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 →
Imagine this: The headteacher of a large secondary school takes over the Department of Education at the local university. Other school teachers from different parts of England join the new… Read more Curriculum, educational research, partnership: three of Harry Judge’s Oxford papers →
I recently tweeted about the successful outcome to a research funding application that will bring together a group of researchers to carry out an intervention study in the teacher education… Read more Learning, Assessment and Boundary-Crossing in Teacher Education (LAB-Ted): New research project →
The ways that schools have changed in England since 2010 are pretty obvious to see. Ideas like ‘academies’, initially proposed by New Labour for ‘failing’ schools, have become (more or… Read more The Changing Landscape of Teacher Development →
Teacher research groups have been a feature of the Chinese school system for over 50 years, including outside the special regions (such as Shanghai and Bejing) with which westerners are… Read more Teacher research groups in a Chinese primary school: What if …? →
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? →
It was bound to happen here …. For a couple of years now I’ve been studying the ‘innovation’ of game-like, avatar simulations in teacher preparation. The spark that lit my… Read more The avatars are coming! But is it innovation in teacher education? →
Professor Viv Ellis 