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 →
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’ →
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 →
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 …? →
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? →
… 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 →
