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 →
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 →
‘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 →
Last week saw the annual summer angst-fest that is A-level results day in England and Wales. At a slow time for news, you can guarantee TV news crews will be… Read more Opting out: Public education, state compulsion and democratic rights →
Learning Teaching from Experience will be published, with some minor revisions, in paperback in July. Janet Orchard and I were very honoured to have brought together so many different authors from all… Read more Learning Teaching from Experience: out in paperback in July →
At Teachers’ College, November 2014 It was a real privilege to spend the week at Teachers’ College as guest of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching and a Sachs lecturer… Read more The Week of ‘The Landscape for Preparing Teacher Educators’ →
Bloomsbury have commissioned a new series of books on teacher education to be edited by Marie Brennan, Meg Maguire, Peter Smagorinsky and myself. Entitled Re-inventing Teacher Education, the series will… Read more Bloomsbury commissions new book series: Re-inventing Teacher Education →
The conference in Guilin was fascinating and thrilling. Co-organised by East China Normal University and Guangxi Normal University, its focus was on educational reform in the context of social change.… Read more The Guilin Conference: Education Reform and Social Change →
Professor Viv Ellis 