David Pomeroy
@dchpomeroy.bsky.social
Education researcher/teacher educator. Sociology of Education, Mathematics Education, 'Ability' grouping. Senior Lecturer @University of Canterbury, Aotearoa (New Zealand)
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📍What does ability grouping look like in Australian secondary schools? This study reveals deep variation and raises urgent questions about tracking’s reach across subjects, years, and regions. h/t @dchpomeroy.bsky.social
Rigidity of class ability grouping practices in Australia
Inequity in education is pronounced when data is used to form rigid class ability groups. Rigid grouping means that students with backgrounds that disadvantage them in education can be locked into ...
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August 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📍What does ability grouping look like in Australian secondary schools? This study reveals deep variation and raises urgent questions about tracking’s reach across subjects, years, and regions. h/t @dchpomeroy.bsky.social
How secondary mathematics teachers describe and teach ‘ability’ groups: discursive and non-discursive practices. Just out with Dr Jeffery Quaye www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @accessdetracktrack.bsky.social
How secondary mathematics teachers describe and teach ‘ability’ groups: discursive and non-discursive practices
This article examines how teachers with ‘ability’ grouped (set/streamed/tracked) classes describe their students’ learning and behaviour, and how they teach such classes. We draw on teacher and stu...
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August 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
How secondary mathematics teachers describe and teach ‘ability’ groups: discursive and non-discursive practices. Just out with Dr Jeffery Quaye www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @accessdetracktrack.bsky.social
‘When academic knowledge is weaponised by being used as the means of one’s humiliation, the relationship between child and academic knowledge is warped’. Privilege to review "Bottom Set Citizen: Ability grouping in schools" by
Paula Ambrossi doi.org/10.14324/LRE... @accessdetracktrack.bsky.social
Paula Ambrossi doi.org/10.14324/LRE... @accessdetracktrack.bsky.social
Book review: Bottom Set Citizen: Ability grouping in schools – meritocracy’s undeserving, by Paula Ambrossi
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April 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
‘When academic knowledge is weaponised by being used as the means of one’s humiliation, the relationship between child and academic knowledge is warped’. Privilege to review "Bottom Set Citizen: Ability grouping in schools" by
Paula Ambrossi doi.org/10.14324/LRE... @accessdetracktrack.bsky.social
Paula Ambrossi doi.org/10.14324/LRE... @accessdetracktrack.bsky.social