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, Clarke, Matthew and Rüsselbæk Hansen, Dion (2023) Immunitas and (un)desirable teacher knowledge in teacher education. European Journal of Education, 59 (1).
Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2023) Short term ethnography in education research. In: ECER 2023, Glasgow, 22-25th August 2023, Glasgow University, UK. (Submitted)
Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2023) Wellies and whittle-sticks: an ethnographic study of the role of physical artefacts in establishing children’s connection to the ‘forest’. In: Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference 2023, 4-6th September 2023, Oxford, UK. (Submitted)
Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2023) A new mode of control: an actor-network theory account of effects of power and agency in establishing education policy. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 56 (1). pp. 54-68.
Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2023) Tracing translation of an education policy initiative (Maths Mastery) into primary school teachers' classroom practices: an actor-network theory ethnography. Doctoral thesis, Durham University.
Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 and Raymond, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0462-8984 (2023) Developing Creative Thinking. Impact Journal. pp. 30-31.
Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2023) Teaching through the cloud: An ethnography of the role of cloud-based collaborative technologies in the formation of teachers’ classroom practices. Anthropology and Education Quarterly Journal.
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.

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Rethinking Agency in Teacher Education: A psychosocial perspective	73	24
2	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	59	23
3	Cambridge University Kaleidoscope Conference (May 2019) – educator/research conference, presentation of findings: A socio-material understanding of the formation of teachers' professional knowledge	51	8
4	Reassembling teachers’ professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics	44	30
5	Ethnography in Education, University of Pennsylvania (February 2019) – presentation of findings: An actor-network theory analysis of actors influencing the formation of teacher professionalism	42	8
6	Teaching through the cloud: An ethnography of the role of cloud-based collaborative technologies in the formation of teachers’ classroom practices.	41	10
7	Immunitas and Teacher Knowledge	40	4
8	Developing Creative Thinking	37
9	TEAN Webinar: What Should We Teach New Teachers?	35	10
10	Immunitas and (un)desirable teacher knowledge in teacher education	26	32