Laura Teague
Staff details
Laura teaches across programmes in the Educational Studies Department including BA Education, Culture and Society, the Primary PGCE and the Doctoral Research Training course.
Her current research focuses on pedagogy, counter politics and subjectivities. She draws on a range of poststructuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives to theorise the micro politics of classroom practice; exploring the possibility of everyday pedagogic interventions to disrupt the normative discourses and practices perpetuating educational inequalities.
She has a longstanding interest in praxis in educational settings. The relationship between her theoretical writing and her teaching practice is iterative and she explores methodological approaches to capture and inform this process. Laura has been involved in ESRC research projects investigating how to address sexuality equality in primary schooling and on the impact of postgraduate educational research.
Research Interests
- Educational in/equalities
- Ethnographic and autoethnographic research methodologies
- Student and teacher subjectivities
- Counter politics
- Psychosocial approaches
- Queer theory
- Poststructural theory
- Gender and sexuality in young people’s worlds
- Education policy
Publications and research outputs
Article
Teague, Laura. 2022. Including ‘difficult’ students: counter politics, play and liveability in the primary school classroom. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 43(1), pp. 145-157. ISSN 0159-6306
Teague, Laura. 2018. The curriculum as a site of counter politics: theorising the ‘domain of the sayable’. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39(1), pp. 92-106. ISSN 0142-5692
Teague, Laura. 2015. ‘Acceptance of the limits of knowability in oneself and others’: performative politics and relational ethics in the primary school classroom. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 36(3), pp. 398-408. ISSN 0159-6306
Teague, Laura. 2014. Understanding education's difficult silences socially and psychically (review essay). Culture, Peagagy and Society, 22(2), pp. 321-327. ISSN 1468-1366
Teague, Laura. 2014. Subjectivity, Agency and Political Pedagogy in the Primary School. Global Studies of Childhood, 4(1), pp. 3-10.
Cullen, Fin and Teague, Laura. 2009. Lesbian Cinderella and other stories: telling tales and researching sexualities equalities in primary school. Sex Education, 9(2), pp. 141-154. ISSN 1468-1811
DePalma, Renee and Teague, Laura. 2008. A democratic community of practice: unpicking all those words. Educational Action Research, 16(4), pp. 441-456. ISSN 0965-0792
