SIG Meet & Discuss: Alternative Education
We warmly invite members of the BERA Alternative Education SIG—and anyone with an interest in alternative education—to join us online this November for our upcoming Meet and Discuss session....
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Sharon Smith, Dr
Assistant Head of Teaching & Learning: Outcomes at Tute, VL and Research Associate at University of Chester
Sharon Smith is a Visiting Lecturer and Associate Researcher at the University of Chester. Sharon completed her PGCE (2006) and MA in Teaching and Learning (2010) at Manchester Metropolitan University, before completing her Doctorate at The University of Chester (2020).
Sharon’s research interests are underpinned by her belief in the need for a movement away from homogenised educational practices at a local, national and global level and in the prioritisation of student and teacher experiences to inform educational reform.
Sharon Smith's contributions
Encouraging Intercultural Sharing and Community Building through Embodied Learning in an Alternative Education Space
Emily Dobrich was awarded best presentation for Alternative Education at the 2024 BERA/WERA conference for her presentation: An Embodied Educational Research Project to Build Solidarity and...
Perspectives from Ireland – Opening the Black Box of Alternative Education Provision in Ireland
While the right to education is guaranteed under the Irish constitution (Kennedy & Smyth, 2018) educational inequality is a continuing feature within the education system (Cahill, 2020). On...
Perspectives from Ireland – Opening the Black Box of Alternative Education Provision in Ireland
While the right to education was guaranteed under the Irish constitution (Kennedy & Smyth, 2018), educational inequality remained a continuing feature within the education system (Cahill, 2020)....
How the BJET Fellowship helped shape my research
The 2019 BJET Fellowship was awarded to Sharon Smith (University of Chester) for her research proposal: “The use of online data collection methods to explore student perspectives on...
Alternative Education
The Alternative Education SIG takes the broadest approach to ‘alternative’ that we can. We are interested in all forms of out of school educational provision and with ‘alternative’...