Publications by category
Journal articles
Postlethwaite KC, Morgan A, Skinner N, Hetherington L, Mansour N, Wegerif R (In Press). Diversity in Science Education: integrating pupil characteristics, theoretical models and practical interventions in UK primary and secondary classrooms.
Hetherington LEJ, Chappell K, Ruck Keene H, Wren H, Cukurova M, Hathway C, Sotiriou S, Bogner F (In Press). International Educators’ Perspectives on the Purpose of Science Education and the Relationship between School Science and Creativity.
Research in Science and Technological Education Full text.
Hetherington L, Hardman M, Noakes J, Wegerif R (In Press). Making the case for a Material-Dialogic approach to Science Education.
Studies in Science Education Full text.
Chappell KA, Hetherington L, Ruck Keene H, Wren H, Alexopoulos A, Ben-Horin O, Nikolopoulos K, Robberstad J, Sotiriou S, Bogner F, et al (2019). Dialogue and materiality/embodiment in science|arts creative pedagogy: Their role and manifestation.
Thinking Skills and Creativity,
31, 296-322.
Abstract:
Dialogue and materiality/embodiment in science|arts creative pedagogy: Their role and manifestation
This paper responds to recent calls to explore the nuances of the interaction between the sciences, the arts and their inherent creativity to better understand their potential within teaching and learning. Building on previous arguments that the science-arts-creativity relationship is dialogic and relational, this research focuses on the question: How are dialogue and material/embodied activity manifested within creative pedagogy? We begin with a fusion of Bakhtinian-inspired and New-Materialist understandings of dialogue drawing out the importance of embodiment in order to revitalize how we articulate dialogue within creative educational practice. We then take on the challenge of a materialist diffractive analysis to conduct research which complements the theoretical framing and offers our outcomes in a way that appropriately makes the phenomena tangible. We present the outcomes of the diffractive analysis including the constitution of matter as well as meaning in the dialogic space; and the emergence of new assemblages of embodied teachers, students, ideas, and objects within transdisciplinary educational practice. We conclude by arguing for the benefits of diffractive analysis: that we have fore-fronted the entangled relationality of trans-disciplinary creative pedagogy; avoided bracketing out aspects of education that are often side-lined; opened out the space of pedagogical approaches that might be attempted; and begun to challenge what education is for. In so doing, the article aims to open up new ways for teachers, students and researchers to experience seeing, doing, feeling and researching science|arts creative pedagogy and provoke conversations about how this might develop in the future.
Abstract.
Full text.
Hetherington LEJ, Wegerif RB (2018). Developing a material-dialogic approach to pedagogy to guide science teacher education.
Journal of Education for Teaching,
44(3), 27-43.
Abstract:
Developing a material-dialogic approach to pedagogy to guide science teacher education
Dialogic pedagogy is being promoted in science teacher education but the literature on dialogic pedagogy tends to focus on explicit voices, and so runs the risk of overlooking the important role that material objects often play in science education. In this paper we use the findings of a teacher survey and classroom case study to argue that there is a gap in the way that science teachers think about the role of materials and that this could be addressed by changes in the theory base of teacher training, augmenting the current constructivist and dialogic theory with the addition of new materialism in the form of Barad’s ‘Agential Realism’. Our findings suggests that science teachers do not regularly explicitly consider the relationship between the material resources they deploy and the dialogic learning taking place. We argue that science teacher training and professional development should pay more attention to the material-dialogic relationships in the learning that emerges in science classrooms.
Abstract.
Full text.
Mansour N, Wegerif R, Skinner N, Postlethwaite K, Hetherington L (2015). Investigating and promoting trainee science teachers’ conceptual change of the nature of science with digital dialogue games “InterLoc”.
Research in Science Education Full text.
Hetherington LEJ (2013). Complexity Thinking and Methodology: the Potential of ‘Complex Case Study’ for Educational Research.
Complicity: an international journal of complexity theory and education,
10(1/2), 71-85.
Abstract:
Complexity Thinking and Methodology: the Potential of ‘Complex Case Study’ for Educational Research
Complexity theories have in common perspectives that challenge linear methodologies and views of causality, but in educational research, relatively little has been written explicitly exploring the implications of complexity theoretical perspectives for educational research methodology in general and case study in particular. In this paper, I offer a rationale for case study as a research approach that embodies complexity, and explore the implications of a ‘complexity thinking’ stance for the conduct of case study research that distinguish it from other approaches to case study. A complexity theoretical framework rooted in the key concepts of emergence and complexity reduction, blended using a both/and logic, is used to develop the argument that case study enables the researcher to balance the open-ended, non-linear sensitivities of complexity thinking with the reduction in complexity inherent in making methodological choices. The potential of this approach is illustrated using examples drawn from a complexity theoretical research study into curriculum change.
Abstract.
Full text.
Hetherington LEJ (2012). Enmeshing Interruption in Assessment of
Teacher Education: Response to Bernard Ricca.
Complicity: an international journal of complexity in education,
9(2), 62-66.
Author URL.
Full text.
Hetherington L (2010). Less interested after lessons? Report on a small-scale research study into 12- to 13-year-old students’ attitudes to earth science.
School Science Review,
91(337), 59-65.
Abstract:
Less interested after lessons? Report on a small-scale research study into 12- to 13-year-old students’ attitudes to earth science
Results of a small-scale research study conducted with year 8 (ages 12–13) students suggest that although these students have generally positive attitudes towards earth science, girls tend to be less interested in it than boys. Interest in earth science was found to separate into two dominant factors, labelled ‘scientific’ and ‘people and change’, with the greatest gender discrepancy for the scientific factor. Results also showed that interest decreased after studying ‘The rock cycle’ topic. It is suggested that this could result from students’ perception of repetition in the curriculum: greater cross-curricular communication in the new key stage 3 (ages 11–14) curriculum may help to address this.
Abstract.
Hetherington, L. (2007). Science: How does it work in schools?. Into Teaching, 17
Hetherington, L. (2007). Where next? Career options. Into Teaching, 20
Chapters
Hardman M, Riordan J-P, Hetherington L (2021). A Material-dialogic Perspective on Powerful Knowledge and Matter within a Science Classroom. In Hudson B, Gericke N, Olin--Scheller C, Stolare M (Eds.) International Perspectives on Knowledge and Curriculum: Epistemic Quality across School Subjects, London: Bloomsbury.
Hetherington L, Chappell K, Ruck Keene H, Wren H (2020). Creative Pedagogy and Environmental Responsibility: a Diffractive Analysis of an Intra-Active Science|Arts Practice. In Burnard P, Colucci-Gray L (Eds.)
Why Science and Art Creativities Matter Re-configuring Steam for Future-making Education, Leiden: Brill - Sense, 271-299.
Abstract:
Creative Pedagogy and Environmental Responsibility: a Diffractive Analysis of an Intra-Active Science|Arts Practice
Abstract.
Full text.
Wegerif R, Postlethwaite KP, Skinner N, Mansour N, Morgan A, Hetherington LEJ (2013). Dialogic Science Education for Diversity. In Mansour N, Wegerif R (Eds.) Science Education for Diversity: Theory and Practice, Springer.
Conferences
Hetherington LEJ (2012). The challenge of assessment in an emergent curriculum: a case study of teachers’ responses. AERA 2012. 12th - 19th Apr 2012.
Hetherington LEJ (2011). Enacting Curriculum: a Complexity Perspective on Teachers’ Descriptions and Interactions. AERA 2011. 8th - 12th Apr 2011.
Hetherington L (2009). Researching the Emerging Curriculum: is there a place for a Pedagogy of Emergence?. 3rd Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. 7th - 10th Sep 2009.
Abstract:
Researching the Emerging Curriculum: is there a place for a Pedagogy of Emergence?
Abstract.
Internet publications
Hetherington, L. (2007). Views of Planet Earth: Systems Thinking in Earth Science Education Pilot Study.
Publications by year
In Press
Postlethwaite KC, Morgan A, Skinner N, Hetherington L, Mansour N, Wegerif R (In Press). Diversity in Science Education: integrating pupil characteristics, theoretical models and practical interventions in UK primary and secondary classrooms.
Hetherington LEJ, Chappell K, Ruck Keene H, Wren H, Cukurova M, Hathway C, Sotiriou S, Bogner F (In Press). International Educators’ Perspectives on the Purpose of Science Education and the Relationship between School Science and Creativity.
Research in Science and Technological Education Full text.
Hetherington L, Hardman M, Noakes J, Wegerif R (In Press). Making the case for a Material-Dialogic approach to Science Education.
Studies in Science Education Full text.
2021
Hardman M, Riordan J-P, Hetherington L (2021). A Material-dialogic Perspective on Powerful Knowledge and Matter within a Science Classroom. In Hudson B, Gericke N, Olin--Scheller C, Stolare M (Eds.) International Perspectives on Knowledge and Curriculum: Epistemic Quality across School Subjects, London: Bloomsbury.
2020
Hetherington L, Chappell K, Ruck Keene H, Wren H (2020). Creative Pedagogy and Environmental Responsibility: a Diffractive Analysis of an Intra-Active Science|Arts Practice. In Burnard P, Colucci-Gray L (Eds.)
Why Science and Art Creativities Matter Re-configuring Steam for Future-making Education, Leiden: Brill - Sense, 271-299.
Abstract:
Creative Pedagogy and Environmental Responsibility: a Diffractive Analysis of an Intra-Active Science|Arts Practice
Abstract.
Full text.
2019
McKerr L (2019). Birth, Death and Survival: an Arendtian analysis of pre-service teacher identity on the PGCE route.
Abstract:
Birth, Death and Survival: an Arendtian analysis of pre-service teacher identity on the PGCE route
This research focuses on the identity development of pre-service teachers on a one-year, university-based teacher education route (PGCE) in England. In the English education system, concerns have been raised about many aspects impacting pre-service teachers during their PGCE and beyond: a neoliberal, market-driven education system; high levels of performativity and accountability within the teaching profession, and the lack of attention to the process of identity formation within teacher education.
This study is significant in that it provides a rationale for pre-service teacher identity formation to be considered in its own right. By bringing an Arendtian framework to the research, it offers pre-service teachers an opportunity to think about themselves, and the influences that act upon their professional identity, in a new way. As a result of this research, it is intended that pre-service teachers will be better able to deal with the challenges that face them as beginning teachers, and that teacher education will embed identity development as an evolving process in their programmes.
This study is situated within a theoretically enriched empirical approach. The methodology was driven using Arendtian theory, specifically the use of Arendt’s ‘conditions’ related to the concepts of birth, death, survival, worldliness, plurality and self-development. This qualitative research gathered data from three PGCE pre-service teachers as they ‘became’ teachers. Over the period of their PGCE year, this included an online introductory life story to gather insights into their awareness of a teacher identity, a face-to-face semi-structured interview to explore pre-service teachers’ awareness of their developing teacher identity, and a critical incident interview, reflecting on the key episodes that impacted on how they viewed themselves as teachers. The data was analysed using Arendt’s ‘conditions’, and presented as the story of three pre-service teachers.
The outcomes of this study are that pre-service teachers felt that the research methodology allowed them to become more aware of, and interrogate, their identity; the Arendtian framework was an ‘identifier’ that denoted the depth of emotion, the impact of events faced during their teaching experience, and how they successfully resolved these issues. Arendt’s ‘conditions’ were interpreted slightly differently by each pre-service teacher but, combined with the critical incident timeline, acted as a driver for an emergent, dialogical and relational approach to pre-service teacher identity.
Abstract.
Full text.
Chappell KA, Hetherington L, Ruck Keene H, Wren H, Alexopoulos A, Ben-Horin O, Nikolopoulos K, Robberstad J, Sotiriou S, Bogner F, et al (2019). Dialogue and materiality/embodiment in science|arts creative pedagogy: Their role and manifestation.
Thinking Skills and Creativity,
31, 296-322.
Abstract:
Dialogue and materiality/embodiment in science|arts creative pedagogy: Their role and manifestation
This paper responds to recent calls to explore the nuances of the interaction between the sciences, the arts and their inherent creativity to better understand their potential within teaching and learning. Building on previous arguments that the science-arts-creativity relationship is dialogic and relational, this research focuses on the question: How are dialogue and material/embodied activity manifested within creative pedagogy? We begin with a fusion of Bakhtinian-inspired and New-Materialist understandings of dialogue drawing out the importance of embodiment in order to revitalize how we articulate dialogue within creative educational practice. We then take on the challenge of a materialist diffractive analysis to conduct research which complements the theoretical framing and offers our outcomes in a way that appropriately makes the phenomena tangible. We present the outcomes of the diffractive analysis including the constitution of matter as well as meaning in the dialogic space; and the emergence of new assemblages of embodied teachers, students, ideas, and objects within transdisciplinary educational practice. We conclude by arguing for the benefits of diffractive analysis: that we have fore-fronted the entangled relationality of trans-disciplinary creative pedagogy; avoided bracketing out aspects of education that are often side-lined; opened out the space of pedagogical approaches that might be attempted; and begun to challenge what education is for. In so doing, the article aims to open up new ways for teachers, students and researchers to experience seeing, doing, feeling and researching science|arts creative pedagogy and provoke conversations about how this might develop in the future.
Abstract.
Full text.
2018
Hetherington LEJ, Wegerif RB (2018). Developing a material-dialogic approach to pedagogy to guide science teacher education.
Journal of Education for Teaching,
44(3), 27-43.
Abstract:
Developing a material-dialogic approach to pedagogy to guide science teacher education
Dialogic pedagogy is being promoted in science teacher education but the literature on dialogic pedagogy tends to focus on explicit voices, and so runs the risk of overlooking the important role that material objects often play in science education. In this paper we use the findings of a teacher survey and classroom case study to argue that there is a gap in the way that science teachers think about the role of materials and that this could be addressed by changes in the theory base of teacher training, augmenting the current constructivist and dialogic theory with the addition of new materialism in the form of Barad’s ‘Agential Realism’. Our findings suggests that science teachers do not regularly explicitly consider the relationship between the material resources they deploy and the dialogic learning taking place. We argue that science teacher training and professional development should pay more attention to the material-dialogic relationships in the learning that emerges in science classrooms.
Abstract.
Full text.
2015
Mansour N, Wegerif R, Skinner N, Postlethwaite K, Hetherington L (2015). Investigating and promoting trainee science teachers’ conceptual change of the nature of science with digital dialogue games “InterLoc”.
Research in Science Education Full text.
2013
Hetherington LEJ (2013). Complexity Thinking and Methodology: the Potential of ‘Complex Case Study’ for Educational Research.
Complicity: an international journal of complexity theory and education,
10(1/2), 71-85.
Abstract:
Complexity Thinking and Methodology: the Potential of ‘Complex Case Study’ for Educational Research
Complexity theories have in common perspectives that challenge linear methodologies and views of causality, but in educational research, relatively little has been written explicitly exploring the implications of complexity theoretical perspectives for educational research methodology in general and case study in particular. In this paper, I offer a rationale for case study as a research approach that embodies complexity, and explore the implications of a ‘complexity thinking’ stance for the conduct of case study research that distinguish it from other approaches to case study. A complexity theoretical framework rooted in the key concepts of emergence and complexity reduction, blended using a both/and logic, is used to develop the argument that case study enables the researcher to balance the open-ended, non-linear sensitivities of complexity thinking with the reduction in complexity inherent in making methodological choices. The potential of this approach is illustrated using examples drawn from a complexity theoretical research study into curriculum change.
Abstract.
Full text.
Wegerif R, Postlethwaite KP, Skinner N, Mansour N, Morgan A, Hetherington LEJ (2013). Dialogic Science Education for Diversity. In Mansour N, Wegerif R (Eds.) Science Education for Diversity: Theory and Practice, Springer.
2012
Hetherington LEJ (2012). Enmeshing Interruption in Assessment of
Teacher Education: Response to Bernard Ricca.
Complicity: an international journal of complexity in education,
9(2), 62-66.
Author URL.
Full text.
Hetherington LEJ (2012). The challenge of assessment in an emergent curriculum: a case study of teachers’ responses. AERA 2012. 12th - 19th Apr 2012.
2011
Hetherington LEJ (2011). Enacting Curriculum: a Complexity Perspective on Teachers’ Descriptions and Interactions. AERA 2011. 8th - 12th Apr 2011.
2010
Hetherington L (2010). Less interested after lessons? Report on a small-scale research study into 12- to 13-year-old students’ attitudes to earth science.
School Science Review,
91(337), 59-65.
Abstract:
Less interested after lessons? Report on a small-scale research study into 12- to 13-year-old students’ attitudes to earth science
Results of a small-scale research study conducted with year 8 (ages 12–13) students suggest that although these students have generally positive attitudes towards earth science, girls tend to be less interested in it than boys. Interest in earth science was found to separate into two dominant factors, labelled ‘scientific’ and ‘people and change’, with the greatest gender discrepancy for the scientific factor. Results also showed that interest decreased after studying ‘The rock cycle’ topic. It is suggested that this could result from students’ perception of repetition in the curriculum: greater cross-curricular communication in the new key stage 3 (ages 11–14) curriculum may help to address this.
Abstract.
2009
Hetherington L (2009). Researching the Emerging Curriculum: is there a place for a Pedagogy of Emergence?. 3rd Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. 7th - 10th Sep 2009.
Abstract:
Researching the Emerging Curriculum: is there a place for a Pedagogy of Emergence?
Abstract.
2007
Hetherington, L. (2007). Science: How does it work in schools?. Into Teaching, 17
Hetherington, L. (2007). Views of Planet Earth: Systems Thinking in Earth Science Education Pilot Study.
Hetherington, L. (2007). Where next? Career options. Into Teaching, 20
