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DR PATRICIA SANDERSON. Ph.D. (Manchester)., M.A. (Leeds)., Advanced Diploma in Education (Hull).

Current Teaching

Educational Research Methodologies; the Psychology of Child Development; Dance and Physical Education

Research interests and supervision areas:

• Aesthetic education and development
• Creative arts (art, music, dance, drama) curricula and issues.
• Arts Therapies with particular reference to education
• Attitudes: of teachers, pupils, artists to educational issues and curricula.
• Creative arts partnerships
• Special needs in arts education

Supervision of research, using qualitative and/or quantitative research procedures and analyses, is available in any of the areas listed above.

Recently completed PhD theses

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Karkou, V. (1998) A descriptive evaluation of the practice of Arts Therapies in the UK. (ESRC studentship)

Yiallourides, G. (1998) Factors influencing the attitudes of 9 to 14 year old Cypriot pupils towards physical education.

Meekums, B. (1998) Recovery from child sexual abuse trauma within an Arts Therapies programme for women in the UK.

Pearson, D. (2000) Factors influencing the attitudes of secondary school teachers to the use of the comic strip as an educational tool. (ESRC studentship)

Bannon, F. (2001) Experience every moment. Aesthetically significant experience of education in dance.

Connel, J. (2001) The practice of dance teaching within the curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4 in Yorkshire schools

Savva, A. (2001) Artists in Cypriot primary schools: exploring pupils’, teachers’ and artists’ attitudes

Cheung, R. (2002) Factors influencing attitudes of secondary school pupils in Hong Kong, to physical education.

Students are currently researching in the following areas:

Lau, K. Evaluation of a music curriculum in a Hong Kong specialist school

Mavritsou, I. The impact of artists working in primary schools in the North West of England

Al-Amri, M. Development of an art curriculum in Oman

Recent publications

Sanderson, P. (2000) The development of dance attitude scales Educational Research 42,1, 91-99

Karkou, V. and Sanderson, P. (2000) Dance Movement Therapy within UK education Research in Dance Education 1,1, 69-86, 2000

Bannon, F. and Sanderson, P. (2000) Experience every moment. Aesthetically significant dance education Research in Dance Education 1,1, 9-26

Karkou, V. and Sanderson, P. (2001) Dance Movement Therapy in the UK: a field emerging from dance education European Physical Education Review 7,2, 137-155, 2001

Sanderson, P. (2001) Age and gender issues in adolescent attitudes to dance European Physical Education Review 7,2, 117-136

Karkou, V. and Sanderson, P. (2001) Report: Theories and assessment procedures used by dance movement therapists in the UK The Arts in Psychotherapy. An International Journal , 28, 13-20

Other information

• Membership of Editorial Boards of the following academic 
  journals: 

  • Research in Dance Education;
  • European Physical Education Review
  • Dancelines
    
    

• External Examiner, graduate programmes : University of Leeds;
  University of Surrey

• External Examiner, graduate programmes : University of Leeds;
  University of Surrey

• MEd

  • Extensive MEd teaching experience. 
  • Course units have included the following: 
    • Aesthetic Education; 
    • The Arts in Education; 
    • Aesthetic Aspects of Sport and Dance; 
    • Aesthetic Development; 
    • Dance Education and Assessment; 
    • Dance and PE in Primary Schools. 

These research-based course units employed philosophical, psychological and curriculum literature.

Contact information

Dr Patricia Sanderson
Faculty of Education
University of Manchester
Oxford Road,
Manchester M13 9PL
Tel: 0161 275 4965

Email: patricia.sanderson@man.ac.uk