Marcus Bhargava

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About

I lead the School of Education, Midwifery and Social Work with strategic responsibility for all areas of the School's work including our courses, research and partnerships, government and industry. I support my colleagues to provide professional education that transforms the lives of our students and those they work with.

I am a member of the Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education Leadership Group and Kingston University's Senior Leadership Group.

I am a former London secondary comprehensive school teacher of history, politics and citizenship. In citizenship education, I led one of the first subject departments in the country, helping to shape policy and practice in this important subject and gaining significant national and international attention in the process. In higher education I have been a lecturer in citizenship at UCL Institute of Education and London Metropolitan University as well as leading teacher education at London Metropolitan University and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Academic responsibilities

Head of School

Qualifications

  • MA, History of Education (with Distinction), Institute of Education, University of London (2011)
  • PgCert, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (with Distinction), London Metropolitan University (2009)
  • PGCE History (with QTS), Institute of Education, University of London (1999)
  • BA (Hons) History, University College London (1997)
  • Certification, Teaching and Learning in Citizenship Education, DfES and Institute of Education (2006)
  • Facilitator Diploma, UK Secretariat for the European Pedagogical ICT Licence (2012)
  • Apple Teacher (2019)
  • Safer Recruitment (2022)

Teaching and learning

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

My own research and scholarship interests are in the following areas:

Design thinking in education, specifically how design thinking might be used to support radical transformation in learning conceptualisation and realisation

Curriculum and learning design

Citizenship education

Teacher education 

History of education

I am a member of the International Advisory Board for the journal Education, Citizenship and Social Justice (Sage Publishing).

My Orcid ID is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8111-6771 and a full list of my publications can be found at my Academia page: https://kingston.academia.edu/MarcusBhargava

Publications

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Number of items: 7.

Article

Bhargava, Marcus and Jerome, Lee (2020) Training teachers for and through citizenship : learning from citizenship experiences. Societies, 10(2), p. 36. ISSN (online) 2075-4698

Bhargava, Marcus J. (2018) 20 years on : in celebration of the citizenship teacher educator. Teaching Citizenship, 47, pp. 23-27. ISSN (print) 1474-9335

Book

Jerome, Lee and Bhargava, Marcus (2015) Effective medium-term planning for teachers. Los Angeles, U.S. : Sage. 216p. ISBN 9781446273715

Book Section

Bhargava, Marcus (2015) Assessing citizenship. In: Gearon, Liam, (ed.) Learning to teach citizenship in the secondary school : a companion to school experience. 3rd ed. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 120-135. (Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School Series) ISBN 9780415826471

Conference or Workshop Item

Jerome, Lee and Bhargava, Marcus (2012) Power, politics and pedagogy : community organising and citizenship education. In: Creating Communities : Local, National and Global : Fourteenth Conference of the Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe Academic Network; 24-26 May 2012, York, U.K..

Bhargava, Marcus and Smith, Rebecca (2010) Language, culture and identity: using rights as a theme for cross-curricular collaboration between citizenship and modern languages teachers. In: Lifelong Learning and Active Citizenship : Twelfth Conference of the Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe Academic Network; 20-22 May 2010, Barcelona, Spain.

Bhargava, Marcus, Brook, Victoria and Jerome, Lee (2009) Establishing a rights respecting initial teacher education course. In: Human Rights and Citizenship Education : Eleventh Conference of the Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe Academic Network; 21-23 May 2009, Malmo, Sweden.

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Leadership and management

University responsibilities

  • Member of Faculty Leadership Team (HSSCE)
  • Member of Kingston University Senior Leadership Group
  • Project Leader: Reimagining Learning (Kingston University 2030 Town House Strategy project )

Public and CIVIC roles

  • Chair of Board of Trustees: Association for Citizenship Teaching
  • Trustee: Coombe Academy Trust

Videos of my work

Marcus Bhargava offers some fresh thinking about citizenship within the new curriculum.

National Curriculum: Marcus Bhargava on citizenship

Silos and Synergies – Making the most of multidisciplinary Schools in HE

School of Education at Kingston University Celebrates Centenary with Exhibition

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