Researching Diversity in Education
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Primary Education: what is and what might be. Cambridge Primary Review Trust National Conference 2016
Online registration is now closed. If you would still like to attend, please email events@bera.ac.uk. Join the Cambridge Primary Review Trust (CPRT) at this one day conference to celebrate the...
How Entrepreneurship Education can reproduce social inequalities
This article argues for the dismantling of the myth of classlessness in entrepreneurship education. Discourse in favour of more entrepreneurship in education has contributed to a process where a...
Continue reading blog postWhy do teachers quit and what could help them to stay?
I recently conducted a study on the reported “national scandal” of teachers leaving the profession. For example, 40% of teachers are found to leave within their first five years (Wilshaw,...
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Vocationalism in Further and Higher Education
One of the most striking characteristics of the post-compulsory education sector in England is the teaching of programmes with a vocational route to work. There is a tenacious underlying...
Continue reading blog postExploring a way of respectively educating pre-service teachers
Tailored around the relationship between teaching and learning, I argue that self-study of teacher education practices (S-STEP) offers a way of respectively prepare pre-service teachers for the...
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Pedagogic research methods: An analysis of the methodological traditions in the UK and Netherlands
This study was inspired as a response to an Erasmus Mobility Grant to the Netherlands. Anecdotal conversations with colleagues there led to a discussion about the different approaches being taken...
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Out of Step? Reflections on the changing role of universities in Initial Teacher Training since 2010
Having worked as a teacher educator since 2006, I’ve observed significant changes and developments from the perspective of my roles in a University and as director of a SCITT. As an evolving...
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Trying to make sense of initial teacher education (ITE) in England – again!
Just over twenty years ago, following a PhD in school based ITE (Articled Teachers, soon to be defunct) to the sound of seagulls in glorious Devon, I found myself in London – part of a big ESRC...
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UCET Annual Conference 2016
8-9 November 2016 Hilton Birmingham Metropole The NEC Birmingham Pendigo Way Birmingham B40 1PP This year’s UCET conference will take place on 8-9 November at the...
Techno-science products for Education. What is on the horizon?
Schools are bombarded with products and courses that claim to be informed by research in Neuroscience and/or Digital Technology. Despite warnings from the OECD, the Royal Society (UK), the...
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Curriculum design of Physics master’s degrees and national pedagogic traditions: implications for degree comparability
In 1999 higher education ministers from 29 European countries signed the Bologna Declaration (currently 49 signatory countries) and committed themselves to the creation of the European Higher...
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