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Dr Lee Jerome

BSc, PGCE, MA, PhD
Lecturer in Education

Room 01.009
20 College Green
School of Education
Queen's University Belfast

Tel: +44 (0)28 9097 3220
Fax: +44 (0)28 9097 5066
Email: l.jerome@qub.ac.uk

You can follow Lee’s work and download papers at:
http://qub.academia.edu/LeeJerome


Role

  • Lecturer in Education.
  • Member of the Centre for Children’s Rights – with particular responsibility for supporting the implementation of the MSc in Children’s Rights.
  • Editor of ‘Teaching Citizenship’ the journal of the Association for Citizenship Teaching (www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk)

Research Interests

  • Citizenship Education
  • Children’s Rights Education
  • Initial Teacher Education

Teaching

  • PGCE
  • MSc Children’s Rights
  • MA supervision


Publications

Books and Book Chapters

Jerome, L. (2012) England’s Citizenship Education Experiment: state, school and student perspectives, London: Continuum

Jerome, L. (2012) ‘Children’s Rights and Teachers’ Responsibilities’ in R. C. Mitchell & S. A. Moore (Eds) Politics, Participation & Power Relations: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Critical Citizenship in the Classroom and Community, Rotterdam: Sense

McCallum, A. & Jerome, L. (2012) ‘Promoting a rights-based perspective in initial teacher education’ in M. Shuayb (Ed) Rethinking Education for Social Cohesion, London: Palgrave Macmillan

Jerome, L. (2010) ‘Assessment’ in J. Arthur and I. Davies (Eds) The Routledge Education Studies Textbook, Abingdon: Routledge

Jerome, L. (2008) ‘Assessing Citizenship Education’ in I. Davies et al. (Eds) Sage Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Democracy, London: Sage


Journal Articles

Jerome, L. (2012) ‘Service Learning and Active Citizenship Education in England’ Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 7 (1), 59-70

Jerome, L. and Clemitshaw, G. (2012) ‘Teaching (about) Britishness? An investigation into trainee teachers’ understanding of Britishness in relation to citizenship and the discourse of civic nationalism’ The Curriculum Journal, 23 (1), 19-41

Hayward, J. and Jerome, L. (2010) 'Staffing, Status and Subject Knowledge: What does the construction of citizenship as a new curriculum subject in England tell us about the nature of school subjects?' Journal of Education for Teaching, 36 (2), 211-25

Jerome, L (2006) ‘Critical citizenship experiences? Working with trainee teachers to facilitate active citizenship in schools’, Teacher Development, 10 (3), 309-25

Jerome, L. and Algarra, B. (2005) ‘Debating Debating: A reflection on the place of debate within secondary schools’, The Curriculum Journal, 16 (4), 493-508


Recent Conference Papers

White, R. & Jerome, L. (2013) ‘Self-segregating social groups in a super-diverse university’, paper presented at CiCe Network Conference, University of Lisbon, 13-15 June 2013

Jerome, L. and Bhargava, M. (2012) ‘Power, Politics and Pedagogy: Community Organising and Citizenship Education’, paper presented at CiCe Network Conference, University of York, 24-6 May 2012

Jerome, L. (2011) ‘Children’s Rights and Teachers’ Responsibilities’, paper presented at the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice seminar Human rights and citizenship in the ‘post-welfare’ state, London Metropolitan University, 7 July 2011.

Jerome, L. (2010) ‘Integrating Rights in a Secondary PGCE – A Case Study’, paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Warwick University, 1 September 2010

Jerome, L. (2010) ‘Service Learning and Citizenship Education in England’, paper presented at the Seminar on Active Democratic Citizenship in a British, Spanish and a Danish Context with Focus on Identity Formation, The Danish School of Education, Copenhagen, 26 August 2010

Jerome, L. (2010) ‘Patriotic or patronising? Trainee teachers’ perceptions of teaching about Britishness and identity in the citizenship and history classroom’, paper presented at the Citized national conference, St Andrews University, 2-4 July 2010

Jerome, L. (2010) ‘From children’s rights to teachers’ responsibilities – identifying an agenda for teacher education’, paper presented at CiCe Network Conference, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 May 2010

Jerome, L. (2009) ‘New Labour, New Citizens: Citizenship education as the creation of ‘model’ citizens’, paper presented at Liverpool John Moores University in the Working with Young People and Children Seminar Series, 24 April 2009.