Centre for Transformative Change in Schools (CenTCS)

This theme considers questions such as:

  • What does transformative teaching look like in different national/school contexts, subject areas, developmental levels?
  • How do teachers use agency to enact transformative teaching?
  • What roles do/can place-responsiveness and community connectedness play in transformative teaching?
  • What variations exist in how different teachers enact transformative teaching and what can we learn from these variations?

Reimagining collective learning: Shared expertise for inclusive schools

Aileen Kennedy, Utkun Aydin (co-leads), Brianna L. Kennedy, Cristina Mio, Ruth Unsworth

Keywords: professional learning; workforce redesign; team-based expertise; inclusive education

Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning (SDLL): Embedding Multilingualism into Learning for Sustainability

Lavinia Hirsu (lead), Alison Phipps, Dobrochna Futro, Pinar Aksu, Fhiona Mackay, Karen Faulds (SCILT), Jane Catlin (University of Strathclyde)

Keywords: multilingualism, language learning, sustainability, arts-based 

 

Fostering international development of research-practice partnerships

Brianna L. Kennedy (lead), Paula Arce-Trigatti (NNERP)

Keywords: Research-Practice Partnerships (RPPs), knowledge mobilisation, cross-institutional collaboration, international research networks

 

Teachers and communities

Brianna L. Kennedy (lead), Rhona Brown

Keywords: culturally responsive teaching; funds of knowledge; communities; teacher professional learning; social justice

School exclusion and situated instructional belonging

Brianna L. Kennedy (lead)

Keywords: school exclusion; belonging; disengaged youth; NEET 

 

Neurodiversity in Scottish schools and beyond

Rebecca Wood (lead), Lauren Boath, Sofia Farzana (SEMA)

Keywords: neurodiversity; inclusion; intersectionality

 

How I Communicate

Rebecca Wood (lead), David Mason (King's College London) , Elaine McGreevy (Independent Speech and Language Therapist), Shanshan Xu

Keywords: communication; minimally-speaking; non-speaking; autism

 

2025/26 Project Stream 3 - Learning Futures

Aileen Kennedy (lead), Utkun Aydin (co-lead), Cristina Mio, Mark Peart, Ruth Unsworth, Brianna L. Kennedy

Keywords: Educational futures; onto epistemology; research methods; research-practice partnerships

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