Whitfield, Louise

• Programme Lead: BA Primary Education
• ITE

Link to Public Profile

Article

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).

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.

Book Section

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

Conference or Workshop Item

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 (Unpublished)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, 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 (Unpublished)

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 (Unpublished)

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)

Thesis

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.

Other

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.