Meet the Learning Beyond the Classroom Team:

Jane Fletcher

Jane is currently working on the Initial Teacher Training BA programme where she is a senior lecturer and Subject Coordinator, overseeing the BA course and specifically the year 3 lead. Jane is the module leader for the Learning beyond the Classroom module exhibited here. She picked this up from Carol Ducker the original module leader who designed the module.

Before developing her career as a higher educationalist, she worked in a range of primary schools in the UK, Germany and Asia.

Alongside her work with students she is also undertaking her doctorate in Education.

Jane is a member of the British Educational Research Association (BERA).

Sarah Frodsham

Sarah is a post-doctoral research associate for a number of externally and internally funded projects. These were awarded by the Primary Science Teaching Trust and the Oxford Brookes Excellence Research and Impact Award scheme. The projects are:

- exploring the nature and influence of creativity-in-school-science: through the professional scientist’s perspective';

- examining the legacy of creative science teaching;

- considering science through storytelling approaches;

- theorising about the use of Ipads in primary science, and finally,

- examining the impact of the thinking, doing and talking randomised control trail.

Sarah also has the role of Research Convenor, Associate Lecturer and Ma Ethics Officer for the Oxford Brookes School of Education and is an active member of (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) STEAM research group at Oxford Brookes University. Additionally, she convenes a monthly writing group: ‘Think, articulate, edit…. write!’, which takes place on the same university campus.

Karen Hosack Janes

Karen is an independent education consultant and an associate of Chris Quigley Education Ltd. She specialises in pedagogy that nurtures creative development. She has taught in schools, in the museums and galleries sector, and at university level. Her publications include Using the Visual Arts for Cross-curricular Teaching and Learning: Imaginative ideas for the primary school (Routledge) and a number of books on art for young people (Raintree and Heinemann Library). Her doctoral study, focusing on the nature of teaching and learning when paintings are used as a central stimulus, is available on the Oxford University Research Archive.

Whilst Head of Schools at the National Gallery, London, Karen led the well-known Take One Picture scheme, from which in 2003 she developed a placement programme for Initial Teacher Training students. It involved five universities and their regional museums, and was Government-funded as part of the National/Regional Museums Education Partnership. The current cultural placements at Oxford Brookes have evolved from this programme to be a sustainable integrated element of the BA(Hons) Primary Education course, as demonstrated in the online exhibition on this website.

Deb McGregor

Deb has held a variety of positions in Higher Education, both in the US and the UK. She has also worked as a science, biology and chemistry teacher in secondary schools in the midlands, and an ICT advisory teacher in Staffordshire LA. She led the Secondary Science PGCE at Keele Unversity. She has worked as an Assistant Professor in Secondary Science Education in Central Connecticut State University and has been an Adjunct Professor at Bridgeport University, USA.

Research as involved a wide range of teaching and learning, professional development and curricular projects carried out in schools, colleges and LAs in Europe, Asia and the US.

The funding bodies have included University of Ljubljana Slovenia; Malaysian Education Department; Singaporean International Schools; Connecticut Schools; Higher Education Academy; Esmee Fairbairne; Primary Science Teaching Trust (formerly Astra Zeneca Science Teaching Trust); Walsall LA; Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.

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