Staff Profile:Jane Fieldsend

Name:

Ms Jane Fieldsend

Job Title:

Lecturer in Science Education

Responsibilities:

Teaching:

• Secondary PGCE course, including Science and Professional Studies
• Subject Knowledge Enhancement (Chemistry) course and some input to Subject Knowledge Enhancement (Physics) course
• Pilot Subject Knowledge Enhancement (Chemistry) course for teachers
• Supervision of final year BA(Ed) on Advanced Teaching Project
• Supervision of Early Professional Development Module
• Input to Changing with the Climate project

Areas of Interest:

Areas of expertise and research interest:

• Subject Matter Knowledge (SMK) and Pedagogical Content knowledge (PCK) for science teaching
• 14-19 education
• Role of practical work in Science teaching
• Student subject choice post 16

Areas in which you are able to supervise at Masters level:

• Supervision of Early Professional Development Module

Current & Recent Research Projects:

• Subject Matter Knowledge (SMK) and Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) for science Initial Teacher Education
• A study of the science curriculum, and its contribution to, science subject choice post 16
• Changing with the climate
• Use of diagrams in science teaching

Research groups / Centres:

• Science Research group
• 14-19 Research group
• PALAVA

Publications:

• Fieldsend J; Oversby J.P.; A study of the Subject Matter Knowledge (SMK), of Secondary Science Trainee Teachers at the start of their training. Poster presented at the ESERA Conference, September 5-9^th 2011 Lyon, France
• Fieldsend J; Oversby J.P.; A study of the Subject Matter Knowledge (SMK), of Secondary Science Trainee Teachers. Paper presented at the IOSTE (NW region) Conference, June 20-21^st 2011, Reading, England
• Fieldsend J; Oversby J.P.; A study of the Subject Matter Knowledge (SMK), of Secondary Physics Trainee Teachers; Presentation to the Institute of Physics Conference 24^th-25^th March 2011
• Contribution to the Nuffield study on practical work, during Initial Science Teacher Education

Enterprise activity; external roles and consultancy:

• Assisted with the ASE annual conference January 2011