Sarah Pearce BA PGCE PhD
Sarah is a lecturer in Education Primary PGCE and BA in Education, Culture and Society
Sarah joined the department in 2003. Before this she taught in
primary schools in Manchester and Cambridge for eleven years. Throughout
her career, she has always been most interested in the personal,
social and cultural aspects of schooling. She currently teaches
a course in Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity, General
Professional Studies on the Primary PGCE, and is involved in MA and PhD teaching and supervision.
Research interests
Her main research interests are in the area of social justice and equity in education. She is particularly interested in the impact of ‘race’ on the teaching and learning process, and in the use of biographical and autobiographical research methods. Her PhD research was a practitioner research study of the influence of whiteness as a racial identity on the attitudes of white teachers. She is currently working on a piece of research looking at how Newly Qualified Teachers approach ethnic diversity.
Selected publications
You Wouldn’t Understand: white teachers in multi-ethnic classrooms (2005) Stoke on Trent, Trentham
The development of one teacher’s understanding of practitioner research in a multi-ethnic primary school (2004) Educational Action Research, 12: 1
Compiling the White Inventory: the practice of whiteness in a British Primary School (2003) Cambridge Journal of Education, 33:2