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 →
‘Reforming’ teacher education is the go-to policy area in many countries around the world. You can have a bash at teachers (they’re not good enough) and university lecturers (they’re why teachers… Read more The challenge of transformation in teacher education: New article in Acta Didactica Norge →
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 →
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 →
In May 2013, I travelled north to Lancaster, in the north of England, to a conference at which a senior civil servant from the National College for Teaching and Leadership… Read more The market will (not) decide: The creative destruction of England’s teacher education infrastructure →
Prof Valsa Koshy and I will be at the annual Mayor of London’s Education Conference at City Hall on 27th November this year. Valsa will be presenting the findings of… Read more ‘Maths Talk’ at the London Mayor’s Education Conference: 27 November, City Hall →
