Sophie Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 5398023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5146-9325 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Compassionate inquiry
In this paper, we identify the use of Digital Storytelling (DS) as a mode of pedagogy aligned with an ethics of care. We consider how DS, as summative assessment, may foreground care ethics such as attentiveness, responsiveness, and trust. Our interest in this topic stems from our concern over the impact on staff and students of the massification of higher education, which includes low attendance, social isolation, and educator burnout. This pape…
Exploring the religious and spiritual trajectory of cathedral choristers in England
The present paper reports findings from interviews with thirty exchoristers from cathedrals and collegiate chapels in England, aged from eighteen to eighty. These interviews explored choristers' religious commitments before entering choir school and factors for staying with, leaving, or later returning to religious practice. The findings suggest that the attitudes to religion among ex-choristers mirror those of the wider population and confirms t…
Education at the end of history
By 1989, fascism had long been defeated in Europe, and reforms in the Soviet Union appeared to signify the collapse of communist ideology, prompting Francis Fukuyama to famously declare the ‘end of history’. Since then, neoliberalism has been rolled out globally. This paper argues that, with regard to higher education, Fukuyama’s claim that the pursuit of knowledge will be replaced by the ‘satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands’ is presci…
School leadership for equity
Responding to Thrupp's [2003. “The School Leadership Literature in Managerialist Times: Exploring the Problem of Textual Apologism.” School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation 23 (2): 169] call for writers on school leadership to offer ‘analyses which provide more critical messages about social inequality and neoliberal and managerialist policies’ we use Foucault's [2000. “The Subject and Power.” In Michel Foucault: Power, edite…
Education Under the Heel of Caesar
Journal Article Education Under the Heel of Caesar: Reading UK Higher Education Reform through Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra Get access Sophie Ward Sophie Ward Correspondence: Sophie Ward, School of Education, University of Durham, Durham DH1 1TA, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 46, Issue 4, November 2012, Pages 619–630, https…
School leadership for equity
Responding to Thrupp's [2003. “The School Leadership Literature in Managerialist Times: Exploring the Problem of Textual Apologism.” School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation 23 (2): 169] call for writers on school leadership to offer ‘analyses which provide more critical messages about social inequality and neoliberal and managerialist policies’ we use Foucault's [2000. “The Subject and Power.” In Michel Foucault: Power, edite…
Education Under the Heel of Caesar
Journal Article Education Under the Heel of Caesar: Reading UK Higher Education Reform through Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra Get access Sophie Ward Sophie Ward Correspondence: Sophie Ward, School of Education, University of Durham, Durham DH1 1TA, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 46, Issue 4, November 2012, Pages 619–630, https…
School leadership for equity
Responding to Thrupp's [2003. “The School Leadership Literature in Managerialist Times: Exploring the Problem of Textual Apologism.” School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation 23 (2): 169] call for writers on school leadership to offer ‘analyses which provide more critical messages about social inequality and neoliberal and managerialist policies’ we use Foucault's [2000. “The Subject and Power.” In Michel Foucault: Power, edite…
Education at the end of history
By 1989, fascism had long been defeated in Europe, and reforms in the Soviet Union appeared to signify the collapse of communist ideology, prompting Francis Fukuyama to famously declare the ‘end of history’. Since then, neoliberalism has been rolled out globally. This paper argues that, with regard to higher education, Fukuyama’s claim that the pursuit of knowledge will be replaced by the ‘satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands’ is presci…
Exploring the religious and spiritual trajectory of cathedral choristers in England
The present paper reports findings from interviews with thirty exchoristers from cathedrals and collegiate chapels in England, aged from eighteen to eighty. These interviews explored choristers' religious commitments before entering choir school and factors for staying with, leaving, or later returning to religious practice. The findings suggest that the attitudes to religion among ex-choristers mirror those of the wider population and confirms t…
Compassionate inquiry
In this paper, we identify the use of Digital Storytelling (DS) as a mode of pedagogy aligned with an ethics of care. We consider how DS, as summative assessment, may foreground care ethics such as attentiveness, responsiveness, and trust. Our interest in this topic stems from our concern over the impact on staff and students of the massification of higher education, which includes low attendance, social isolation, and educator burnout. This pape…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Neoliberalism (international relations (2 works)