
Professor Kate Wall
Education
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Practitioner enquiry : embedding research in practice Wall Kate (2023) Practitioner enquiry : exploring method for understanding teacher learning Wall Kate, Hall Elaine Innovation in Teacher Professional Learning in Europe Research, Policy and Practice (2023) (2023) Building a spider's web : an exploration of practices for rights-based education through promoting voice in the early years Robinson Carol, Wall Kate, Murray Jane, Evans Erica, Grogan Deirdre, Bowes Charlotte Voice and Agency Researching with Young Children (2023) (2023) What can creative data analysis using word clouds tell us about student views of learning something new? Gascoine Louise, Wall Kate, Higgins Steve Handbook of Creative Data Analysis (2023) (2023) Podcast #32: : Mini-lecture Kate Wall on 'Exploring the method of practitioner inquiry for understanding teacher professional learning' Wall Kate (2022) Theorising power and listening : the route to a culture of voice Arnott Lorna, Wall Kate The Theory and Practice of Voice in Early Childhood An International Exploration (2022) (2022)
Publications
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Applied Educational Research Conference Participant 15/4/2023 The Theory and Practice of Voice in Early Childhood Interviewee 13/1/2023 Maynooth University Visiting researcher 1/1/2021 The power of arts-based research methods in early years Blogger 10/2/2020 Look who’s talking: Dilemmas of practice when eliciting the voices of young children Speaker 9/4/2019 Scrutinising Creative Approaches: Ethical considerations in research with children Speaker 12/9/2018
Safe to Be Me - Evaluation Mevawalla, Zinnia (Principal Investigator) Taylor, Yvette (Co-investigator) Wall, Kate (Co-investigator) Molyneaux, Kate (Researcher) 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023 Practitioner enquiry support in East Renfrewshire (Woodfarm and Cross Arthurlie) Wall, Kate (Principal Investigator) Beck, Anna (Academic) Firth, Jonathan William (Academic) Moore, Iain (Academic) Tailored practitioner enquiry support to develop whole school approaches 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2021 Socially Innovative Interventions to Foster and to Advance Young Children’s Inclusion and Agency in Society through Voice and Story Beaton, Mhairi (Principal Investigator) Wall, Kate (Visiting Academic) Arnott, Lorna (Visiting Academic) Cassidy, Claire (Visiting Academic) The AdVoSt -project will take into practice the theoretical guiding principles for facilitating and enhancing young children’s voice in specific contexts (Wall et al., 2017). This will be done in close cooperation with practitioners working with indigenous children in Finland, marginalized, indigenous, and immigrant children in Canada, and children with diverse ethnical and cultural backgrounds in the UK. Previous literature indicates that young children are often viewed as ‘becomings’ rather than ‘beings’ within their communities. This is especially the case with children from non-mainstream communities, where ‘becoming’ might also mean to become a mainstream citizen, meaning simultaneously compromising identity, culture and language (e.g. von Benzon & van Blerk 2017; Sköld & Vehkalahti 2016).
The AdVoSt-project will enhance educators' knowledge of multiple storytelling pedagogies including perspectives of land-based learning. The research-based development of composing narratives with young learners through art, writing, photography, performance and digital representations privilege young children’s voice enabling their full citizenship. These research-based initiatives will contribute to the development of child centred learning that is focused in land-based pedagogy and play. Play helps children to gain positive learning experiences (Tang & Adams 2010). Children’s varied play engagements often use culturally relevant toys and ephemera which help them to narrate their stories and facilitate hearing the voices of young children. However, educators, administration, local communities and parents do not always know how to promote such play to enhance children’s literacy engagements. Additionally, the digital delivery of early childhood education with distance management sets diverse challenges for educational activities.
The AdVoSt-project recognizes the challenges concerning minority and indigenous children and will facilitate knowledge sharing between the participating countries and beyond. Using a community-based qualitative, comparative case study approach, the project will ensure that local cultural contexts play a key role in all research activities.
01-Jan-2020 Practitioner enquiry support in East Renfrewshire (Woodford Lodge School) Wall, Kate (Principal Investigator) Beck, Anna (Academic) Firth, Jonathan William (Academic) Moore, Iain (Academic) Jones, Lynne (Researcher) A sustained engagement to develop a whole school approach to practitioner enquiry. 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2020