Dr Laura Mazzoli Smith's Outputs (9)

Learning about research methods: A case study (2023)
Book Chapter
Gascoine, L., & Mazzoli Smith, L. (2023). Learning about research methods: A case study. In M. Pulsford, R. Morris, & R. Purves (Eds.), Understanding Education Studies: Critical Issues and New Directions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003296935

This chapter focusses on the pedagogy of teaching a research methods module in an undergraduate education studies programme. It presents a case study of a module that has been designed and taught with student-centred pedagogy in mind, underpinned by... Read More about Learning about research methods: A case study.

Discovering your philosophy of education through digital storytelling (2023)
Book Chapter
Ward, S., Mazzoli Smith, L., & Dragas, A. (2023). Discovering your philosophy of education through digital storytelling. In M. Pulsford, R. Morris, & R. Purves (Eds.), Understanding Education Studies: Critical Issues and New Directions. Routledge

Beyond Truth: A Pragmatist Approach to Narrative Pedagogy in Professional Learning for Healthcare Practitioners (2021)
Book Chapter
Mazzoli Smith, L. (2021). Beyond Truth: A Pragmatist Approach to Narrative Pedagogy in Professional Learning for Healthcare Practitioners. In A. Bainbridge, L. Formenti, & L. West (Eds.), Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research: An Ecology of Life and Learning (107-120). Brill Academic Publishers

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

Poverty and school processes: from equality of opportunity to relational justice (2018)
Book Chapter
Laing, K., Mazzoli Smith, L., & Todd, L. (2018). Poverty and school processes: from equality of opportunity to relational justice. In S. Gannon, R. Hattam, & W. Sawyer (Eds.), Resisting educational inequality : reframing policy and practice in schools serving vulnerable communities (131-139). Routledge

In this chapter, the authors analyse, through their evaluation of Children North East's audit process which aims to 'poverty proof the school day', the operation of poverty on the relational structures and associated actions within school. Their anal... Read More about Poverty and school processes: from equality of opportunity to relational justice.

Creating a transformational space through narrative: Looked after young people tell their life stories (2016)
Book Chapter
Mazzoli Smith, L., & Laing, K. (2016). Creating a transformational space through narrative: Looked after young people tell their life stories. In L. Formenti, & L. West (Eds.), Stories that make a difference : exploring the collective, social and political potential of narratives in adult education research. Pensa Multimedia

Educating Urban Youth: Fair or Foul? (2016)
Book Chapter
Laing, K., Mazzoli Smith, L., & Todd, L. (2016). Educating Urban Youth: Fair or Foul?. In S. Davoudi, & D. Bell (Eds.), Justice and fairness in the city (231-248). Policy Press

Family Beliefs and Practices around Academic Ability and Social Mobility; narratives of contradiction, continuity, and resistance (2014)
Book Chapter
Mazzoli Smith, L. (2014). Family Beliefs and Practices around Academic Ability and Social Mobility; narratives of contradiction, continuity, and resistance. In H. Reid, & L. West (Eds.), Constructing narratives of continuity and change (105-116). Routledge

Innovative Narrative Life History Interviews: The construction of academic giftedness in family context. (2013)
Book Chapter
Mazzoli Smith, L. (2013). Innovative Narrative Life History Interviews: The construction of academic giftedness in family context. In SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE Publications