Dr Mark Peart
- Lecturer in Teacher Education (Primary with specialism in Technologies) (School of Education)
email:
Mark.Peart@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
Office N502a (North Wing), St. Andrew's Building, School of Education, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow, G3 6NH
Biography
Mark Peart is a lecturer in Primary School Education with specialism in Digital Technologies at the University of Glasgow. Previously, he obtained his BA (Hons) in Primary School Education, his MSc in Research in Teacher Training and ICT and PhD in Education, exploring the development of digital and socio-civic skills for promoting digital citizenship education and youth participation at the University of Extremadura (Spain). He has also taught modules related to curriculum and pedagogy, school organisation, digital technologies, innovation and educational research in ITE courses at this university and supervised students' dissertations. In parallel to achieving his degrees and lecturing, he has nearly 10 years experience as a Primary School Teacher working with children aged 6 to 12 years old, while also assuming leadership roles related to Digital Education and CPD for teachers. Also, he has ample experience related to volunteering and promoting youth participation, having dedicated more than 15 years to working with non-formal education and NGO youth sections.
He is an emerging academic and researcher, gaining experience and producing scientific outputs in the field of Education. Currently, he has several papers, published in high-ranking journals and ample portfolio in international conferences. Ha has also participated as a reviewer in several indexed journals.
His current research focuses on digital education, active methodologies in Primary School and the pedagogical application of technologies. In addition to the development of digital literacy, competences and skills and how they relate to wider social and educational context, transformative education, social justice education and the promotion of Digital Citizenship education.
Research interests
My research interest are around the areas of:
- Digital Citizenship Education
- Active methodologies and pedagogy
- Pedagogical application of technologies
- Digital competence and skills
- Youth participation and engagement
- Transformative Education
Supervision
Mark is open to supervising students' who wish to develop dissertations related to the followig research areas:
- Digital Citizenship Education
- Creative pedagogy and active methodologies
- Pedagogical application of technologies
- Digital competence and skills
Currently, he is part of the supervisory team for:
- Childs, Katharine
Promoting Interest and Broadening Participation in Computing among Middle School Pupils through Physical Computing Projects using Grounded Cognition Theory
Teaching
During this academic year, Mark will be teaching on:
PGDE Programme courses:
- Research and Enquiry-Led Learning & Teaching (RELLT)
- Curriculum, Pedagogy and Practice (CPP) - Primary Education (Technologies)
MEduc Programme courses:
- Fundamentals of Education 1A and 1B
- Curriculum Enquiry 2 - Subject specialism in Technologies
- Curriculum Enquiry 3 - Subject specialism in Technologies
- Curriculum Enquiry 4 - Subject specialism in Technologies
- Education and Society 3
- MEduc Year 5 Dissertations
Professional activities & recognition
Professional & learned societies
- 2024: Member, Scottish Educational Research Association
- 2023: Member, British Educational Research Association
- 2023: Member, Technology, Pedagogy and Education Association
- 2020 - 2023: Member, Spanish Pedagogical Society
- 2020 - 2023: Member, Interuniversity Network for Educational Technology (Spain)
Selected international presentations
- 2022: European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) (Yerevan, Armenia)
- 2021: XVII International Conference on Pedagogy (Madrid, Spain)
- 2021: European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) (Geneva, Switzerland)
- 2019: XIX International Conference on Educational Research (Madrid, Spain)
- 2019: XXVII Educational Technology University Conference (JUTE) (Santander, Spain)
- 2018: European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) (Bolzano, Italy)
- 2018: IX Conference of Young Researchers of Extremadura (Badajoz, Spain)
- 2018: European Association on Educational Research Summer School (Brno, Czech Republic)
- 2018: 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Distance Learning (Silesia, Poland)
- 2017: European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- 2017: XXV Educational Technology University Conference (JUTE) (Burgos, Spain)
- 2014: 6th International Conference on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Distance Learning (Silesia, Poland)
- 2014: XVII International Conference on Education and Technology (EDUTEC) (Cordoba, Spain)