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Dr Elise Alexander

PL Early Childhood Studies, Year Head (Y1)

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3789
Email : E.Alexander@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Education
Office location : Grove House 215

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Qualifications

PhD, MPhil, MEd, BEd (Hons)

About

I am interested in new approaches to teaching and assessment in the Early Childhood Studies programmes, and have recently introduced patchwork text to an HE 3 module. I am currently developing collaboarative assessments and interactive teaching approaches with other staff in team-taught modules.

Research Interests

My current research interests include:

  • Professional development in early years settings
  • Educational policy and its translation into practice.
  • Innovative methods of data collection in early years research

Enquiries from prospective PhD students who wish to do
research in any of these areas are welcome.

Research Projects Undertaken

Research Grant ESRC RES-061-23-0012:
Understanding Quality and Success in Early Years Settings: practitioners' perspectives

Publications

Michelle Cottle (2011) Quality in early years settings: government, research and practitioners’ perspectives, British Educaitonal Research Journal , i First Article, 1-20.

2010) A Successful Child: early years practitioners' understadnings of quality, Early Years, 30, 107-118.
Elise Alexander and Di Thomas (2004) Values Education at Greenfield Lower School, Forum, 46:2.
Elise Alexander and Phil Sandell (2003) Student Leadership: creating learning communities, Forum, 45:2.
Elise Alexander (2002) Childcare Workers: learning or Imitating?, Forum, 44:1.
Elise Alexander and Colleen McLaughlin (2004) Increasing Pupil Participation in Post-16 Learning (Essex), Essex County Council, Connexions and University of Cambridge.
Adams, S, Alexander, E, Drummond, M J and Moyles, J (2004) Inside the Foundation Stage: Recreating the Reception Year, London: Association of Teachers and Lecturers.
Colleen McLaughlin with Elise Alexander (2005) Reframing Personal, Social and Emotional Education: relationships, agency and dialogue , www.napce.org.uk.
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