SIG Meet & Discuss: Alternative Education
We warmly invite members of the BERA Alternative Education SIG—and anyone with an interest in alternative education—to join us online this November for our upcoming Meet and Discuss session....
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Sarah Gillie, Dr
Senior Lecturer at University of the West of England
Sarah Gillie is a former primary school teacher whose research interests relate to inclusion in education across and beyond ‘compulsory’ schooling. Family diagnoses of neurodivergence have only strengthened her conviction that inclusive practice should reflect individual strengths and needs. Sarah’s master’s research explored the potential for executive function targeted learning support. Her doctoral thesis focused on families who home educate when schools are not considered to meet children’s needs. Since 2016, Sarah has lectured on undergraduate and postgraduate courses with a focus on early years and/or inclusion. She joined the University of the West of England (UWE) in January 2021 as a senior lecturer in Education and Early Childhood.
Sarah Gillie's contributions
Encouraging Intercultural Sharing and Community Building through Embodied Learning in an Alternative Education Space
Emily Dobrich was awarded best presentation for Alternative Education at the 2024 BERA/WERA conference for her presentation: An Embodied Educational Research Project to Build Solidarity and...
Perspectives from Ireland – Opening the Black Box of Alternative Education Provision in Ireland
While the right to education is guaranteed under the Irish constitution (Kennedy & Smyth, 2018) educational inequality is a continuing feature within the education system (Cahill, 2020). On...
Perspectives from Ireland – Opening the Black Box of Alternative Education Provision in Ireland
While the right to education was guaranteed under the Irish constitution (Kennedy & Smyth, 2018), educational inequality remained a continuing feature within the education system (Cahill, 2020)....
Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education
In the decade before the first Covid-19 lockdown, the numbers of children deregistered from school to begin home education increased annually (ADCS, 2021). Concomitantly – as noted by Ofsted...
Continue reading blog postAlternative Education
The Alternative Education SIG takes the broadest approach to ‘alternative’ that we can. We are interested in all forms of out of school educational provision and with ‘alternative’...