Dr Laura Mazzoli Smith's Outputs (4)

The ability trap: reductionist theorising about academic ability and the ramifications for education policy and school-based practice (2020)
Journal Article
Mazzoli Smith, L. (2021). The ability trap: reductionist theorising about academic ability and the ramifications for education policy and school-based practice. Cambridge Journal of Education, 51(1), 85-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764x.2020.1782351

The paper argues that there is a reductive logic inherent in conceptualisations of academic ability in some Western education research as currently configured. Effective interrogation of this concept necessitates consideration across relevant fields... Read More about The ability trap: reductionist theorising about academic ability and the ramifications for education policy and school-based practice.

Diversifying Discourses of Progression to UK Higher Education Through Narrative Approaches (2020)
Book Chapter
Approaches. In H. Wright, & M. R. Høyen (Eds.), Discourses We Live By: Narratives of Educational and Social Endeavour (549-567). Open Book Publishers Cambridge. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0203

Diversifying the discourse of progression to higher education: Digital storytelling methodology in widening participation practice (2020)
Journal Article
Mazzoli Smith, L. (2020). Diversifying the discourse of progression to higher education: Digital storytelling methodology in widening participation practice. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 22(1), 79-94. https://doi.org/10.5456/wpll.22.1.79

Paradigmatic Shifts in Doctoral Research: Reflections Using Uncomfortable Reflexivity and Pragmatism (2020)
Journal Article
Woodley, H., & Mazzoli Smith, L. (2020). Paradigmatic Shifts in Doctoral Research: Reflections Using Uncomfortable Reflexivity and Pragmatism. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19, Article 160940692090753. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406920907533

This article discusses a doctoral study, completed by a then full-time teacher in a Pupil Referral Unit in the north of England, which shifted from a mixed-methods action research project to one that was largely autoethnographic in approach. This inc... Read More about Paradigmatic Shifts in Doctoral Research: Reflections Using Uncomfortable Reflexivity and Pragmatism.