Dr Jenny Hallam

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Job title: Lecturer in Psychology

Email: j.hallam@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: (01332) 593060
Room: N210

Recent publications

Barlow, C. M., Jolley, R. P. & Hallam, J. L. (in press). Drawings as Memory Aids: Optimising the Drawing Method to Facilitate Young Children's Recall. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Hallam, J., Das Gupta, M., and Lee, H.A.N. (2009) An Analysis of the Presentation of Art in the Curriculum and its Implications for Teaching. Chapter in Hern, S., Cox, S., and Watts, R. (Eds) Readings in Primary Art Education. Bristol: Intellect Books.

Hallam, J., Das Gupta, M., and Lee, H.A.N. (in press) Painting dinosaurs - the ways in which a Reception class context shapes and limits children's opportunities to creative expressive art. Chapter in Faulkner, D. & Coates, E. (Eds) (2011) Exploring Children's Creative Narratives London, Routledge.

Hallam, J., Das Gupta, M., & Lee, H. (2008) An Exploration of Primary School Teachers' Understanding of Art and the Place of Art in the Primary School Curriculum. Curriculum Journal. Vol 19(4).

Hallam, J., Lee, H., & Das Gupta, M. (in press). An Investigation into the ways in which Art is taught in English Reception classes. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Hallam, J., Lee, H., & Das Gupta, M. (2009) An Analysis of the Presentation of Art in the British Primary School Curriculum and its Implications for teaching. Chapter in S. Herne and S. Cox (Eds) Readings in Primary Art Education.

Hallam, J., Lee, H., & Das Gupta, M. (2007) An Analysis of the Presentation of Art in the British Primary School Curriculum and its Implications for teaching. International Journal of Art and Design Education 26.2 pp 206 - 214

Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences

School: School of Science

Subject Area: Psychology

Teaching responsibilities

I teach online and on campus learners at undergraduate level.

Online

Introduction to Developmental Psychology (4PS050) - Module leader
Introduction to Social Psychology (4PS052)
Qualitative Methods in Psychology (5PS069) - Module leader
Contemporary Social Psychology (6PS081) - Module leader

On campus

Practicals in Psychology (4PS042)
Fundamentals of Psychology 1 (4PS037)
Research Methods and Analysis (1,2 and 3)
Social Psychology (5PS060)

Professional interests

I completed my PhD 'A Critical Analysis of Art Education in English Primary Schools' at Staffordshire University in 2008. My PhD research used ethnographic methods informed by social constructionism to explore the educational contexts which shape children's artistic development. The thesis brought a new research approach to the study of child art within developmental psychology and sought to identify educational practices which could be detrimental to the development of expression in children's artwork.

Research interests

My current research interests centre on -

1) Exploring children's experiences of art in the classroom and how children would like to see art taught.

2) Designing, implementing and evaluating art interventions designed to enable primary teachers to teach art more effectively.

3) Investigating how art is taught and evaluated by teachers working in different educational systems (State, Steiner and Montessori).

4) Examining how child artists and non artists conceptualise artistic processes.

Recent Conferences

Hallam, J., Lee, H., & Das Gupta, M., (2009) 'Creating creative approaches to art teaching: the need for training' Paper Presented at BPS Psychology of Education Section Annual Conference, Preston, 31^st October - 1^st November.

Hallam, J., Lee, H., & Das Gupta, M., (2009). The Social Mediation of Artistic Processes in English Primary School Classrooms. Paper Presented at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction. University of Amsterdam, 25^th - 29^th August.

Hallam, J., Lee, H., & Das Gupta, M., (2008) Exploring the Co-creation of Child Art in an Educational Context. Paper Presented at BPS Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference, Oxford Brookes University, 1-3 September.

Hallam, J. and Sunney, C. (2010). Inner knowing and spiritual knowledge: An investigation into the construction of religion and unstructured spirituality. Paper presented at the Exploring the Extraordinary conference York 24 - 25 September

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