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Professor Richard Woolley's Outputs (4)

Using a bespoke, triad narrative analysis approach with Gen Z students: telling the story of their values (2024)
Journal Article
Hill, E., Gossman, P., & Woolley, R. (2024). Using a bespoke, triad narrative analysis approach with Gen Z students: telling the story of their values. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2023.2285628

This paper presents an innovative narrative data analysis approach, used in a narrative research project exploring student values. The work of three different authors was drawn upon to create a novel, rigorous and synergistic analysis tool. A novel a... Read More about Using a bespoke, triad narrative analysis approach with Gen Z students: telling the story of their values.

‘We cry together every day’–expressing complex emotion in research with early childhood practitioners (2023)
Journal Article
Hodgkins, A., Gossman, P., Paige, R., & Woolley, R. (2023). ‘We cry together every day’–expressing complex emotion in research with early childhood practitioners. Early Years: an international journal of research and development, https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2023.2266587

This article uses selected findings from a small-scale research project entitled ‘Exploring early childhood practitioners’ perceptions of empathic interactions with children and families’. The project used an Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (I... Read More about ‘We cry together every day’–expressing complex emotion in research with early childhood practitioners.

Religious Education and Its Interaction with the Spiritual Dimension of Childhood: Teachers’ Perceptions, Understanding and Aspirations (2022)
Journal Article
Hill, E., & Woolley, R. (2022). Religious Education and Its Interaction with the Spiritual Dimension of Childhood: Teachers’ Perceptions, Understanding and Aspirations. Religions, 13(4), Article 280. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13040280

In England, religious education (RE) is a part of the basic curriculum mandatory for all pupils in the compulsory years of schooling. This paper explores how RE and spirituality interact and whether one can contribute to the effective delivery of the... Read More about Religious Education and Its Interaction with the Spiritual Dimension of Childhood: Teachers’ Perceptions, Understanding and Aspirations.

Towards an inclusive understanding of bullying: identifying conceptions and practice in the primary school workforce (2018)
Journal Article
Woolley, R. (2019). Towards an inclusive understanding of bullying: identifying conceptions and practice in the primary school workforce. Educational review, 71(6), 730-747. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2018.1471666

Bullying is defined in a variety of ways in different contexts, and each individual school in England is required to develop its own working definition, parameters and policy. This paper explores a variety of definitions from government and third sec... Read More about Towards an inclusive understanding of bullying: identifying conceptions and practice in the primary school workforce.