Dr Carrie Winstanley

Job Title: Principal Lecturer - Education Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3803 Email Address: C.Winstanley@roehampton.ac.uk

Current position:

I currently work with undergraduate and postgraduate students teaching a range of education courses. These include general social psychology, philosophy and history of education and more specific work concerning children with different educational needs (particularly high ability and learning difficulties),and museum and gallery education.
I am the Subject Leader for Education and a member of the Centre for Research on Education Policy, Professionalism and Pedagogy.

Work with children and families:

I have a decade of experience of teaching in schools, including experience in the maintained, independent and international sectors. I continue to run family workshops in museums and galleries, as well as children’s activities predominantly for organisations providing for more able children.

Research Interests & Expertise

I am particularly interested in:

• ethics of provision for the able;

• critical evaluation of classroom practice for highly able children;

• museum and gallery education;

• learning and teaching in schools and Higher Education;

Publications

Smith, C. (ed) (2005) Inequity in equity, in Smith, C. (ed) Including the Gifted and Talented, London: Routledge, Including the Gifted and Talented, 22-40.

Gereluk, D. and Peat, J. (2005) Keeping hold of them: Retention of first year students, Education Research Conference.

(2004) Exceptionally Gifted Children, British Journal of Educational Studies Vol. 52, No.4, December., pp. 450-455.

(2004) Too Clever By Half: What is it fair to do for the gifted? Staffs: Trentham Books, , 1-190.

L. Gearon and D. Gereluk (2004) What is Human Rights Education?, European Education Research Association Conference, Crete.

(2003) Creating a Classroom Museum, Primary History, Historical Association, 35, 13-14.

(2003) Dually exceptional: giftedness and learning disability, Gifted and Talented Update , 7: September, 10.

D. Montgomery, (ed) (2003) Gifted Children with Hearing Impairments , Gifted Children with Special Educational Needs: Double Exceptionalities, 110-128.

(2003) Learning Through Museums and Galleries, Special edition of Primary History, Historical Association , 35: Autumn, 1-35.

(2003) Where in the World, Gifted and Talented Update, 9:November, 3.

(2002) Breaking down the barriers: improving access to museums and galleries, British Education Research Association, Exeter, September 12.

(2002) Elitism, Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, Institute of Education, London University, June 12.

(2002) Meeting the needs of the most able in science, Cambridge, Homerton, (Faculty of Education) Seminar Series, Able Pupils with Special Educational Needs, October 5.

(2002) Thinking Together: education students and the teaching of thinking, International Conference on Thinking, Harrogate, June 25.

(2002) What is it fair to do for gifted pupils, Politics, Philosophy and Education Conference, Madison: University of Wisconsin, November 13.

Membership of Professional Bodies

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts;
Member of the Higher Education Academy; Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain;
Philosophy of Education (USA);
British Education Research Association;
National Academy of Gifted and Talented Youth;

Consultancy Expertise

I am able to deliver In-Service sessions for teachers on a variety of subjects, with an appropriate mix of useful practical ideas and strong theoretical grounding. I particularly enjoy visiting schools where the needs of able pupils (with and without learning problems) are being addressed.

I have led teams undertaking evaluations of museum work and reviewing professional development for teachers of the able. I have also been involved with the development of the Classroom Quality Standards for the gifted and talented education strategy.