Whitfield, Louise

• Programme Lead: BA Primary Education
• ITE

Link to Public Profile

Rock, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6868-3940, Meredith, Margaret ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4541-3821, Collins, Jane, Elbra-Ramsay, Caroline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7281-0166, Raymond, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0462-8984 and Whitfield, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2268-338X (2026) ‘It’s actually changed my perspective’: spaces for genuine dialogic surprise within the initial teacher education curriculum. London Review of Education, 24 (1).

Trussler, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9330-7578 and Whitfield, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2268-338X (2025) ITE student teacher journeys from interview to the end of Year 2: ​The developing reflective professional ​. In: Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) Annual Conference, 11-12 November 2025, Leeds. (Unpublished)

Sors, Lucy and Whitfield, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2268-338X (2025) Four-year-olds don’t need to sit still to be ‘school ready’. The Conversation.

Sors, Lucy, Huntsley, Jennifer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5613-5703, Jach, Stephanie and Whitfield, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2268-338X (2025) The next generation of outdoor learning: Fostering place-responsive pedagogy in Initial Teacher Education. In: BERA Conference 2025, 8-11th September 2025, Brighton. (Unpublished)

Sors, Lucy and Whitfield, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2268-338X (2025) Decolonising Outdoor Learning: Developing Connectedness Through Place-responsive Pedagogy Beyond the Early Years in England. In: Sors, Lucy and Unsworth, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-3590, (eds.) The BERA Guide to Outdoor Learning: Place-responsive Pedagogy in Educational Research and Practice. Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 33-52

Whitfield, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2268-338X (2022) A Rollercoaster of Challenges and Rewards: How Primary Early Career Teachers (ECTs) in England navigate and manage their professional identity against the current educational policy context. Doctoral thesis, York St John University.

Parker, Keither ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4517-5544, Day, Richard and Whitfield, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2268-338X (2021) Teacher trajectories: rhetoric & reality, autonomy & constraint. In: UCET Annual Conference, 2-3 November 2021, online. (Unpublished)

Whitfield, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2268-338X (2019) Moving beyond the ‘initial’ in Initial Teacher Education: the role of ITE providers in supporting and developing new teachers. Teacher Education Advancement Network Journa, 11 (3). pp. 15-24.

Elbra-Ramsay, Caroline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7281-0166 and Whitfield, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2268-338X (2018) Moving beyond the ‘Initial’ in Initial Teacher Education: The role of ITE in supporting and developing new teachers. In: TEAN 2018 CONFERENCE, Birmingham. (Submitted)