[ Qualifications ]
[ Principal Interests ] [ Research
Supervision ]
[ Biographical
Note ] [ Current
and Recent Research ] [ Publications ]
Qualifications
- BA(hons) Philosophy/Theology (Oxford
University)
- MEd (Edinburgh)
- PGDE (Primary) (Moray House)
- PGDSpLD (Edinburgh)
- PhD (Edinburgh)
Principal Interests
- Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
- Multi-disciplinary approaches to understanding disruptive behaviour
- School Disaffection
- Philosophy and educational research
Research
Supervision
I am keen
to supervise research under the headings above. I
currently supervise doctoral students in the following
areas:
- Kelly Love: Liberated Learning: A Dialogic, Trans-national Investigation of Culture and Creation in Arts-Based Educational Communities
- James
MacAllister: The quantity, nature
and effectiveness of programmes/courses relating
to understanding, improving and positively influencing
discipline and behaviour in schools in initial
teacher education (ITE) / What
should Discipline in Schools be for?
- Adrian Martinez: Will Socratic
Dialogue help counter Foucauldian power relations
in relation to 'citizenship discources' between
teachers and students?
- Raheleh Mireslami: Critical
thinking as a method of education
- Frances Ranaldi: Investigating
the Implications of the Curriculum Accessibility
for Students with Dyslexia in Craft and Design
Biographical
Note
I studied
Philosophy and Theology at Oxford University before
working as a residential care worker in a therapeutic
community in Warwickshire. On returning to Edinburgh
I continued to pursue academic study whilst working
first as a care worker and later as a teacher in
units and schools for young people described as having
social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD).
My PhD, completed in 2005, mapped the separate provision
available in Scotland for these young people, and
explored the experiences of a group of young people
of being educated separately. In 2004 I took up a
post as lecturer in primary education and SEBD at
Edinburgh. I co-ordinate the Masters in Pastoral
Care and Behaviour Support and am currently Director
of postgraduate
studies. My undergraduate teaching
focuses on the application of a range of theoretical
perspectives to further understanding of disaffected
and disruptive behaviour in schools.
Current and Recent Research
Scottish Government. Research into Behaviour in Scottish Schools 2009, (Research Assistant).
Department of Children Schools and Families. Outcomes for Excluded Pupils 2006-2009, (Co-Investigator).
ESRC. Knowledge Exchange Across Settings 2008. Co-ordinator - of a project to
facilitate communication between mainstream and special schools.
DTRF. Disabled Students in Higher Education 2007/8, with Dr Katie Cebula. A project exploring the experiences of students with disabilities on placement.
ESRC TRLP project, 'Epistemology of Educational Research' 2007.
Publications
Selected
Publications:
Pirrie, A., MacLeod, G., Cullen, M.-A. and McCluskey,
G., 2009 Where Next? for pupils excluded from special
schools and PRUs Final Report for the DCSF.
Griffiths,
M. and MacLeod, G., 2008 Personal Narratives and
Policy: Never the Twain?
Journal of Philosophy of
Education, Vol. 42 No. S1, pp. 121-143.
MacLeod, G., 2007
Are we nearly there yet? Curriculum, relationships and disaffected
pupils
The International Journal of School Disaffection (1478-8497), Vol. 5,
pp. 29-36.
MacLeod, G., 2006
Bad, mad or sad: constructions of young people in trouble
and implications for interventions
Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, Vol.
11(3), pp. 155-167.
MacLeod, G., 2006
The place of separate provision in a policy climate of inclusion
Journal
of Research in Special Educational Needs - online journal, Vol. 6(3), pp.
125-133.
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