Kalwant Bhopal

Bio: Kalwant Bhopal is an academic researcher from University of Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Higher education & Ethnic group. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 105 publications receiving 2013 citations. Previous affiliations of Kalwant Bhopal include University of Bristol & University of Greenwich.

Connecting Children: Care and Family Life in Later Childhood

Abstract: Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged 11-12 and shows how families connect children in different ways both in the household but also in their wider kinship networks. The children studied reflect upon family life and especially upon situations where their own family lives change dramatically, such as when parents divorce or are unable to care for them. This book will be of interest to those working in education, social work, child care, counselling, social policy and childhood studies.

Gypsy Travellers and Education: Changing Needs and Changing Perceptions

Abstract: This article explores Gypsy Travellers’ changing views on their children's education. It highlights the positive means some schools use to encourage greater involvement of Gypsy Traveller parents. It argues that current educational policy needs to be re-developed to incorporate more effective and affirmative responses to interrupted and nomadic learning. It draws heavily on interviews with Gypsy Traveller families in an effort to give ‘voice’ to an under-represented community.

Gender, identity and experience: Researching marginalised groups

Abstract: This article will examine the status of the researcher when conducting research with Gypsy families and Asian women. It will explore how the positioning of the researcher as an outsider and insider can affect the research relationship and can be a useful and privileged position from which to engage in the research process. Gender, identity and experience can create a shared empathy and a shared understanding between the respondent and the researcher in which trust and rapport can encourage respondents to open up and discuss their personal experiences. The article also examines the complexities and tensions associated with how the status and identity of the interviewer can affect the research relationship and how an appreciation of difference is fundamental to this process.

Researching South Asian Women: Issues of sameness and difference in the research process

Abstract: This paper explores issues of gender, racial identity in the research process, control and ownership of data and how this affects research. It also looks at the influence of outsider/insider status in carrying out research. The article draws upon research carried out in East London on South Asian women. It argues that our racial identity can and does affect the research process in which women who have some shared experience with researchers may be more willing to speak to researchers who reflect this. Furthermore, the control and ownership of the research project and data can also affect our relationship to the project and often black/Asian researchers may be recruited to be interviewers in studies that are not always controlled by them. When considering our outsider/insider status within the research process, this is influenced by our own personal experiences, our 'race', gender and other physical characteristics in ways in which we may have no control.

Education at a Glance

Abstract: A detailed review of the education sector in Australia as in the data provided by the 2006 edition of the OECD's annual publication, 'Education at a Glance' is presented. While the data has shown that in almost all OECD countries educational attainment levels are on the rise, with countries showing impressive gains in university qualifications, it also reveals that a large of share of young people still do not complete secondary school, which remains a baseline for successful entry into the labour market.

Of Theory and Practice

Abstract: Much has been written about theory and practice in the law, and the tension between practitioners and theorists. Judges do not cite theoretical articles often; they rarely "apply" theories to particular cases. These arguments are not revisited. Instead the Essay explores the working and interaction of theory and practice, practitioners and theorists. The Essay starts with a story about solving a legal issue using our intellectual tools - theory, practice, and their progenies: experience and "gut." Next the Essay elaborates on the nature of theory, practice, experience and "gut." The third part of the Essay discusses theories that are helpful to practitioners and those that are less helpful. The Essay concludes that practitioners theorize, and theorists practice. They use these intellectual tools differently because the goals and orientations of theorists and practitioners, and the constraints under which they act, differ. Theory, practice, experience and "gut" help us think, remember, decide and create. They complement each other like the two sides of the same coin: distinct but inseparable.

Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

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