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Curriculum and Ofsted reforms

  Curriculum reform:   New curriculum to give young people the skills for life and work - GOV.UK Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report - GOV.UK Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report: government response - GOV.UK What you need to know about the changes to the National Curriculum – The Education Hub A New Curriculum for Schools: Key Takeaways from the Francis Review | National Governance Association Curriculum and Assessment Review final report: Building a world-class curriculum for all   Send reform:   SEND reform: putting children and young people first - GOV.UK   Ofsted reform and frameworks:   Improving the way Ofsted inspects education: report on the responses to the consultation - GOV.UK Ofsted sets out proposals for fairer education inspections and new, more detailed report cards - GOV.UK Education inspection framework: for use from November 2025 - GOV.UK Initial teacher education (ITE) inspection: toolkit, operating guide and framework...

Lit rev thoughts

  Background and context 20% as a significant proportion of society - the only minority anyone can join at any point. , but Microsoft posit that DA doesn’t just benefit minorities but everyone- ID infographic, meaning it’s significance is much broader. Accessibility about disability but inclusive design and universal design about everyone 

Interview thoughts

 Describe the experience and add meaning to the experience  Write a persona profile and written overview of their classroom experience- PCKg questions to add meaning to that experience  Visually represented as a circle of topics  Triangulate key overlap in themes raised in PCKg Pre-service teachers - our next generation of teachers getting scaffolding training to apply it to the classroom environment- working with experienced teachers to integrate activities- experienced teachers could help with observations. Development of early PCKg - recommendations for classroom environment but also teacher training for subject matter knowledge- both being inclusive and teaching learners about it Could be used for university instead of SCULPT scenario. How can digital accessibility awareness be introduced into the primary school curriculum at upper key stage 2? What students- why upper key stage 2 What teachers - e.g. why explore this from pre-service (e.g. not an add-on or extra...

Useful for rationale

  https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68ba9fd0cc8356c3c882ab2b/Initial_teacher_education_inspection_toolkit.pdf Subject knowledge and highlighting inclusion within education 

Thesis structure

2026 Intro info… Literature review   Purpose of the literature review Background and context  The teaching of digital accessibility awareness  Teacher subject knowledge  Teacher pedagogical experience  Curriculum components of digital accessibility awareness  Research objectives and questions Overview of rationale and gap Aims and objectives of the research  Research questions  Methodology   Theoretical perspective   ontology and epistemology pragmatism researcher position  Research design   mixed (multi methods) (quant - QUAL - QUAL) Methodological framework Educational design research Lesson study Conceptual frameworks guiding the study (PCK) (Ped as PEE) Core and Papers Data collection methods and analysis   questionnaire  focus groups  reflective semi structured interviews analysis and triangulation  ethical considerations 2027 Research findings   Study 1: Pre-assessment of teachers prior knowledge...

Notes for conceptual framework PCK

 Teaching isn’t just about subject knowledge, it’s pedagogical elements about how the topic is presented to students- teaching resources and pedagogical guidance to be able to transform topic knowledge into learning activities. - pedagogical knowledge  Topic is multidisciplinary- subject knowledge  Combining these together makes PCK an ideal conceptual framework to organise the study  With the UKS2 Teaching context established as an ideal starting point to locate this study, it is pertinent to include discussions about teaching within that context and environment making Cochran et al (1993) model an ideal framework to frame and organise the study.

Observation quotes

  Participant Observation as a Data Collection Method - (Kawulich, 2005). Participant observation, for many years, has been a hallmark of both anthropological and  sociological studies. In recent years, the field of education has seen an increase in the number  of qualitative studies that include participant observation as a way to collect information (Kawulich, 2005). MARSHALL and ROSSMAN (1989) define observation as "the systematic description of events,  behaviors, and artifacts in the social setting chosen for study" (p.79). Observations enable the researcher to describe existing situations using the five senses, providing a "written photograph" of the situation under study (ERLANDSON, HARRIS, SKIPPER, & ALLEN, 1993). Participant observation is the process enabling researchers to learn about the  activities of the people under study in the natural setting through observing and participating in  those activities . It provides the context for developm...