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44
Citations
7752
World Ranking
4158
National Ranking
700

Overview

Peter Woods is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of Computer Science and Psychology. Their work spans subfields such as Computer Science Applications, Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Statistics and Probability, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research addresses topics including Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Statistics Education and Methodologies, Online Learning and Analytics, Data Analysis with R, Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences, Service-Learning and Community Engagement, and Management and Organizational Studies.

Woods has published multiple papers in the venue titled "Proceedings." Recent papers authored or co-authored by them include the following:

  • Deadline Extensions as Public Pedagogy: Envisioning the Ethics of Care in Academic Conferences, 2023, Proceedings.
  • Embodied Math Learning Through Design Friction: An Argument in Favor of Flawed Tools, 2023, Proceedings.
  • Doing Learning Sciences Research In and Through Performing Arts, 2024, Proceedings.

Additional recent papers without Woods as an author, but relevant to their research community, include:

  • Data and Social Worlds: How Data Science Education Supports Civic Participation and Social Discourse, 2024, Proceedings.
  • Learning as Participation at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2025, Proceedings.

Frequent collaborators include Andee Rubin and Colin Hennessy Elliott, each having co-authored two papers with Woods, as well as Katherine M. Miller, Joseph L. Polman, and Susan A. Yoon, each with one co-authored paper.

Best Publications

  • Teacher careers : crises and continuities

    Patricia J. Sikes;Lynda Measor;Peter Woods

  • Restructuring Schools, Reconstructing Teachers: Responding to Change in the Primary School

    Peter Woods;Bob Jeffrey;Geoff Troman;Mari Boyle

  • The divided school

    Peter Woods

  • Successful writing for qualitative researchers

    Peter Woods

  • The Reconstruction of Primary Teachers' Identities

    Peter Woods;Bob Jeffrey

  • Researching the Art of Teaching: Ethnography for Educational Use

    Peter Woods

  • Feeling Deprofessionalised: the social construction of emotions during an OFSTED inspection

    Bob Jeffrey;Peter Woods

  • Critical events in teaching and learning

    Peter Woods

  • Teacher skills and strategies

    Peter Woods

  • Primary Teachers' Stress

    Geoff Troman;Peter Woods

  • Creative Teachers in Primary Schools

    Peter Woods

  • Sociology and the school: An interactionist viewpoint

    Peter Woods

  • Restructuring Schools, Reconstructing Teachers

    Peter Woods;Bob Jeffrey;Geoff Troman;Mari Boyle

  • Life in School : The Sociology of Pupil Culture

    Martyn Hammersley;Peter Woods

  • Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform

    Geoff Troman;Peter Woods

  • Testing Teachers: The effect of school inspections on primary teachers

    Bob Jeffrey;Peter Woods

  • The Creative School: A Framework for Success, Quality and Effectiveness

    Bob Jeffrey;Peter Woods

  • Critical Events in Education

    Peter Woods

  • Teachable Moments: The Art of Teaching in Primary Schools

    Peter Woods;Bob Jeffrey

  • Educational Research: Current Issues@@@Educational Research in Action

    Margaret B. Sutherland;Martyn Hammersley;Roger Gomm;Peter Woods

  • Postscript to ‘Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform’

    Geoff Troman;Peter Woods

Frequent Co-Authors

Martyn Hammersley
Martyn Hammersley The Open University

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