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  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Sharon Gewirtz is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the social sciences, primarily focusing on education. Their research spans 19 publications within the field of social sciences, with a concentrated emphasis on education, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, philosophy, and research and theory.

Their work addresses multiple topics including youth education and societal dynamics, global educational policies and reforms, global education and multiculturalism, teacher education and leadership studies, educational theory and curriculum studies, teacher professional development and motivation, and collaborative teaching and inclusion.

Gewirtz has published in a range of academic journals, with frequent appearances in the Journal of Vocational Education and Training, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Teaching and Teacher Education, British Journal of Sociology of Education, and Children & Society.

Recent publications include:

  • Creating more equitable school-to-work transitions for young people not taking the university route: an 'equalities-ecologies' framework, 2024, Journal of Vocational Education and Training
  • What works? Academic integrity and the research-policy relationship, 2020, British Journal of Sociology of Education
  • Neoconservative education policy and the case of the English Baccalaureate, 2020, Journal of Curriculum Studies
  • A profession in crisis? Teachers' responses to England's high-stakes accountability reforms in secondary education, 2022, Teaching and Teacher Education
  • Socioeconomic inequality and adjustments in children's perceptions of their agency as they age in South Korea, 2020, Children & Society

Gewirtz has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Meg Maguire, Eszter Neumann, Emma Towers, Alan Cribb, and Sait Bayrakdar. These collaborations reflect ongoing contributions to topics related to education policy, teacher responses to reforms, and social inequalities.

In addition to journal articles, Gewirtz has contributed to book publications, notably with UCL Press, where a significant work titled Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Education and the Struggle for Social Justice: Essays Inspired by the Work of Geoff Whitty was published in 2020.

Gewirtz's recognition includes being named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom, reflecting a standing within the academic community focused on social science research and education.

Best Publications

  • Markets, choice, and equity in education

    Sharon Gewirtz;Stephen J. Ball;Richard Bowe

  • The Managerial School: Post-welfarism and Social Justice in Education

    Sharon Gewirtz

  • Circuits of schooling: A sociological exploration of parental choice of school in social class contexts

    Stephen J. Ball;Richard Bowe;Sharon Gewirtz

  • New Managerialism, New Welfare?

    John Clarke;Sharon Gewirtz;Eugene McLaughlin

  • Conceptualizing social justice in education: mapping the territory

    Sharon Gewirtz

  • School choice, social class and distinction: the realization of social advantage in education

    Stephen J. Ball;Richard Bowe;Sharon Gewirtz

  • Comparing Welfare States

    Allan Cochrane;John Clarke;Sharon Gewirtz

  • Cloning the Blairs: New Labour's programme for the re-socialization of working-class parents

    Sharon Gewirtz

  • From 'Welfarism' to 'New Managerialism': Shifting discourses of school headship in the education marketplace

    Sharon Gewirtz;Stephen Ball

  • Towards a Contextualized Analysis of Social Justice in Education

    Sharon Gewirtz

  • Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education: The City Technology College Experiment

    Geoff Whitty;Tony Edwards;Sharon Gewirtz

  • Captured by the Discourse? Issues and concerns in researching ‘parental choice‘

    Richard Bowe;Sharon Gewirtz;Stephen J. Ball

  • Changing Teacher Professionalism : International trends, challenges and ways forward

    Sharon Gewirtz;Pat Mahony;Ian Hextall;Alan Cribb

  • Plural conceptions of social justice: implications for policy sociology

    Sharon Gewirtz;Alan Cribb

  • Understanding Education: A Sociological Perspective

    Sharon Gewirtz;Alan Cribb

  • Rethinking social policy

    Gail Lewis;Sharon Gewirtz;John Clarke

  • ‘Parental choice’, consumption and social theory: The operation of micro‐markets in education

    Richard Bowe;Stephen Ball;Sharon Gewirtz

  • Post‐welfarism and the reconstruction of teachers’ work in the UK

    Sharon Gewirtz

  • Unpacking Autonomy and Control in Education: Some Conceptual and Normative Groundwork for a Comparative Analysis

    Alan Cribb;Sharon Gewirtz

  • The hollowed-out university? A critical analysis of changing institutional and academic norms in UK higher education

    Alan Cribb;Sharon Gewirtz

  • The deployment of social capital theory in educational policy and provision: the case of Education Action Zones in England

    Sharon Gewirtz;Marny Dickson;Sally Power;David Halpin

  • Unravelling a ‘spun’ policy: a case study of the constitutive role of ‘spin’ in the education policy process

    Sharon Gewirtz;Marny Dickson;Sally Power

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoff Whitty
Geoff Whitty University of Newcastle Australia
Eugene McLaughlin
Eugene McLaughlin City, University of London

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