Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Mandy Pierlejewski
Senior Lecturer
Mandy Pierlejewski is a senior lecturer in the Carnegie School of Education. She is level 6 leader on undergraduate primary education degrees and supervises MA and doctoral students.
Mandy teaching focuses on communication and language skills, including first and second language acquisition. She also teaches music education at level 4 and 5. She leads and teaches on the dissertation module for the Primary 3-7 QTS degree where she specialises in approaches to research.
In addition to her undergraduate teaching, Mandy also supervises masters' and doctoral students.
Current Teaching
BA (Hons) Primary Education 3-11:
- L4 Language, Communication and Literacy
- L4 Emerging Curriculum Studies
BA (Hons) Primary Education 3-7:
- L5 National Curriculum 1
- L6 Teacher Practitioner Independent Study
- L6 Teaching and Learning 3
BA (Hons) Primary Education 5-11:
- L5 The Primary Foundation Subjects
Dissertation Supervisor MA Childhood Studies and Early Years
Doctoral Supervisor
Research Interests
Mandy's PhD focused on the datafication of early years, investigating the impact of datafication on pedagogy and subjectivity. She developed an approach known as doppelganger as method to investigate situations involving conflict. This approach involves asking where a double or second version of the subject exists and how it functions as a technology of power.
Mandy is currently researching teacher education in light of recent changes to policy as well as continuing to develop doppelganger as method.
Ask Me About
- Children
- Early years
- Education
- Teacher training
- Teaching
Selected Outputs
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Pierlejewski M (2023) Doppelganger as Method. In: Christinaki A; Burman E; Black L; Cassal L; Wu W eds. Child as Method International Symposium, 5 June 2023 - 7 June 2023, Manchester, UK.
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Pierlejewski M (2017) Constructing and maintaining data doppelgangers: rethinking early years assessment in England. In: Discourse Unit Global Seminar, 29 June 2017 - 30 June 2017, The University of Manchester.
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Pierlejewski M (2023) Pupils or products [Online]
Available from: https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/dr-mandy-pierlejewski/
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Pierlejewski M (2023) Developing doppelganger as method [Online]
Available from: https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/dr-mandy-pierlejewski/
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Pierlejewski M (2019) Even more tests for most tested children in the world [Online] The Conversation.
Available from: https://theconversation.com/even-more-tests-for-most-tested-children-in-the-world-122289
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Olusoga Y; Pierlejewski M (2018) Bold beginnings or black holes? The encroachment of summative assessment into the reception curriculum [Online] British Educational Research Association.
Available from: https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/bold-beginnings-or-black-holes
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Pierlejewski M (2018) Ofsted want to introduce more formal teaching practices-this is a potential disaster for children’s learning [Online] The Conversation.
Available from: https://theconversation.com/ofsted-want-to-introduce-more-formal-teaching-practices-this-is-a-potential-disaster-for-childrens-learning-90719
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Pierlejewski M (2021) “I feel like two different teachers”: the split self of teacher subjectivity. Pedagogy, Culture and Society
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Pierlejewski MJ (2019) The Data-doppelganger and the Cyborg-self: Theorising the Datafication of Education. Pedagogy, Culture and Society
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Pierlejewski MJ (2019) Constructing Deficit Data-Doppelgängers: The Impact of Datafication on Children with English as an Additional Language. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
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Horsley N; Gillies V; Pierlejewski M (2023) Calibrating Children and Families - Data Behaviourism and the New Algorithmic Logic: a discussion with Val Gillies.
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Pierlejewski M (2022) Datafication: from Doppelganger to Praxis A teacher’s story.
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Pierlejewski M; Vamosi G (2021) A Romani analysis of English preschool education. In: Kinard T; Cannella GS ed. Childhoods in More Just Worlds: an International Handbook. Gorham, Maine: Myers Education Press,
