Dean Garratt

Reader in Education

Having originally qualified as a secondary teacher, I worked part-time in further education before moving into higher education full-time in 1996.

Qualifications

BEd (Hons), PhD, FHEA.

Overview

For eleven years, I worked at the Manchester Metropolitan University, in a variety of roles, including research associate, research fellow, senior lecturer and postgraduate programme leader, for the ESRC approved Master of Research programme. Throughout my early career, I was extensively involved in a wide range of externally funded research projects and independent evaluations. These included evaluations sponsored by the Institute of Global Ethics and Citizenship Foundation (lead evaluator), DfES and Wellcome Foundation (co-director), Joint Information Systems Committee, Sports Coach UK (bid author), Learning and Skills Research Council, Lego-Siemens Schools-Industry Partnership and National Evaluation of Sure Start (bid author).

In 2007, I moved to Liverpool John Moores University, initially to a role as Reader of Citizenship Education, before embracing a new and more demanding position as postgraduate programme leader and senior lecturer in education studies. Here, I developed and validated a new Master of Research degree and played a central role in developing and supporting research training for postgraduate students within the Faculty. I am currently supervising four PhD and EdD students, and have six completions with two more anticipated later this year. Relatedly, I have examined four PhDs and was previously external examiner for the MA Education (research pathway) at the University of Central Lancashire (2005-2009).

In my previous role, I also taught education policy to undergraduate students of education studies, developed the module ‘equality and human rights' on the special and inclusive needs route and supervised dissertations at level 3. Throughout, I have remained actively involved in research and scholarly activity: publishing, presenting papers at international conferences and working on sustained writing projects, both independently and in collaboration with other colleagues.

Research

My research interests span a fairly wide and eclectic range of issues and themes but are generally informed by a critical perspective and firm commitment to social justice. Over the years, this has centred on the analysis and critique of citizenship education, conducted from a variety of angles and perspectives, including monarchy, identity, performativity, sport and ‘race' and ethnicity, which, in different ways, have related to particular aspects of education policy.

I am also interested in emerging notions of professionalism, including, for example, the professionalisation of sports coaching and formation of identities in higher education.

This substantive focus is coupled with a long-standing interest in research methodologies and their underpinning philosophies, in particular those of phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics and the post-structural theorizing of Foucault's oeuvre.

Current funded projects and bids

I am Co-Investigator of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project (£98k), entitled: ‘Hands off Sports Coaching!: The politics of touch', with H. Piper (P.I.).

I am Principal Investigator of a research project proposal currently under consideration with the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, entitled: ‘A personal and social curriculum for civic re-engagement: the role of critical thinking and philosophical enquiry at Key Stage 3', with H. Piper (Co-I).

Published work

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  • Pherali, T. and Garratt, D. (in preparation) Post-conflict Identity Crisis in Nepal: Opportunities for Reconstruction?
  • Garratt, D. and Piper, H. (under review) ‘Citizenship education and philosophical enquiry: putting thinking back into practice', Journal of Curriculum Studies
  • Garratt, D. (under review) ‘Reflections on learning: Widening capability and the student experience', Cambridge Journal of Education
  • Piper, H., Taylor, B. and Garratt, D. (2011 in press) ‘No touch coaching: disembodiment and the development of mistrust', Sport, Education and Society
  • Garratt, D. (2011 in press) ‘Equality, difference and the absent presence of "race" in citizenship education in the UK', London Review of Education, 9 (1).
  • Garratt, D. (2010) ‘"Sporting Citizenship": the rebirth of religion?' Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 18 (2): 123-143.
  • Garratt, D. and Piper, H. (2010) ‘Heterotopian Cosmopolitan Citizenship Education?' Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 5 (1), 43-55.
  • Taylor, B. and Garratt, D. (2010) ‘The professionalisation of sports coaching: relations of power, resistance and compliance', Sport, Education and Society, 15 (1), 121-139.
  • Garratt, D. and Hammersley-Fletcher, L. (2009) ‘Academic identities in flux: Ambivalent articulations in a post 1992 university' Power and Education, 1 (3), 307-318, available on-line at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/power/content/pdfs/1/issue1_3.asp
  • Garratt, D. and Piper, H. (2008) ‘Citizenship Education in England and Wales - Theoretical critique and practical considerations', Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, 14 (5-6), 481-496.
  • Stronach, I., Garratt, D., Pearce, C. and Piper, H. (2007) ‘Reflexivity, The Picturing of Selves, the Forging of Method' Qualitative Inquiry, 13 (1), 179-203.
  • Piper, H. and Garratt, D. (2004) ‘Identity and Citizenship: some contradictions in practice' British Journal of Educational Studies, 52 (3), 276-292.
  • Shallcross, A. and Garratt, D. (2004) ‘A Citizenship Values Award: Insights into professional issues and identity? New Era in Education, 84(3), 81-85.
  • Garratt, D. and Piper, H. (2003) ‘Citizenship Education and the Monarchy: Examining the Contradictions', British Journal of Educational Studies, 51(2), 127-147.
  • Saxon, D., Garratt, D. and Gilroy, P. (2003) ‘Collecting data in the information age: exploring web-based survey methods in educational research', Research in Education, 69, 51-66.
  • Garratt, D. (2000) ‘Democratic Citizenship in the Curriculum: some problems and possibilities' Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 8 (3), 323-346.
  • Garratt, D. (1998) ‘"Régime of Truth" as a Serendipitous Event: an essay concerning the relationship between research data and the generation of ideas', British Educational Research Journal, 24 (2), 217-235.
  • Garratt, D. and Hodkinson, P. (1998) ‘Can There Be Criteria for Selecting Research Criteria? - A Hermeneutical Analysis of an Inescapable Dilemma', Qualitative Inquiry, 4 (4), 515-539.
  • Garratt, D. and Robinson, J. (1994) ‘Opportunities missed or deliberately avoided: The invisibility of the cross-curricular themes in Dearing', British Journal of Curriculum and Assessment, 4 (3), 13-17.
  • Robinson, J. and Garratt, D. (1994) ‘Interdependence and Controversial Issues: Environmental Education and Economic and Industrial Understanding as Cross-Curricular Themes', The International Journal of Environmental Education and Information, 13 (4), 415-428.
  • Garratt, D. and Robinson, J. (1994) ‘Coherent Cross-Curricularity: Some Philosophical Problems', Journal of Educational Change and Development, 14 (2), 27-39.

 

Books

  • Garratt, D. and Piper, H. (2008) Citizenship, Identity and Nationhood- a contradiction in practice? London, Continuum.
  • Kassem, D. and Garratt, D. (eds) (2009) Exploring Key Issues in Education, London, Continuum.
  • Garratt, D. (2003) My Qualitative Research Journey: Researching Against the Rules, New Jersey, USA, Hampton Press (Series Editor J.K. Smith ‘Qualitative Studies on Schools and Schooling').

Book chapters

  • Taylor, B. and Garratt, D. (2011 forthcoming) ‘Coaching and professionalism', In J. Denison, W. Gilbert and P. Potrac, Handbook of Sports Coaching, London and New York, Routledge.
  • Crooke, C. and Garratt, D. (2010 in press) ‘The positivist paradigm in contemporary social science research', In B. Somekh and C. Lewin (eds) Research Methods in the Social Sciences (2nd edition), London, Sage
  • Taylor, B. and Garratt, D. (2010) ‘The professionalisation of sports coaching: definitions, challenges and critiques', In J. Lyle and C. Cushion (eds) Sports Coaching: Professionalisation and Practice, Edinburgh, Elsevier.
  • Garratt, D. and Piper, H. (2009) ‘Inclusive Education: Where are the Gypsies and Travellers?' In D. Kassem and D. Garratt (eds) Key Issues in Education, London, Continuum.
  • Kassem, D. and Garratt, D. (2009) ‘Why do politicians always sound the same?' In D. Kassem and D. Garratt (eds) Key Issues in Education, London, Continuum.
  • Piper, H. and Garratt, D. (2007) ‘Monarchy, Citizenship and Tourism', in P. Long and N. Palmer (eds) Royal Tourism: Excursions around Monarchy, North Somerset, Channel View.
  • Garratt, D. and Crook, C. (2005) The Positivist Paradigm in Contemporary Social Science Research, in B. Somekh and C. Lewin (eds) Research Methods in the Social Sciences, London, Sage.
  • Garratt, D. and Li, Y. (2005) Foundations of Experimental/Empirical Research Methods, in B. Somekh and C. Lewin (eds) Research Methods in the Social Sciences, London, Sage.
  • Garratt, D. (2003) ‘Education for Citizenship' In S. Bartlett and D. Burton (eds), Education Studies: Essential Issues, London, Sage.
  • Phillips, R. Piper, H. and Garratt, D. (2003) ‘Citizenship Education in the United Kingdom: A ‘Home International Analysis', in M. Williams and G Humphrys (eds) Citizenship Education and Lifelong Learning: Power and Place, London, Falmer.
    Garratt, D. and Shallcross, A. (2003) ‘Ideology and Curriculum Theory: Whole School Approaches to Education for Sustainable Development', in K. Crawford (ed.) Contemporary Issues in Education: an introduction, Dereham, Norfolk, Peter Francis.
    Garratt, D. and Robinson, J. (1999) ‘Reconceptualising Environmental Education: Values or Action?' In D. Lawton, J. Cairns and R. Gardner (eds), Values and the Curriculum: The School Context, London, Institute of Education, University of London Press.
  • Garratt, D. and Robinson, J. (1998) ‘Citizenship, national identity and the Europeanisation of the Curriculum', in D. Woodrow, G. Verma, M. Rocha Trindade, G. Campani, C. Bagley (eds), Intercultural Education: Theories, Policies and Practice, Ashgate, Hants.

 

Conference proceedings

  • Cairns, C., Garratt, D., Gilroy, P. and Saxon, D. (2002) ‘Are FE/HE Staff ICT Competent? A report from the tRISSt research project' Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Networked Learning 2002, Lancaster University and the University of Sheffield, 378-384.

Conference papers

  • Pherali, T. and Garratt, D. (2010) Post-conflict Identity Crisis in Nepal: Opportunities for Reconstruction? Paper presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 1st-4th September, University of Warwick.
  • Garratt, D. and Piper, H. (2010) Citizenship education and philosophical enquiry: putting the thinking back into practice, Presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 1st-4th September, University of Warwick.
  • Garratt, D. (2010) ‘Race' and citizenship in Britain: a crisis in political literacy? Presented to the 6th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, 26th-29th May, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.
  • Garratt, D. (2010) ‘Sporting Citizenship' in Britain: the rebirth of religion? Presented to the 6th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, 26th-29th May, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.
  • Awad, S., Garratt, D. and Forrester, G. (2010) Matters of faith: an ethnographic study of two primary schools, presented to the Discourse, Power and Resistance Annual International Conference, 30th March-1st April, University of Greenwich, London.
  • Taylor, B., Piper, H. & Garratt, D. (2009). ‘"Hands-off coaching": presumed guilt and the politics of touch', presented to the International Council for Coach Education, Global Coach Conference, 12th -15th November, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Garratt, D. (2009) ‘Sporting Citizenship': the rebirth of religion? Presented to the Annual International Conference of the British Educational Research Association, 2-5th September, Manchester University, Manchester.
  • Hammersley-Fletcher, H. and Garratt, D. (2009) ‘Academic identities in flux: the interrelationship of structures, leadership and academics in a post-1992 University' presented to the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society Annual Conference, 3rd to 5th July, Sheffield University, Sheffield.
  • Garratt, D. and Hammersley-Fletcher, H. (2009) ‘Academic identities in flux: ambivalent articulations in a post-1992 university', presented to the Discourse, Power and Resistance Annual International Conference, 6-8th April, Manchester Metropolitan University and Plymouth University, Manchester.
  • Chew, M., Grant, D., Garratt, D. and Hodkinson, A. (2008) ‘The evolution of home economics in England and Malaysia', presented to the International Federation of Home Economics World Congress for Home Economics, July 26th to 1st August, Lucerne, Switzerland.
  • Taylor, B. and Garratt, D. (2008) ‘The professionalisation of sports coaching - challenging discourses and shifting identities', presented to the 4th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, 14-17th May, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.
  • Taylor, B. and Garratt, D. (2008) ‘The professionalisation of sports coaching: relations of power, resistance and compliance', presented to the Discourse, Power, Resistance Annual International Conference, 18-20th March 2008, Manchester Metropolitan University and Plymouth University, Manchester.
  • Taylor, B. and Garratt, D. (2007) ‘The professionalisation of sports coaching: some vignettes of experience', presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 6-8th September 2007, Institute of Education, University of London, London.
  • Garratt, D. and Pickard, A. (2007) ‘Tales of reflexive learning: Knowing less and seeking more in student experience', presented to the British Education Studies Association Annual Conference, 6-7th July 2007, Bath Spa University, Bath.
  • Piper, H. and Garratt, D. (2005) ‘Inclusive Education? Where are the Gypsies and Travellers?' presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 15-18th September 2005, University of Glamorgan, Wales.
  • Garratt, D. (2005) ‘Forgotten Minorities: the case of gypsy traveller education' presented to the First National Conference of the British Education Studies Association, 1st-2nd July 2005, University College Chester, Chester.
  • Garratt, D. and Piper, H. (2004) ‘3Ps to Inclusive Citizenship: Performativity, Permeability and the Post-Modern' presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 16-18th September 2004, UMIST, Manchester.
  • Piper, H. and Garratt, D. (2003) ‘Identity and Citizenship: a contradiction in practice' presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 11-13th September 2003, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
  • Shallcross, A. and Garratt, D. (2003) ‘A Citizenship Values Award: Insights into professional issues and identity? presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 11-13th September 2003, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
  • Garratt, D. and Piper, H. (2002) ‘Citizenship and Monarchy: Unconscious Bedfellows?' presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 12-14th September 2002, University of Exeter, Exeter.
  • Garratt, D., Gilroy, P. and Saxon, D. (2002) ‘New Technology in Further and Higher Education - Tales from the tRISSt Project' presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 12-14th September, 2002, University of Exeter, Exeter.
  • Saxon, D., Garratt, D. and Gilroy, P. (2002) ‘Collecting Data in the Information Age: exploring web based survey methods in educational research' presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 12-14th September, 2002, University of Exeter, Exeter.
  • Garratt, D., Gilroy, P. and Saxon, D. (2002) ‘Do Staff Need the ECDL?': Outcomes from the tRISSt project, presented to the ECDL in Academia Conference, 11th July 2002, University of Sheffield, Sheffield.
  • Garratt, D., Gilroy, P. and Saxon, D. (2002) ‘Putting Research into Practice' - We've got the money ... now what do we do? Methodological reflections within an externally funded collaborative HE/FE research project' presented to the Learning and Skills Research Network Conference, 21st June 2002, Whalley Range, Manchester.
  • Garratt, D., Gilroy, P. and Saxon, D. (2002) ‘Are FE/HE Staff ICT Competent? A report from the tRISSt research project' presented to the Third International Conference on Networked Learning, 26-28th March 2002, University of Sheffield, Sheffield.
  • Garratt, D. (1999) ‘Reading the Crick Report: some problems and possibilities' presented to the Citizenship Education and the Secondary School Conference, 17th June 1999, Didsbury School of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester.
  • Garratt, D. (1999) ‘Standpoints and Educational Researchers', presented to the British Educational Research Annual Conference, 2-5th September 1999, University of Sussex, Brighton.
  • Garratt, D. and Hodkinson, P. (1997) ‘Can There be Criteria for Selecting Research Criteria? - A Hermeneutical Analysis of an Inescapable Dilemma', presented to the British Educational Research Annual Conference, 11-14th September 1997, University of York, York.
  • Garratt, D. (1997) ‘Changing Standpoints - Changing Horizons: the place of the researcher in qualitative inquiry', presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 11-14th September 1997, University of York, York.
  • Garratt, D. (1997) ‘Serendipity: Problems of Illumination and Blindness', presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 11-14th September 1997, University of York.
  • Garratt, D. and Robinson, J. (1997) ‘Reconceptualising Environmental Education: Values or Action?' Presented to the Values and the Curriculum Conference, 10-11th April 1997, Institute of Education, University of London, London.
  • Garratt, D. (1996) ‘Codes of Discipline and Examination League Tables as Régimes of Truth: a case study of teachers' values within the classroom', presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 12-15th September 1996, University of Lancaster, Lancaster.