz, Shaw Nicky, Gill Catriona, Johnston Kathleen
- (2020)
- Teacher noticing in language and literacy landscapes of practice
- Ellis Sue, Rowe Adele, Carey Jenny, Smith Vivienne
- Developing Habits of Noticing in Literacy and Language Classrooms Research and practice Across Professional Cultures (2020) (2020)
- Generating data, generating knowledge : professional development in the Strathclyde literacy clinic
- Ellis Susan, Thomson Jane, Carey Jenny
- Improving Reading and Reading Engagement in the 21st Century International Research and Innovations (2017) (2017)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4331-4
- An Evaluation of The Early Years Pedagogue Masters (Phase 1)
- Carey Jenny, Karagiannidou Eleni
- (2016)
- Families at the margins : mechanisms of inequality and early transition strategies to promote positive change and inclusion
- Marwick Helen, Dunlop Aline-Wendy, Carey Jenny, Martlew Joan
- European Early Childhood Educational Research Association Conference, Crete, Greece, Sept 2014 (2014)
Professional Activities
- Strathclyde Student Education Research Journal (Journal)
- Associate Editor
- 2026
- Stories from Strathclyde: Celebrating our work with children and young people
- Participant
- 15/5/2025
- 'Equality, Play, Wellbeing…What’s in your Backpack?'
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 8/11/2024
- Strathwrites - funded by Strathclyde Jubilee Fund (£850)
- Organiser
- 13/3/2024
- Scottish Government: Early Learning & Childcare (External organisation)
- Member
- 14/4/2016
- Early Years Scotland Book Reviewer
- Consultant
- 1/1/2014
Projects
- Storying Professional Learning: Teachers writing their way into writing pedagogy.
- Blake, Allan (Principal Investigator) Carey, Jenny (Principal Investigator) Aitchison, Kirsty (Principal Investigator)
- The purpose of this research project is to explore how primary school teachers develop their writing pedagogy through taking part in creative writing with professional authors. The study takes place within the context of a professional learning programme led by the Scottish Book Trust, which provides teachers with opportunities to collaborate with authors of children's literature, with a view to making creative writing more meaningful for teachers and for the children they teach. Knowing that literacy is a key factor in children’s life chances, and with creative writing viewed as an act of subjectification through which individuals might be permitted to impose their definition of the world on the world, the value of the project is in revealing how teachers’ accounts of collaborating with authors during the process of creative writing might be interpreted thoughtfully enough to become a model of transformative pedagogical practice.
- 01-Jan-2026 - 01-Jan-2027
- Playful Literacy: Leading Pedagogy and Practice
- Carey, Jenny (Project Lead) Aitchison, Kirsty (Project Lead)
- 27-Jan-2025 - 19-Jan-2025
- Exploring Teacher Agency
- Carey, Jenny (Project Lead) Aitchison, Kirsty (Project Lead)
- 13-Jan-2024 - 20-Jan-2024
- Provision of Masters level qualifications in Early Years Pedagogy Apr 19 - Mar 20
- Carey, Jenny (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2023
- ELC Expansion Early Years Professional Learning
- Carey, Jenny (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2020
- Cluster 10: Developing an Equitable Literacy Curriculum
- Ellis, Susan (Principal Investigator) Carey, Jenny (Co-investigator)
- 07-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2018
Contact
Ms
Jenny
Carey
Senior Teaching Fellow
Strathclyde Institute of Education
Email: jenny.carey@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8035