Helen Knowler

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  • Associate Professor, UCL

I am an Associate Professor, based in UCL’s Arena Centre for Research Based Education. I lead the Eugenics Legacy Education Project (ELEP) which focuses on developing the educational outcomes of UCL's Eugenics Inquiry Report. I collaborate with colleagues across UCL's eleven faculties to explore the ways that UCL’s eugenics history and resources can be incorporated into different disciplinary contexts. I collaborate with a wide range of colleagues in a diverse range of roles to think about how we teach this difficult knowledge.

My teaching expertise and research interests are closely aligned and broadly relate to Inclusive Education. I am interested in the role of educators in developing inclusive education in their own contexts and the ways that professional support and professional learning act as levers for this development. More recently I have been working on the ways that ‘difficult knowledge’ is taught in higher education contexts and how this links to inclusion and belonging in teaching and learning spaces. I am interested in the role of reparative approaches to teaching and learning in the context of institutional legacies and histories of harm and develop resources that educators can use in their own classrooms.

Experience

  • 2009–present
    Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Bristol
  • 2006–2009
    Programme Director/Lecturer , University of Plymouth
  • 2005–2006
    Advisory Teacher (SEBD) , Devon Local Authority
  • 1994–2006
    Classroom Teacher , Primary Schools in the Midlands and Devon

Education

  • 2006 
    University of Plymouth, MA (Ed) Inclusive Education

Publications

  • 2014
    Done, E., Murphy, M. and Knowler, H (2014) Mandatory accreditation for special educational needs coordinators: Bio-politics, neoliberal managerialism and the Deleuzo-Guattarian 'war machine', Journal of Education Policy
  • 2012
    Done, E. & Knowler, H. L. (2012) Features of a post-identitarian pedagogy (with reference to postgraduate student writing and the continuing professional development of teachers). , Studies in Higher Education
  • 2011
    Done, E. & Knowler, H. L. (2011) (Re)writing reflective practice with Deleuze, Guattari and feminist poststructuralism ., Reflective Practice
  • 2011
    Done, E., Knowler, H., Murphy, M., Rea, T. & Gale, K. (2011) (Re) Writing CPD: creative analytic practices and the professional development of teachers , Reflective Practice
  • 2009
    Knowler, H. (2009) Special, Mainstream or the place in-between: participation and inclusion for pupils who experience SEBD in Gibson, S & Haynes, J (Eds)(2009) Perspectives on Participation and Inclusion: Engaging Education London: Continuum , Perspectives on Participation and Inclusion: Engaging Education
  • 2007
    Gibson, S. & Knowler, H. (2007) The Joy of meeting pupil needs through developing community in D. Hayes (Ed.), Joyful Teaching and Learning in the Primary School Exeter: Learning Matters, Joyful Teaching and Learning

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