Dr James Percival

Senior Lecturer in Education

School of Education

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Phone number: +44 (0)1865 488364

Email: jpercival@brookes.ac.uk

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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.

I have a wide range of interests including athletics:

http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=19486

Music, photography and the arts in general.

Teaching

Undergraduate

U71110 – An Introduction to Mathematics in the Primary Curriculum
U71124 – Mathematics and ICT in the Primary Curriculum
U71134 – Mathematics and ICT in the Primary Curriculum – Extending understanding

Postgraduate

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

Research

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

Research and consultancy projects

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Trainees’ Perception of Primary Teaching as a Profession (Ed.D Module – unpublished)

Professional information

Other experience

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.

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