Stephen Newman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Newman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Newman |
| SIGNATURE | NEWMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2674-9154 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teacher recruitment and retention in England: A Foucauldian analysis of disempowerment
Use the following text (188 words):Persistent under-recruitment and poor retention threaten the sustainability of England’s education system, with shortages acute among early career teachers. Using Michel Foucault’s ideas of power, discipline, and governmentality, this paper argues that these issues stem not only from workload or pay but from systemic disempowerment. Successive reforms have enabled the Department for Education to centralise contr…
Perspectives on professionalism
Teacher professionalism has been much discussed over many years, not least by the contributors to this journal and others (see, for example, Creasy Citation2015; Tatto Citation2021; Wright and Bottery Citation1997; Zhao and Liao Citation2024). The papers in this issue can perhaps be seen as contributing to the discussion of professionalism as ‘a global concept that is conceptualised, cultivated, measured, and realised in regionally specific ways’…
Teacher education: Familiar themes in changing times
What works in initial teacher education
I recently drew attention to the fact that, in England, initial teacher education (ITE) was under attack, contrasting ITE with the British government’s preferred term of initial teacher training (I
Teacher education under attack
Vygotsky, education, and teacher education
The work of Vygotsky is widely used in teacher education and other education-related literature, in discussion of sociocultural perspectives, and in relation to themes such as second language acquisition, the teaching of mathematics, and approaches to teaching and learning. Much of this work gives the impression that Vygotsky’s work is unproblematic. This paper challenges that view. It is argued that Vygotsky’s descriptions of learning and teachi…
Quantifying the unreported and unaccounted domestic and foreign commercial catch of sharks and rays in Western Australia
Initial teacher education in England and the Covid-19 pandemic: Challenges and opportunities
This paper examines the impact and implications on initial teacher education (ITE) of the crisis brought about by the Covid-19 lockdown of schools and universities from the perspectives of four university providers in England. The start of the pandemic meant that, in England, schools were closed to all but vulnerable pupils and the children of ‘key workers’, and so the normal placements of students in teacher education (ITE students) could not co…
Vygotsky, Wittgenstein, and sociocultural theory
This paper considers the use made of Vygotsky's work by many who take a sociocultural perspective and, in particular, by those who use his work to advance a particular view of second language acquisition and the ‘silent period’. It is argued that Vygotsky's account as represented in Thought and Language (Vygotsky, ) needs to be thought of as consisting of two distinct aspects: first, the observations he made (or claimed to have made) and, second,…
On 'becoming social: The Importance of Collaborative Free Play in Childhood
There is increasing concern about declining mental health amongst children in the UK and the USA. Evolutionary and anthropological theorists have begun to build a theory linking this situation to decreasing opportunities to engage in free play. This paper will explore typical contexts for children in these nations, concluding that a range of recently emerging environments have decreased opportunities for collaborative peer free play and ‘discover…
A Note On Common Sense and Christian Eschatology
According Bernard Bailyn, Common Sense carried its case for independence to the point where the whole received paradigm within which the Anglo-American controversy had until then preceded came into question. Thomas Paine's success with Common Sense is not easily accounted for. In trying, commentators have repeatedly been drawn the pamphlet's lack of scholarly citations designed impress the educated elite and its substitution of the everyday langu…
On 'becoming social: The Importance of Collaborative Free Play in Childhood
There is increasing concern about declining mental health amongst children in the UK and the USA. Evolutionary and anthropological theorists have begun to build a theory linking this situation to decreasing opportunities to engage in free play. This paper will explore typical contexts for children in these nations, concluding that a range of recently emerging environments have decreased opportunities for collaborative peer free play and ‘discover…
Vygotsky, Wittgenstein, and sociocultural theory
This paper considers the use made of Vygotsky's work by many who take a sociocultural perspective and, in particular, by those who use his work to advance a particular view of second language acquisition and the ‘silent period’. It is argued that Vygotsky's account as represented in Thought and Language (Vygotsky, ) needs to be thought of as consisting of two distinct aspects: first, the observations he made (or claimed to have made) and, second,…
A Note On Common Sense and Christian Eschatology
According Bernard Bailyn, Common Sense carried its case for independence to the point where the whole received paradigm within which the Anglo-American controversy had until then preceded came into question. Thomas Paine's success with Common Sense is not easily accounted for. In trying, commentators have repeatedly been drawn the pamphlet's lack of scholarly citations designed impress the educated elite and its substitution of the everyday langu…
On 'becoming social: The Importance of Collaborative Free Play in Childhood
There is increasing concern about declining mental health amongst children in the UK and the USA. Evolutionary and anthropological theorists have begun to build a theory linking this situation to decreasing opportunities to engage in free play. This paper will explore typical contexts for children in these nations, concluding that a range of recently emerging environments have decreased opportunities for collaborative peer free play and ‘discover…
Vygotsky, Wittgenstein, and sociocultural theory
This paper considers the use made of Vygotsky's work by many who take a sociocultural perspective and, in particular, by those who use his work to advance a particular view of second language acquisition and the ‘silent period’. It is argued that Vygotsky's account as represented in Thought and Language (Vygotsky, ) needs to be thought of as consisting of two distinct aspects: first, the observations he made (or claimed to have made) and, second,…
Initial teacher education in England and the Covid-19 pandemic: Challenges and opportunities
This paper examines the impact and implications on initial teacher education (ITE) of the crisis brought about by the Covid-19 lockdown of schools and universities from the perspectives of four university providers in England. The start of the pandemic meant that, in England, schools were closed to all but vulnerable pupils and the children of ‘key workers’, and so the normal placements of students in teacher education (ITE students) could not co…
Vygotsky, education, and teacher education
The work of Vygotsky is widely used in teacher education and other education-related literature, in discussion of sociocultural perspectives, and in relation to themes such as second language acquisition, the teaching of mathematics, and approaches to teaching and learning. Much of this work gives the impression that Vygotsky’s work is unproblematic. This paper challenges that view. It is argued that Vygotsky’s descriptions of learning and teachi…
Quantifying the unreported and unaccounted domestic and foreign commercial catch of sharks and rays in Western Australia
Teacher education under attack
What works in initial teacher education
I recently drew attention to the fact that, in England, initial teacher education (ITE) was under attack, contrasting ITE with the British government’s preferred term of initial teacher training (I
Teacher education: Familiar themes in changing times
Teacher recruitment and retention in England: A Foucauldian analysis of disempowerment
Use the following text (188 words):Persistent under-recruitment and poor retention threaten the sustainability of England’s education system, with shortages acute among early career teachers. Using Michel Foucault’s ideas of power, discipline, and governmentality, this paper argues that these issues stem not only from workload or pay but from systemic disempowerment. Successive reforms have enabled the Department for Education to centralise contr…
Perspectives on professionalism
Teacher professionalism has been much discussed over many years, not least by the contributors to this journal and others (see, for example, Creasy Citation2015; Tatto Citation2021; Wright and Bottery Citation1997; Zhao and Liao Citation2024). The papers in this issue can perhaps be seen as contributing to the discussion of professionalism as ‘a global concept that is conceptualised, cultivated, measured, and realised in regionally specific ways’…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Teacher education (5 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (2 works)