A new paper from the PETE project, about to be published in the British Educational Research Journal and co-authored with David Spendlove from Manchester, reports on our study of the… Read more Bargaining for change: School Direct and ITE reform in England →
Teacher education is now characterised by greater organisational diversity in provision in many countries. Markets or quasi-markets for teacher ed programmes are not a universal feature, of course, but even… Read more From landscape to political economy: change in teacher education →
The Sage Handbook of Research on Teacher Education edited by D. Jean Clandinin and Jukka Husu has finally been published – and what a beautiful monster! Two volumes and so… Read more The Sage Handbook of Research on Teacher Education →
Having said several times recently that I haven’t done research in English Education/language/literacy for a while, I am reminded that, in fact, I have by the publication of two new… Read more Two new articles on ‘The Uses of Poetry’ →
I am currently working through a weighty archive of documents and interview transcripts about the development of the Oxford Internship Scheme from 1973 to 1987. My friend and colleague Ann… Read more Teaching and Professionalism: An Essay in Ambiguity. A paper by Harry Judge from 1978 →
There are many different Vygotskies. There is the Vygotsky whose theoretical speculations on the relationship between thinking and speech have sometimes become barely recognizable justifications for ‘group work’ in schools.… Read more A Different Vygotsky: New Book on Drama, Learning and the Work of Classrooms →
The first fruits of my British Academy-funded project have finally appeared in the form of an article now published in the Journal of Education Policy. ‘Teaching other people’s children, elsewhere,… Read more New article on ‘Teach for All’ published in Journal of Education Policy →
CHAT is, at its core, as with the psychology of Vygotsky that underpins it, a methodological project; it is about seeing the world and acting on it in specific ways.… Read more CHAT blog 2: Understanding CHAT as a methodological project →
