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Dr Claire Pescott
@pesky1975.bsky.social
• Lecturer • USW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿•
• PGCE Primary Course Leader •
• Academic • Writer • Research interests 🤓 •••
• Childhood, Identity & Social Media, CfW and Pedagogy, Creative Methodologies •
• All opinions are my own 🦩•
Pleased to share my latest publication exploring being and becoming in children’s digital spaces. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Being and becoming in children’s digital spaces: A portal into their social media use - Claire Kathryn Pescott, 2025
This qualitative study employed the theoretical lens of the social and cultural concept of childhood, exploring the notion of being and becoming in relation to ...
journals.sagepub.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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The Focus on Practice collection provides short, academically rigorous articles that can inform educational practice, with ideas from Wales and around the world.

We encourage contributions from practitioners and researchers at all stages of their career.

Articles: journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/issue/25...
March 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Our USW Education 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 academic reading group launched this evening. Culshaw’s (2019) paper exploring “struggling” teachers perceptions through collaging was discussed. Interesting debate around insider/outsider positionality, the difficulty of defining “struggling”and visual/verbal data analysis 🧐🤓.
January 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
January skyscape 🧡💜
January 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Interested in studying the MA SEN/ALN (Autism) course that I lead? Join us on the 5th Feb to find out more.

www.southwales.ac.uk/events/event...
Event Details | Postgraduate Open Evening - University of South WalesSubmit
www.southwales.ac.uk
January 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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📝 NEW BERA BLOG SPECIAL ISSUE

Revisiting the Children’s Plan: Towards a new manifesto for tackling early years inequality
Guest edited by Claudine Bowyer-Crane

Read special issue here: bera.ac.uk/blog-special...
January 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Looks a great read…need to add this to my list 📕
January 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Very proud day 🎓🙌🏻 my first cohort of PGCE students graduated today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. 📸of a few I managed to catch and moi with the mace!
January 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Pleased to contribute to special issue of WJE on 25 yrs of devolved education in Wales journal.uwp.co.uk/wje/issue/41... @profgaryb.bsky.social @andrewjamdavies.bsky.social @proftomcrick.com
Wales Journal of Education | Issue: Issue: 2(26) Twenty-Five Years of Devolved Education in Wales: A Review (2024) Janeway-Logo-Final
journal.uwp.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 7:13 AM
I was interviewed for the guardian yesterday. Internet safety in schools needs to move beyond the rhetoric of Stranger Danger.

www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
‘Teenage girls are feeling vulnerable’: fears grow over online beauty filters
Studies suggest children are having their self-esteem harmed by filters that ape the effects of cosmetic surgery
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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I'm hunting down every last one of you lovely ITE / ITT folk. I'm mainly relying on people's bios to determine who might want to be included here, so if I've missed you, let me know and I will update this list.

Reposts appreciated 👍

go.bsky.app/FZXkStn
November 18, 2024 at 1:10 PM