On 4th July this year, the writer and campaigner Melissa Benn gave the Annual Education Lecture at King’s College London. To a full house in the Great Hall at the… Read more Responding to Melissa Benn: ‘We need to bring public education back into public hands’ →
Transformation has, rather like innovation, become a popular way of describing of change, perhaps especially in public services. There are several books with ‘transforming teacher education’ somewhere in the title… Read more Transformation: What exactly does it mean? →
… by which I mean the ‘real’ North, the far North, the Arctic. Norway’s current teacher education reforms are highly distinctive internationally. They take a bi-directional approach that is unusual:… Read more Teacher education reform in the North →
Some words are high frequency words in our public discourse about change in education, and change in teacher education, particularly. But the frequency of word-use alone does not necessarily tell… Read more Innovation, evidence, reform: Key words in the vocabulary of change in teacher education →
But there come times – perhaps this is one of them Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in June this year, King’s College London and Teachers College, Columbia… Read more A Centre for Innovation in Teacher Education and Development – CITED →
I’ll be talking at the 2017 SCOTENS conference in Dundalk in a few weeks, on the conference theme of Educational innovation – the challenge of evidence-informed change. SCOTENS – the… Read more SCOTENS Conference: 13-14 October, Dundalk, Ireland →
InF0-TED is an emerging European (and increasingly international) cooperation between teacher educators interested in the improvement of their field, particularly in relation to the induction of and continuing professional development… Read more The Induction and Development of Teacher Educators: Responding to the InFo-TED Symposium at BERA →
If you were a newly-qualified teacher of English today, would you know who James Britton was? If you had done a PGCE, it is an interesting question. As an English… Read more London Conference on the Legacy of James Britton – IOE, 12th March 2016 →
