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Compassionate inquiry: digital storytelling and the ethics of care (2024)
Journal Article
Ward, S., Dragas, T., Mazzoli Smith, L., Ross, K., & Miao, Z. (online). Compassionate inquiry: digital storytelling and the ethics of care. Teaching in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2024.2394600

In this paper we identify the use of Digital Storytelling (DS) as a mode of pedagogy aligned with an ethics of care. We consider how DS, as summative assessment, may foreground care ethics such as attentiveness, responsiveness, and trust. Our interes... Read More about Compassionate inquiry: digital storytelling and the ethics of care.

Exploring the religious and spiritual trajectory of cathedral choristers in England (2023)
Journal Article
Dong, L., & Ward, S. (2023). Exploring the religious and spiritual trajectory of cathedral choristers in England. Journal of Beliefs and Values, 44(4), 502-516. https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2023.2267928

The present paper reports findings from interviews with thirty ex-choristers from cathedrals and collegiate chapels in England, aged from eighteen to eighty. These interviews explored choristers’ religious commitments before entering choir school and... Read More about Exploring the religious and spiritual trajectory of cathedral choristers in England.

The Benefits of Music Workshop Participation for Pupils’ Wellbeing and Social Capital: The In2 Music Project Evaluation (2021)
Journal Article
Ward, S., James, S., James, K., Brown, C., Kokotsaki, D., & Wigham, J. (2023). The Benefits of Music Workshop Participation for Pupils’ Wellbeing and Social Capital: The In2 Music Project Evaluation. Arts Education Policy Review, 124(1), 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1903640

This paper reports on the evaluation of the In2 music project in Darlington, England. The project ran for seven weeks from January – March 2020 and involved Year 6 pupils from four primary schools (n = 103) and Year 7 pupils from one secondary school... Read More about The Benefits of Music Workshop Participation for Pupils’ Wellbeing and Social Capital: The In2 Music Project Evaluation.

Education at the End of History: A Response to Francis Fukuyama (2020)
Journal Article
Ward, S. (2021). Education at the End of History: A Response to Francis Fukuyama. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53(2), 160-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1767073

By 1989, fascism had long been defeated in Europe, and reforms in the Soviet Union appeared to signify the collapse of communist ideology, prompting Francis Fukuyama to famously declare the ‘end of history’. Since then, neoliberalism has been rolled... Read More about Education at the End of History: A Response to Francis Fukuyama.

The Play is a Prison: the discourse of Prison Shakespeare (2018)
Journal Article
Ward, S., & Connolly, R. (2020). The Play is a Prison: the discourse of Prison Shakespeare. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 40(2), 128-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2018.1560999

The relationship between Shakespeare and prison was brought into sharp focus during Shakespeare’s recent quad-centenary with a succession of works exploring Shakespeare’s value for the prison population. In this paper, we take this spike in activity... Read More about The Play is a Prison: the discourse of Prison Shakespeare.

Boal, Theatre in Education and the Promotion of Fundamental British Values (2018)
Journal Article
Ward, S. (2018). Boal, Theatre in Education and the Promotion of Fundamental British Values. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 16(3), 38-67

This paper offers a critical analysis of the imposition of Fundamental British Values (FBVs) in schools and nurseries as part of Prevent, the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy, and compares the rationale of this policy with the motivation for Theatre i... Read More about Boal, Theatre in Education and the Promotion of Fundamental British Values.

In Search of Progress: Female Academics after Jane Eyre (2018)
Journal Article
Ward, S. (2018). In Search of Progress: Female Academics after Jane Eyre. Other Education, 7(2), 55-74

Charlotte Brontë’s novel about a female educator, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. This current paper asks: what progress has been enjoyed by female academics since Charlotte’s day? Although women are no longer disbarred from academia, there is inte... Read More about In Search of Progress: Female Academics after Jane Eyre.