Dr James Percival

Senior Lecturer in Education

School of Education, Humanities and Languages

jpercival@brookes.ac.uk

Role

After a ten year career as a Primary Teacher, teaching all age ranges in 4 Oxfordshire Primary Schools, I began a new career as a Teacher Trainer when I moved to Oxford Brookes University in January 2004. Initially I taught Mathematics for all the ITT programmes, supplemented by Professional Studies, but in subsequent years I have started to teach History and Research methods to both undergraduates and PGCE students. Recently I became course leader for the revalidated BA (Primary Education) programme, and I am very much looking forward to new challenges as course leader.

Teaching and supervision

Courses

Modules taught

Undergraduate

Introduction to Mathematics in the Primary Curriculum
Mathematics and ICT in the Primary Curriculum
Mathematics and ICT in the Primary Curriculum – Extending understanding

Postgraduate

PGCE – Mathematics and ICT
PGCE – History
BA Year 2 History
Research Methods

Research Students

Name	Thesis title	Completed
Hamish Chalmers	Translanguaging in linguistically super-diverse classrooms: the roles of students, teachers and parents and the effects on observable educational outcomes	2019

Research

My research interests reflect my academic background, namely Primary History and the Humanities, and also the History and Philosophy of Primary Education, Educational Research methods and Schools as organisations. I completed a doctorate at Warwick University, researching the efficacy of cross-curricular approaches to Primary History through a series of detailed case-studies.

Research interests

BA (PE) Course Leader
BA + PGCE History
BA Mathematics
Primary Humanities Education
History and Development of Primary Curriculum
History and Philosophy of Education

Publications

Journal articles

Percival J, 'Investigating Narrative Forms of History Pedagogy in Primary Teacher Education in England'
History Education Research Journal 15 (1) (2017) pp.160-172

ISSN: 1472-9474
Abstract Open Access on RADAR
Percival J, 'The Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Conservative Educational Policy'
FORUM 59 (2) (2017) pp.273-280

ISSN: 0963-8253
Abstract Published here Open Access on RADAR
Percival J, 'The Relevance of George Orwell: Reflections on the Teaching and Learning of History in a Knowledge Based Curriculum'
History Education Research Journal 13 (2) (2016) pp.16-22

ISSN: 1472-9474
Published here

Book chapters

Percival J, 'A Multiple Case-Study Design in Education to Investigate Historical Integrity and Curriculum Management in Three English Primary Schools' in , (2017)

Abstract

Published here

Other publications

Percival JW, 'The Efficacy of Cross-Curricularity: Can Primary Schools Retain the Integrity of History as part of an Integrated or Thematic Approach to the Curriculu', (2014)

Professional information

Consultancy

Supporting Male trainees – and survey of their experiences and needs. Presented at Knowledge transfer seminar
Trainees’ Perception of Primary Teaching as a Profession (Ed.D Module – unpublished)