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Direct linkPeacock, Alan; Dunne, Mick – Primary Science, 2014
In this "Primary Science" interview, science educators Alan Peacock and Mick Dunne reflect on their own experiences of what science was like in England before a National Curriculum was introduced. Among the topics covered are: earliest memories of science in school, teaching science before 1988 (pre-science curriculum for primary…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Education History, Science Curriculum, Teacher Attitudes
Ryder, Jim; Banner, Indira; Homer, Matt – School Science Review, 2014
We report on a three-year study of teachers' experiences of a major reform of the science National Curriculum for 14- to 16-year-olds in England. Teachers' responses to this curriculum reform were guided by: "personal" aims and biography; "internal" features of their workplace such as departmental collegiality; and…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Teaching Experience, Educational Change
Byrne, J.; Shepherd, J.; Dewhirst, S.; Pickett, K.; Speller, V.; Roderick, P.; Grace, M.; Almond, P. – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This paper presents findings from a survey of pre-service teacher training institutions in England with regard to the provision of health and well-being education. It examines factors affecting the inclusion of health and well-being, and explores educational implications in light of the changing landscape of pre-service teacher education in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Health Education
Dixon, Liz; Jennings, Ann; Orr, Kevin; Tummons, Jonathan – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2010
The placement in colleges is a crucially formative experience for trainee teachers on pre-service Further Education (FE) initial teacher training courses. A project at the University of Huddersfield researched these placements in four colleges in the north of England and the relationships that were formed between the trainees, their mentors, other…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Ethnography, Adult Education, Foreign Countries
Ellis, Viv – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2010
Pre-service teacher education in England has been essentially school-based since 1992. The article offers a critique of this design from the perspective of a practitioner and researcher working in one of its most influential schemes. The fundamental problem described concerns an impoverished understanding of experience that underpins how beginning…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers
Webb, Rosemary; Vulliamy, Graham; Sarja, Anneli; Hamalainen, Seppo; Poikonen, Pirjo-Liisa – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
The article is a comparative analysis of the policy and practice of professional learning communities (PLCs) in primary schools in England and Finland. The concept of PLC has become a globally fashionable one and has been explicitly advocated in policy documents in both countries. Drawing from a database of qualitative semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Interviews, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Fumoto, Hiroko; Robson, Sue – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
This paper reports on the second phase of the Froebel Research Fellowship project "Ownership and Autonomy in Early Childhood" (2003-5). Based on the first phase of the project (Robson and Hargreaves, 2005), a questionnaire survey of 80 professionals working in the Foundation Stage (age 3-5) in England was conducted to obtain an overview…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Teaching Experience, Nursery Schools
