Marcus Bhargava
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education
- Department of Midwifery
- Department of Social Work and Social Care
- Department of Education
- School of Education, Midwifery and Social Work
- Kingston Hill
Head of School of Education, Midwifery and Social Work
- Email:
- m.bhargava@kingston.ac.uk
About
I lead the School of Education, Midwifery and Social Work, with strategic responsibility for the portfolio, research, knowledge exchange, people, and budget. My school leadership group and I aim to provide impactful professional education that makes our students sought after, and helps those they work with to thrive. I am a member of both our Faculty and University's Senior Leadership Group, and the Chair of our Faculty's Education, Diversity, and Inclusion Action Group.
I have worked in higher education since 2004, starting as a lecturer in citizenship education at UCL Institute of Education, University of London before moving onto course leadership roles at London Metropolitan University and then head of initial teacher education at Goldsmiths, University of London. I joined Kingston University in 2015 as Head of School of Education, before founding the new multi-disciplinary school I currently lead in 2020. My background is in history, politics, and citizenship secondary school teaching.
I was a member of the Citizenship subject expert panel for the introduction of the 2008 and 2014 National Curriculum, and was consultant and project lead from 2007-2010 for the KS3 Exemplification of Citizenship Standards project for the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency.
I am Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Association for Citizenship Teaching, and trustee and Chair of the Educational Standards Committee for the Coombe Academy Trust. I represent Kingston University on the University Alliance ITE leads group.
My academic activity focuses on social transformation through education, specifically in relation to citizenship education, teacher agency and innovation in curriculum design.
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)
Domains
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
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
Publications
Effective medium-term planning for teachers
Jerome, Lee and Bhargava, Marcus (2015). Los Angeles, U.S.: (Sage)
Training teachers for and through citizenship : learning from citizenship experiences
Bhargava, Marcus and Jerome, Lee, 2020, Societies (10), 2, pp 36
20 years on : in celebration of the citizenship teacher educator
Bhargava, Marcus J., 2018, Teaching Citizenship (47), pp 23-27
Assessing citizenship
Bhargava, Marcus (2015). In: Gearon, Liam, (ed.), Learning to teach citizenship in the secondary school : a companion to school experience. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 120-135
Power, politics and pedagogy : community organising and citizenship education
Jerome, Lee and Bhargava, Marcus(2012). 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.
Language, culture and identity: using rights as a theme for cross-curricular collaboration between citizenship and modern languages teachers
Bhargava, Marcus and Smith, Rebecca(2010). 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
Establishing a rights respecting initial teacher education course
Bhargava, Marcus, Brook, Victoria and Jerome, Lee(2009). 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
Gallery of work
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Interview in The Guardian, 14 November 2006
I was interviewed for The Guardian when Head of Department for one of the first Citizenship departments in the UK.
