Dr Mark Peart
- Lecturer in Teacher Education (Primary with specialism in Technologies) (School of Education)
email:
Mark.Peart@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
Biography
Mark Peart is a lecturer in Primary School Education with specialism in Digital Technologies at the University of Glasgow. He has previous taught and supervised dissertations at the University of Extremadura (Spain). In this University, he obtained his undergraduate in Primary School Teaching, his MSc in Research in Teacher Training and ICT. It is also where he achieved his PhD in Education, exploring the development of digital and socio-civic skills for promoting digital citizenship education and youth participation.
In parallel to achieving his degrees, he has nearly 10 years experience as a Primary School Teacher working with children aged 6 to 12 years old, while also assuming leadership roles related to Digital Education and CPD for teachers. Also, he has ample experience related to volunteering and promoting youth participation, having dedicated more than 15 years to working with non-formal education and NGO youth sections.
He is an emerging academic and researcher, gaining experience ad producing scientific outputs in the field of Education. Currently, he has several papers, published in high-ranking journals and ample portfolio in international conferences. Ha has also participated as a reviewer in several indexed journals.
His current research focuses on digital education, active methodologies in Primary School and the pedagogical application of technologies. In addition to the development of digital literacy, competences and skills and how they relate to wider social and educational context, transformative education, social justice education and the promotion of Digital Citizenship education.
Supervision
Mark is looking to supervise topics related to his research interests in:
- Digital Citizenship
- Digital literacies and skills development
- Active methodologies in Primary School Education
- Youth Participation
- Non-formal education
Teaching
Mark is part of the teaching team for the MEDUC course:
- Fundamentals of Education 1B
- Education & Society 3
He will also be supervising student's dissertations.
Professional activities & recognition
Professional & learned societies
- 2024: Member, Scottish Educational Research Association
- 2023: Member, British Educational Research Association
- 2023: Member, Technology, Pedagogy and Education Association
- 2020 - 2023: Member, Spanish Pedagogical Society
- 2020 - 2023: Member, Interuniversity Network for Educational Technology (Spain)
Selected international presentations
- 2022: European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) (Yerevan, Armenia)
- 2021: XVII International Conference on Pedagogy (Madrid, Spain)
- 2021: European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) (Geneva, Switzerland)
- 2019: XIX International Conference on Educational Research (Madrid, Spain)
- 2019: XXVII Educational Technology University Conference (JUTE) (Santander, Spain)
- 2018: European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) (Bolzano, Italy)
- 2018: IX Conference of Young Researchers of Extremadura (Badajoz, Spain)
- 2018: European Association on Educational Research Summer School (Brno, Czech Republic)
- 2018: 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Distance Learning (Silesia, Poland)
- 2017: European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- 2017: XXV Educational Technology University Conference (JUTE) (Burgos, Spain)
- 2014: 6th International Conference on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Distance Learning (Silesia, Poland)
- 2014: XVII International Conference on Education and Technology (EDUTEC) (Cordoba, Spain)