About
Dr Alex Woodgate-Jones is a Senior Teaching Fellow based in Southampton Education School.
Alex currently works predominantly on the BSc in Education studies (as the Associate Programme Director), the Primary PGCE programme where her teaching focuses on primary pedagogy, and the Masters in Education programmes. She has reviewed papers for several journals including Teaching and Teacher Education, Language Learning and Journal of Education for Teaching, and has completed several research projects funded by the TDA (related to teaching trainee teachers).
The subject of her PhD was the introduction of the modern foreign language initiative into primary schools in England, with an emerging focus on teacher professionalism, teacher voice and teachers’ responses to imposed change.
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Research
Research interests
- Modern foreign language teaching
- Changing role of teachers
- Developing children's emotional wellbeing
- How children learn
- Role of PSHE and positive behaviour management
Current research
Alex is interested in all aspects of teaching and learning in primary education, particularly aspects related to promoting positive learning behaviours, emotional well being and inclusion.
She is also interested in the role of the teacher and how this has changed (particularly the notion of teachers as professionals and how their voices are often neither sought nor heard). She has published articles concerning the purpose of modern foreign language teaching in primary schools (including the status of linguistic competence and intercultural understanding). She is a member of CRI (Centre for Research in Inclusion).
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Teaching
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Inclusion, behaviour management, planning, assessment in primary schools
Learning theories and their application to primary education
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Biography
Having completed a degree in French and Spanish, Alex spent several years teaching in a school in the Basque country which sparked an ongoing interest in teaching and learning.
Having returned to the UK, she completed her PGCE and subsequently taught in primary schools in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire as a classteacher and literacy coordinator.
She currently works predominantly on the BSc in Education studies (as the Associate Programme Director), the Primary PGCE programme where her teaching focuses on primary pedagogy, and the Masters in Education programmes. She has reviewed papers for several journals including Teaching and Teacher Education, Language Learning and Journal of Education for Teaching, and has completed several research projects funded by the TDA (related to teaching trainee teachers). The subject of her PhD was the introduction of the modern foreign language initiative into primary schools in England, with an emerging focus on teacher professionalism, teacher voice and teachers’ responses to imposed change.
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