Dr Katherine Evans
Profiles

Dr Katherine Evans

Lecturer in Education (Early Childhood Studies)

Plymouth Institute of Education - School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)

Biography

Biography

Lecturer BA Early Childhood Studies and BEd (Hons) Primary (FS/KS1)

Qualifications

2017 - ESRC funded PhD 'Deconstructing Readiness in Early Childhood Education', University of Exeter2012 - MSc Educational Research, University of Exeter
2010 - EYPS, University of the West of England
2005 - BEd (Hons) Primary (Art), University of Reading
Teaching

Teaching

Teaching interests

Early childhood educationSchool readiness and transitions in the early years
Post human perspectives on early childhood education
Research

Research

Research interests

My doctorate focused on deconstructing the concept of 'readiness' in relation to early childhood education.I am currently interested in how posthumanist ideas can help us to think differently about children's experiences of transition in early childhood education.
Publications

Publications

Journals
McGuire, J. & Evans, K. (2018) Finding a Need for Measurement: The Case of the Aliens Underpants. Mathematics Teaching Vol 261, 36-40.
Evans, K. (2016) Beyond a logic of quality: Opening space for material-discursive practices of ‘readiness’ in early years education. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood.Vol17(1), 65-77.

Evans, K. (2015) Reconceptualizing dominant discourses in early childhood education: Exploring readiness as an active-ethical-relation. Complicity 12(1): 32–51.

Evans, K. (2013) ‘School readiness’: The struggle for complexity. LEARNing Landscapes 7(1): 171–186.

Other Publications
Evans, K. (2017) Deconstructing Readiness in Early Childhood Education. PhD Thesis. University of Exeter.