Jane Davies
BEd; MA (Education)
Senior Lecturer
Location:
David Goldman Building, St Peter's Campus
Phone: 0191 515 2367 / 3192 / 2395 / 2201
Email:
jane.davies@sunderland.ac.uk
Biography
I am a senior lecturer and researcher at the University of Sunderland, Faculty of Education and Society. I am currently researching initial teacher education providers' responses to diversity issues, and 'race' and racism in particular. I have worked as a researcher on a range of ESRC - funded projects in Sunderland, and previously at the Institute of Education in London. I have most recently been involved in a Comenius-funded project examining the educational experiences of Roma pupils and their families. I have over 15 years experience as a primary class teacher and have worked as an advisory teacher for pupils with EAL.
Teaching Areas
BA Primary Education; Primary PGCE; Input relating to equality and diversity on a range of ITE Programmes.
Research Interests
I am interested in researching issues related to social justice, particularly 'race' equality. I am also interested in researching ITE pedagogy, and the ways in which pupils are grouped within primary schools
Selected Publications
Hallam, S, Ireson, J, and Davies, J. (2002) Effective Pupil Grouping in the Primary School London David Fulton Publishers.
Davies, J, Hallam, S, Ireson, J. (2003) Ability groupings in the primary school: issues arising from practice Research Papers in Education 18 (1) pp 45-60
Hallam, S, Ireson, J, Lister, V, Choudhury, I, Davies, J. (2003) Ability Grouping Practices in the Primary School: a survey Educational Studies Vol 29 No 1 pp 69-83
Hallam, S, Ireson, J, and Davies, J. (2004) Grouping Practices in the primary school: what influences change? British Educational Research Journal 30, No 1 pp117-140
Hallam, S, Ireson, J and Davies, J (2004) Primary pupils: experiences of different types of groupings in school British Educational Research Journal 30, No 4 pp 515-533
Crozier, G. Davies, J. Khatun, S. and Booth, D. (2004) School, Family and Community Relationships: the impact of tradition, culture and values on home-school relationships, with reference to families of Bangladeshi origin in the North East of England. Education@leeds.ac.uk This is also on project website http://my.sunderland.ac.uk/web/projects/apsse/ahome
Crozier,G. & Davies, J. (2005) British Bangladeshi and Pakistani Families and Education Involvement: barriers and possibilities. The Harvard Family Research Project's National Outreach through the Family Involvement Network, Research Digest (May) www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projectsfine/resources/digest/race.html
Crozier, G. & Davies, J. (2006) Family matters: a discussion of the Bangladeshi and Pakistani extended family and community in supporting the children's education The Sociological Review, 54:4 p678-695
Davies, J. & Crozier, G. (2006) Diversity and Teacher Education: Research into Training Provision in England: End of Project Report. Available online on the Multiverse website: http://www.multiverse.ac.uk/attachments/80812ad2-6f70-4470-b632-f65c10a70b3b.doc
Davies, J. & Crozier, G. (2006) Tackling Diversity in ITE: Unpacking the Issues Race Equality Teaching Vol 24 no 3 p18-21
Crozier, G. & Davies, J. (2007) Hard to Reach Parents or Hard to Reach Schools? A discussion of home-school relations, with particular reference to Bangladeshi and Pakistani parents. British Educational Research Journal Vol:33:3
Crozier, G.& Davies, J. (2008) "The Trouble is They Don't Mix": Self-segregation or enforced exclusion? Teachers' Constructions of South Asian Students. Race, Ethnicity and Education 11:3, 285-301
Crozier,G. Davies,J. Szymanski,K. (2009) Education, identity and Roma families: teachers' perspectives and engagement with INSETRom training.Intercultural Education. Vol. 20, No. 6, December 2009, 537-548
I was a member of the management committee, and 'Race' and Ethnicity strand leader for the TDA-funded website, Multiverse from 2007-2010
