Staff Profile:Dr Margaret Perkins

Name:

Dr Margaret Perkins

Job Title:

Senior Tutor/Lecturer/Assistant Director GTP Primary

Responsibilities:

Main responsibilities at the Institute of Education:

• Management of primary GTP Programme, chair of Partnership Development group.

Teaching:

• Curriculum English, professional studies, Child Development Mentor and ITT co-ordinator training and development

Areas of Interest:

Areas of expertise and research interest [able to supervise at PhD and Masters level]:

• Teaching and learning of literacy,Personal and professional choices in teacher training
• The professional development of trainee and beginner teachers of reading, Reading and language autobiographies - the relationship between the personal and the professional

Current and recent Research Students:

• Guided reading
• Attitudes to reading
• The efficacy of intervention programmes in the primary school

Current and recent Research Projects:

• Reading Aloud in primary Schools
• Observing Primary Literacy
• Using Phenomenography with young children

Research groups / Centres:

• Member of L1 research group
• Member of UKLA and NATE

Publications:

Y

Jump to: 2011 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006

Number of items: 4.

2011

• Perkins, M. (2011) Teaching poetry in the early years. In: Lockwood, M. (ed.) Bringing poetry alive. Sage, London, pp. 26-37. ISBN 9780857020734

2008

• Perkins, M. (2008) Literature for the very young. In: Goodwin, P. E. (ed.) Understanding Children's Books: A Guide for Education Professionals. Sage, London, pp. 21-31. ISBN 9781847870322

2007

• Perkins, M. (2007) Inside the classroom: three approaches to phonics teaching. In: Goodwin, (ed.) Phonics: practice, research and policy. UKLA/PCP. ISBN 9781412930864

2006

• Goodwin, P. and Perkins, M. (2006) Play and planning: a sound pathway to pleasurable reading. In: Lewis, M. and Ellis, S. (eds.) Phonics: practice, research and policy. SAGE, London, pp. 54-58. ISBN 9781412930864

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Godwin, D. & Perkins, M. (2002 2^nd ed.) Teaching Language and Literacy in the Early Years. London: David Fulton.

'Literacy and subject knowledge' in Goodwyn, A. (ed) (2002) Improving Literacy at KS1 and KS2 London: PCP

'Literacy, creativity and popular culture' in Goodwin, P. (2004) Literacy through Creativity London: David Fulton.

'Making space for literacy' in Goodwin, P. (2005 2^nd ed.) The Literate Classroom. London: David Fulton.

'Inside the Classroom: three approaches to phonics teaching' in Lewis, M. & Ellis, S. (ed. 2006) Phonics: practice, research and policy. UKLA/PCP

'Literature for the very young' in Understanding Children's books: a guide for educational professionals. Prue Goodwin (ed.) (2008) London: Sage

'Teaching Poetry in the Early Years' in Michael Lockwood (ed.) (in press 2011) Bringing Poetry Alive: a guide for classroom practice London: Sage

'Observing Primary Literacy' (in press 2011) London: Sage

Recent Conference papers:

July 2009 'Reading Aloud' with Prue Goodwin UKLA International Conference

September 2009 'Reading Aloud' with Prue Goodwin BERA

July 2010 ' Reading Aloud: teachers' text choices' with Prue Goodwin UKLA International Conference

September 2010 'Using phenomenography to understand young children's perceptions of poetry.' BERA

Enterprise activity; external roles and consultancy:

• Member of TDA National Advisory Group for ITT
• Chair of London and SE4 Regional ITT network.
• I act as consultant for validations and course re-writes for the Open University.
• External Examiner for primary curriculum English across ITT programmes at Sheffield Hallam University
• External Examiner for the Hertfordshire Partnership (GTP)
• Governor for infant school - monitoring literacy and carrying out performance management