Unsworth, Ruth

• Senior Lecturer in Initial Primary Teacher Education
• School of Education, Language and Psychology

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Article

Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2024) Place, space and time: A topological perspective of a forest school-based educational mode of existence. European Educational Research Journal.

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) 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) 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, 55 (1). pp. 24-42.

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 and Tummons, Jonathan (2021) Reassembling teachers’ professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics. Ethnography and Education, 16 (1). pp. 109-126.

Book Section

Clarke, Matthew and Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2024) Teacher education, agency and knowledge: Conditions of epistemic (in)justice in teacher education. In: Magnússon, Gunnlaugur, Phelan, Anne, Heimans, Stephen and Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590, (eds.) Teacher Education and Its Discontents: Politics, Knowledge, and Ethics. Local/global issues in education . Routledge

Conference or Workshop Item

Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590 (2024) Researching in Uncertain Times: Exploring the Potential of An Inquiry into Modes of Existence in Teacher Education Research. In: ECER 2024, August 2024, Nicosia, Cyrpus. (Submitted)

Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590, Heimans, Stephen, Phelan, Anne, Rüsselbæk Hansen, Dion and Clarke, Matthew (2024) ‘What comes into our minds?’’: A conversational and thoughtful response to Bojesen. In: ECER 2024, August 2024, Nicosia, Cyrpus. (Unpublished)

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) Short term ethnography in education research. In: ECER 2023, Glasgow, 22-25th August 2023, Glasgow University, UK. (Submitted)

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) 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)

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 (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) 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) 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.

Book

Magnússon, Gunnlaugur, Phelan, Anne, Heimans, Stephen and Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590, eds. (2024) Teacher Education and Its Discontents : Politics, Knowledge, and Ethics. Local/global issues in education . Routledge

Thesis

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.