Ruth Unsworth

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Ruth Unsworth

Email:

r.unsworth@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Education, Language and Psychology

Organisation:

York St John University

Biography

Expertise:

Teacher education, Ethnography, Refugee and asylum seeker education, Actor network theory, Teacher professionalism, Teacher agency

Job title:

Senior Lecturer in Initial Primary Teacher Education

Biography:

My research centres around ethnography and social research. Currently, I am leading a systematic review of the literature surrounding educational provision for refugee and asylum seeking families, contributing to the work of the Institute of Social Justice. I am also part of the International Teacher Education Research Collective (@_ITERC)- a research collaboration of international universities focused on issues surrounding teacher education. Other current projects include an ethnographic study using actor-network theory and concepts from literacy studies to investigate how education reform influences teachers' professional practices. My own teaching career has spanned state, UK independent and international sectors, including school leadership and working as a Local Authority Educatimore...

Qualifications:

BA (Hons) PGCE MA PhD (pending completion)

My Latest

Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2022) The Voice of Google. An ethnography of the role of cloud-based collaborative technologies in the formation of primary classroom practices. In: Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference 2022, September 2022, University of Oxford. (Unpublished)
Clarke, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4693-248X and Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2022) Rethinking Agency in Teacher Education: A psychosocial perspective. In: Rethinking Agency in Teacher Education: A psychosocial perspective (seminar), June 2022, University of Aberdeen. (Submitted)
Clarke, Matthew and Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2022) Immunitas and Teacher Knowledge. In: Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA), June 2022, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2022) TEAN Webinar: What Should We Teach New Teachers? In: TEAN Webinar, 26/01/2022, Online.
Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 and Tummons, Jonathan (2021) Reassembling teachers’ professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics. Ethnography and Education, 16 (1). pp. 109-126.
Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2019) Cambridge University Kaleidoscope Conference (May 2019) – educator/research conference, presentation of findings: A socio-material understanding of the formation of teachers' professional knowledge. In: Cambridge University Kaleidoscope Conference, May/June 2019, University of Cambridge.
Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2019) Oxford Ethnography in Education Conference, Oxford University (September 2019) – paper presentation and seminar: Reassembling teachers’ professional knowledge: a socio-material view of the role of intertextual hierarchies during a change to primary mathematics teaching. In: Oxford Ethnography in Education Conference, Oxford University (September 2019), September 2019, University of Oxford.
Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2019) Ethnography in Education, University of Pennsylvania (February 2019) – presentation of findings: An actor-network theory analysis of actors influencing the formation of teacher professionalism. In: Ethnography in Education, University of Pennsylvania (February 2019), February 2019, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

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1	Rethinking Agency in Teacher Education: A psychosocial perspective	34	17
2	Cambridge University Kaleidoscope Conference (May 2019) – educator/research conference, presentation of findings: A socio-material understanding of the formation of teachers' professional knowledge	31	4
3	Oxford Ethnography in Education Conference, Oxford University (September 2019) – paper presentation and seminar: Reassembling teachers’ professional knowledge: a socio-material view of the role of intertextual hierarchies during a change to primary mathematics teaching	29	6
4	Ethnography in Education, University of Pennsylvania (February 2019) – presentation of findings: An actor-network theory analysis of actors influencing the formation of teacher professionalism	25	3
5	Immunitas and Teacher Knowledge	15	2
6	Reassembling teachers’ professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics	13	9
7	TEAN Webinar: What Should We Teach New Teachers?	10	3
8	The Voice of Google. An ethnography of the role of cloud-based collaborative technologies in the formation of primary classroom practices.	3