Staff Profile
Dr James Stanfield
Lecturer
- Email: james.stanfield@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: 07966 865 860
- Personal Website: https://jamesbstanfield.wordpress.com/
- Address: B83 King George VI Building
School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
Newcastle University
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
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Background
James is a Lecturer in the Future of Learning and his research interests include:
- understanding the impact of the Internet on teaching and learning;
- investigating how Self-Organised Learning Environments (SOLE) evolve over time;
- understanding the relevance of complexity theory across the sector as a whole;
- understanding the relevance of the Principles for Digital Development to help deliver the Sustainable Development Goals in education.
His current research is looking into the impact on student voice of introducing Self Organised Learning Environments (SOLE) in schools and daycare centres in Moldova, Ukraine and Romania.
James is the Module Leader for the follow modules:
- EDU8213 - The Future of Learning in the Digital Age
- EDU8230 - Investigating Leadership and Technology for Teaching and Learning.
- EDU1008 - Adventures in Digital Learning
James was Chair of the University Task and Finish Group on Learning Analytics from 2017-2018 and he is also a member of the steering group for NUTELA - Newcastle University Advocates for Technology Enhanced Learning and the Technology Enhanced Learning Sub-Committee of the Faculty Education Committee.
Supervision
Each year James is the dissertation supervisor for several MA students on the MA International Development in Education and the MA Education: International Perspectives.
James is also currently helping to supervise the following PhD students:
- Amer Ashahre - Exploring Computational Thinking through Digital Visualisation
- Mohammad Atyah H Albshry - Flipping the virtual classroom through gamification: Investigating its effect on students intrinsic motivation and achievement in Saudi Higher Education.
- Gemma Mitchelson - Managing boundaries of place with use your own device in the classroom
- Jing Jang - Investigating impacts of integrating dialogic discussion in EFL flipped classroom: a case study in a Chinese University
- Gillian Brown -
- Sarah Robson - A phenomenographic study of students concepts of academic conduct in UK higher education
- Fahad Abdullah A Alshamran - Investigating the impact of gamified formative assessment on students engagement and performance within virtual classes in Saudi higher education
Completed PhD's
- Mohammed Alwagdani - Investigating the Impact of Flipped Learning on Computer Science Students' Achievements, Motivation, Engagement and Learning Autonomy in Saudi Arabia High Schools
- Khadija Mohamud (Open University) - Investigating the Impact of Independent Edtech Learning Kiosks in Uganda.
- Fatma Otain - Future of Learning: A Case Study of the Implementation of SOLE in a Saudi Primary School
- Leonidia Lymperi - Deep language learning at a distance: Investigating the efficacy of a low-cost blended intervention in the small rural primary schools of Greece
- Shatha Mohammed M Almalki - A narrative study to explore Saudi pre-service school teachers experiences of using electronic reflective journals during their field experience.
- Sally Rix - Self Organised Learning Environments: Appropriation in an English Secondary School Context.
- Malik Hamed Saif Al Zakwani - Developing Proficiency in the Context of English as a Foreign language Learning in a Foreign Language Centre in Oman: An Action Research of the Application of a SOLE Pedagogy.
- Yang Du - Electronic Devices as a Resource for Getting 'On Task' and Deepening Group Knowledge: a Multimodal Conversation Analytic investigation of a Self Organised Learning Environment at a UK university.
- Gopal Iyer - The effectiveness of the Right to Education (RTE) Act in Delphi, India.
- Edward Bannerman Wood - Stakeholders perception of the work of the non-academic middle managers in two universities Ghana.
I am currently applying for internal funding to help support a research project to better understand the levels of digital literacy of new undergraduate students in ECLS, the Business School and School X.
Using SOLE Across Boundaries in Romania, Ukraine and Moldova, CARITAS 2017-2019 (£90,000)
Investigating the use of tablet computers in Tanzania - the student and teacher perspective 2016-2018 (£39,000)
Data was collected from over 40 schools and colleges located across Tanzania to help better understand the opportunities and challenges of using tablet computers to help support children's learning.
School in the Cloud TED Prize 2013-2017 ($1 million)
From 2013 - 2017 James worked alongside Professor Sugata Mitra on the $1 million TED Prize School in the Cloud project. James supported the development of the School in the Cloud global platform and the development of SOLE projects in different countries around the world: SOLE Colombia, SOLE Australia, START SOLE (USA), SOLE Argentina. The accumulation of this work resulted in SOLE being identified as one of the top 100 global innovations in education in 2018 by the Finnish organisation, hundrED.
Consultancy
From 2015-2018 James was the lead Education Consultant on the Human Development Innovation Fund (HDIF) - a £40 million DfID challenge fund in Tanzania. James helped to assess new funding applications and provided technical support to all education grantees. James also led on the development of case studies relating to the Principle for Digital Development. Download the report Digital Innovation for Social Change: Principles into Practice (2018) and the related case studies. This consultancy work generated an income of over £350,000 and it also led to additional research funding (see above).
Professional activities
- Investigating Student Collaboration within Self Organised Learning Environments, a paper presented at International Conference on Modern Research in Education, Training and Learning - 5-7 June 2019.
- Module leader: EDU1008 - Adventures in Digital Learning
- Module leader: EDU8213 - The Future of Learning in the Digital Age
- Module leader: EDU8218 - Investigating Leadership and Technology for Teaching and Learning
- Stanfield J. Parental choice and the right to education: Revisiting Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report 2021, 30.
- Sindi A, Stanfield J, Sheikh A. Technology in Education: Attitudes Towards using Technology in Nutrition Education. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 2021, Volume 12, Issue 2, 2021(2), 59-71. In Preparation.
- Vega N, Stanfield J, Mitra S. Investigating the impact of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) to help improve reading comprehension in low performing urban elementary schools. Education and Information Technologies 2020, 25, 1571-1584.
- Stanfield J, Calder G, Mlowe O, Kaemdim M. Edtech Innovations in Tanzania: Investigating student and teacher perceptions. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Human Development Innovation Fund (HDIF), 2018.
- Mitra S, Kulkarni S, Stanfield J. Learning at the Edge of Chaos: Self-Organising Systems in Education. In: Lees, HE; Noddings, N, ed. The Palgrave International Handbook of Alternative Education. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp.227-239.
- Stanfield J. Affordable learning: transforming education at the bottom of the pyramid. In: Pauline Dixon, Steve Humble and Chris Counihan, ed. Handbook of International Development and Education. Cheltenham, Gloucester, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2015, pp.131-148.
- Stanfield JB. Profit in education, not a dirty word. IoD Big Picture 2012, (Winter), 5.
- Stanfield J. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid in Education. In: Stanfield, J, ed. The Profit Motive in Education - Continuing the Revolution. London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2012, pp.96-119.
- Stanfield J, ed. The Profit Motive in Education: Continuing the Revolution. London: Institute of Economic Affairs & Profile Books, 2012.
- Stanfield J. A freedom-based approach. Economic Affairs 2010, 30(2), 87-87.
- Stanfield J. Education for All - A Freedom Based Approach. In: Elliott, Fourali, and Issler, ed. Education and Social Change: Connecting Local and Global Perspectives. Continuum Books, 2010.
- Stanfield JB. Education for All by 2015: A Freedom Based Approach (pdf). E.G. West Centre Working Paper 2010, 1-13.
- Stanfield J. The broken university: What is seen and what is not seen in the UK higher education sector. Economic Affairs 2010, 30(3), 53-58.
- Stanfield J. The Broken University: What is seen and what is not seen in the UK higher education sector. Adam Smith Institute, 2010.
- Stanfield J. The rise and fall of for-profit libraries. Economic Affairs 2010, 30(3), 95-95.
- Stanfield J. Why not Tesco schools, Sir Terry?. Economic Affairs 2010, 30(1), 105.
- Stanfield J. Ban all political interference with university tuition fees. Economic Affairs 2009, 29(4), 100.
- Stanfield J. Privatise all business and law schools. Economic Affairs 2009, 29(3), 107.
- Stanfield J. The Introduction of Free Primary Education in Kenya. In: James, V., Etim, J.S, ed. Educational Reform in Africa: Essays on Curriculum, Libraries, Counseling, and Grade Levels. Lampeter, UK: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009, pp.209-224.
- Stanfield J. The profit motive in education. Economic Affairs 2009, 29(2), 90.
- Stanfield J. The rise and fall of human capital theory. Economic Affairs 2009, 29(1), 100.
- Stanfield J. Africa's great leap backward. Economic Affairs 2008, 28(3), 76.
- Stanfield J. Another hole in the wall. Economic Affairs 2008, 28(2), 91.
- Stanfield J. Crowding out in education. Economic Affairs 2008, 28(4), 84.
- Tooley J, Dixon P, Stanfield J. Impact of Free Primary Education in Kenya: A Case Study of Private Schools in Kibera. Educational Management, Administration & Leadership 2008, 36(4), 449-469.
- Stanfield J. The secret history of higher education in the USA. Economic Affairs 2008, 28(1), 79-.
- Stanfield J. For-profit charities in education. Economic Affairs 2007, 27(4), 83.
- Stanfield J. Market-based management in education. Economic Affairs 2007, 27(1), 88.
- Stanfield J, Tooley J. Private Universities around the World. In: de Burgh, Fazackerley, A; Black, A, ed. Can the Prizes Still Glitter? The Future of British Universities in a Changing World. Buckingham: The University of Buckingham Press, 2007.
- Stanfield J. The Austrian economics of education. Economic Affairs 2007, 27(2), 100-.
- Stanfield J. The Broken University. Economic Affairs 2007, 27(3), 101-.
- Stanfied J. The Right to Choose: Yes Prime Minister!: Road Map to Reform: Education. London: Adam Smith Institute, 2007.
- Stanfield J. For-profit 'faireducation' comprehensive schooling. Economic Affairs 2006, 26(4), 81-81.
- Stanfield J. Free to choose: Yes, Prime Minister. Economic Affairs 2006, 26(3), 79-79.
- Tooley J, Stanfield J. Market Solutions for British Education. In: Roy, S., Clarke. J, ed. Margaret Thatcher's Achievement: How it Happened and What it Meant. London and New York: Continuum Books, 2006, pp.135-152.
- Stanfield J. Seldon's charge. Economic Affairs 2006, 26(1), 72-72.
- Stanfield J. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) on education. Economic Affairs 2006, 26(2), 80-80.
- Stanfield J. Adam Smith on education. Economic Affairs 2005, 25(2), 56.
- Tooley J, Stanfield J. Editorial: 'Education for all' through privatisation?. Economic Affairs 2004, 24(4), 2-3.
- Tooley J, Dixon P, Stanfield J. Delivering Better Education: market solutions to education. London: Adam Smith Institute, 2003. Adam Smith Institute Better Education Project 1902737407.
- Tooley J, Stanfield J. Government Failure: E.G. West on Education. London, UK: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2003.