Dr Lee Jerome

Professor in Education (Childhood and Society)

Lee Jerome

  • School Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education

  • Department Education

  • Location London

Research activities

I explore three main themes in my research and writing:

1. Citizenship education

I have published work on the development of citizenship education policy, the establishment of citizenship education as a new curriculum subject in England and deliberation as a pedagogic approach. I am on the editorial group of Teaching Citizenship, the journal of the Association for Citizenship Teaching, and editor of Education, Citizenship and Social Justice. I have also researched character education and the Prevent Duty in education, and am currently conducting research on how to promote active citizenship through schools in the National Citizenship Education Survey.

2. Children's rights

I led a Rights Respecting PGCE at London Metropolitan University, in which the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child were established as a foundation for the teacher education course. I continued to explore this theme in my work at the Centre for Children's Rights at Queen's University Belfast, where I led the MA Children's Rights and coordinated an international research project to establish a baseline assessment of child rights education (CRE) across 26 countries. With Hugh Starkey I have published a book on 'Children's Rights Education in Diverse Classrooms'.

3. Teacher education

Having taught on teacher education courses for a number of years I maintain an interest in this area. I coordinate the Special Interest Group on Professional Education and Partnerships at Middlesex and continue to run short courses and training for colleagues in a range of educational issues. I have published on teacher standards, teachers' agency and with Marcus Bhargava I published a book on teachers' medium term planning.

I'm interested in exploring these three themes through research, consultancy, professional collaborations and through postgraduate supervision, so if you have an idea, please get in touch.

 

Current Teaching

I teach on the MA Childhood and Education in Diverse Societies undergraduate research methods and supervise individual dissertations and doctoral theses. I also contribute to the doctoral training programme and chair the faculty ethics committee.

I am interested in supervising students working in the following areas and would welcome conversations with prospective doctoral students:

  • Citizenship education and civics.
  • Children's rights in education and human rights education.
  • Teachers' planning and conceptualisations of professional practices.
  • Contemporary education policy.
  • Inter-professional perspectives on mentoring and professional education.

Current doctoral students are investigating professional education in social work; mentoring in secondary schools; children's rights in school; and employability in HE.

 

Biography

I am a Professor of Citizenship and Children's Rights Education at Middlesex University, where I teach and work with colleagues in the Centre for Educational Research and Scholarship (CERS) to build research capacity. I have worked in schools, charities and higher education for the past thirty years, starting as a teacher of history and sociology in London secondary schools. I then became Education Director at the Institute for Citizenship, and subsequently moved into the university sector where I have taught on a variety of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional courses in traditional face to face classrooms and on-line environments.

I gained my PhD in Citizenship Education Policy in 2012 from the Institute of Education in London. I also have an MA in History of Colonial and Post-Colonial Societies, from Birkbeck College, a PGCE in Social Studies and a BSc in Politics and Sociology. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Publications

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