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These are ‘Key Messages’ from recent
@Ofstednews
training for inspectors taking place around the country. Three inspectors have now separately told me of their unease. Points on the handout below are recap of previous training conferences for schools inspectors in England 1/6
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First day in new role as Dean
@MonashEducation
- thanks to
@ProvostParlange
and colleagues in the Faculty for such a warm welcome online this morning/afternoon. Greetings to new colleagues from here in
#Hove
and looking forward to joining you soon at
#Clayton
!
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Thank you to
@MonashUni
for such a warm welcome! I’m honoured to be appointed to lead
@MonashEducation
and really looking forward to starting work in June. I’ll be joining a truly outstanding team.
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12-09-23
TEACHER EDUCATION IN CRISIS
@BloomsburyAcEd
#ITE
#MarketReview
#CoreContent
#ECF
#Accreditation
#England
#Edpolicy
#teachereducation
#Openaccess
[*Free* e-book]
Launched
@BERANews
conference symposium 1/4
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Thanks to the 100+ people who came along to our
@BERANews
symposium today in sweltering indoor temperatures 🙏🏻
You can get a ** FREE ** download of TEACHER EDUCATION IN CRISIS: THE STATE, THE MARKET AND THE UNIVERSITIES IN ENGLAND at
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It’s one year since I commenced as Dean
@MonashEducation
. I started on Zoom and am now back on Zoom. What a year! Thank you
@MonashUni
for the trust & warm welcome. Thank you
@VictorianCHO
for looking after me. 😊
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Some fab facts about
@MonashEducation
: Number 1 - the Faculty is ranked number 1 in Australia and 12th in the world 2020
#ARWU
&
#QSWUR
. It is a result of years of work, resourcing and commitment from our staff
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CRISIS, WHAT CRISIS? What’s going on in
#ITE
in England is worthy of international examination - & not in a good way. New
#OpenAccess
book coming soon
@BloomsburyAcEd
with contributions from brilliant teacher education researchers
#MarketReview
#CCF
#ECF
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I have resigned from
@Ofstednews
External Advisory Group on ITE, concerned about its independence, the nature of senior official’s public communications & the composition of expert groups. But if I was in any doubt, its surveys of ITE providers on ‘high quality’ curriculum ..?!!
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Arrived Sydney 17 January, thanks to wonderful
@FlyANA_official
, onward into
@Melbourne
31 January 13:35
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After a month in hotels (including half of that in quarantine), first night at home .... 😊
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Q: What do these English universities (that include Russell Group/Go8 as well as those specialising in delivering a diverse teaching workforce ) have in common?
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It was a pleasure to welcome around 370 new students today starting on three of our graduate programmes
@MonashEducation
including 117 international students studying online at a distance. So the Zoom connection today was literally reaching all over the world 🌏🌍🌎
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Teachers in England rate their initial teacher education very highly - 97% saying it was at least satisfactory; 77% good or excellent. Mixed views of early career CPD. Shockingly small numbers with access to regular high quality CPD. Read the report 👇🏻
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Rankings are weak proxies for actual performance in HE (the wealthiest universities always tend to do the best) but underlying any measurement like this is work. And absolutely outstanding work by academic and professional staff across
@MonashEducation
👏👏👏👏
📣 Education at Monash has been ranked
#1
in Australia and
#15
in the world by
@ShanghaiRanking
in 2022. It's a 20 place jump, and testimony to our Monash Education community. These results would not be possible without your hard work and dedication. Thank you 🙌
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1/2 In case anyone thinks ITE hasn't changed much in the last 40 years, this was 1974s exam for the Oxford PGCE
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TEACHER EDUCATION IN CRISIS - published one week today!
#ITE
in
#England
#whatnottodo
- via
@BloomsburyAcEd
.
Chapters by
@Janroweljmu
@DrRLofthouse
@David_Spendlove
@Keith_Turvey
@Melissa_Benn
@steadmansj
@JoeEHanley
@SWConcern
@edmmills
@MariaCampbell00
@ian_cushing
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In the 2 weeks following publication, 800 people have downloaded the TEACHER EDUCATION IN CRISIS book via
Beyond download numbers, it is great to see and hear the impact it’s having.
@BloomsburyAcEd
Thank you 🙏🏻
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A quick trip at lunchtime today to the Peninsula campus
@MonashUni
- different sounds, smells (eucalyptus?) and feel to Clayton and a warm welcome. Looking forward to returning to meet
@MarilynFleer
and Conceptual PlayLab colleagues!
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For our first
@MonashEducation
in-person
#FacultyDay
in … well, forever it seems, a joy to listen to
@boblingard86
talk about the uses of research and ‘impact’
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End of
#Bootcamp
: Our new Heads of School
@MonashEducation
- Professors
@RuthJeanes
@ReupertAndrea
& Jane Southcott. We are *very* lucky
@MonashEducation
😊
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The opening of the Chancellery building
@MonashUni
today - a beautiful indoor/outdoor socially distanced event for a beautiful building.
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Our Research Agenda to 2025
@MonashEducation
- developed collaboratively across the Faculty, led by
@MandiB17
- is available here:
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Thanks to the 413 readers who have downloaded TEACHER EDUCATION IN CRISIS in the 48 hours following publication! 🙏🏻
Currently the most downloaded
@BloomsburyAcEd
open access title 😊
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🎉Out today!🎉
QR code for TEACHER EDUCATION IN CRISIS -
#free
#openaccess
publication from
@BloomsburyAcEd
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It seems that the method of assembling ‘independent’ review groups to deliver pre-determined outcomes has now *really* spun out of the education policy sphere in England ....
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Looking forward to getting back to work
@MonashEducation
tomorrow after a week off, pottering around the neighbourhood and venturing a bit further.... Enjoying my new, rather stately Gazelle Classic.😊
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And again! Live from the
#VCAwards
- VC Award for Community Engagement for
#LeadingVirtualLearning
to
@thinkingmike
@mjhenderson
& Dr Zachari Swiecki 🎉🎉🎉
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Nice to be welcomed home by Australian Border Force and waved through at
#Melbourne
airport with ‘you can take your coat off now, darl’. 😊
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In one image, everything you need to know about education policy in England since 2010
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Live from
#VCAwards
@MonashUni
- Dr Geraldine Burke
@MonashUni
- Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning for
#ArtReach
🎉
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Now gone into production, out in Jan ‘24, from
@policypress
THE NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TEACHER EDUCATION
by
@lauren_gatti
@warwickmansell
& me.
#GFC
#welfarestate
#enterprisenarrative
#shadowstate
#brands
#verticalintegration
#franchises
🇺🇸 🇳🇴🏴
#USA
#England
#Norway
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Our letter in today’s
@guardian
concerning the
#ITEContentFramework
. There is undoubtedly an important place in teacher preparation for the study of learning. This Framework doesn’t offer it:
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An amazing turnout last night for my favourite education event of the year
@MonashEducation
- our annual ‘Mentor Teacher Celebration’. Without great mentoring, there is no
#ITE
🎉🎉
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Out today online and in print Friday
@timeshighered
- why everyone in English universities should be interested in what’s happened to teacher education there 👇🏻
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For international readers of TEACHER EDUCATION CRISIS, out today,
@Melissa_Benn
chapter is probably the best overview of what has happened to education in England since 2010 I’ve seen.
#OpenAccess
Download free from
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And in other news, today I was given perhaps the most perfect hat I have ever seen….
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Thank you to everyone who came to
@MonashEducation
last night and enjoyed free high quality snacks and beverages and to those who watched via YouTube (without the free snacks etc) but engaged in such an extended discussion. I really appreciate you all taking the time.
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Education is the top performing discipline
@MonashUni
in the
@timeshighered
#WorldUniversityRankings
. A testament to the stellar achievements of all staff & students. Congratulations & thanks to all
@MonashEducation
! 🙏
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Thank you to everyone who has asked how I am. I’m very well and feel lucky and grateful to have avoided COVID - thus far at least! In fact, after several months of very long walks every day, I’m feeling very healthy indeed.
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Thrilled that we have appointed Susan Robertson
@CamEdFac
to lead the new School of Education, Culture and Society
@MonashEducation
from June ‘22. Continuing to build a world-leading Faculty of Education whose research and teaching has 🌏 impact!
We are so pleased to announce that Prof Susan L. Robertson has been appointed as our Head of the School of Education, Culture and Society. Susan joins us in June 2022 from
@CamEdFac
and will lead a thriving & dynamic group of academics in the HASS disciplines of education.
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Congratulations to PROFESSOR
@chrisharriKings
- so well deserved and such a good excuse for a party to celebrate the new full Professor of Science Education
@KingsECS
🥂
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Thrilled that
@jolampert
is joining
@MonashEducation
as Professor of Teacher Education for Social Transformation 🙏🎉👏🏻
#changeit
We're thrilled to announce
@jolampert
will be joining our Faculty as Professor of Teacher Education for Social Transformation in 2023.
Jo will lead our strategic thinking on teacher preparation and lead the Faculty Research on Teacher Education, embedded with her expertise.
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The English government has created such a binfire in
#ITE
and
#TPD
#edpolicy
to a point that former favourites & courtiers are now lawyering up to fight the gov’t for their survival. Students, schools & communities continue to lose out to culture wars promoted by the state. 1/7
Exclusive: Ambition Institute want £750k in damages to cover “wasted costs” after IoT snub, while ministers attempt to overturn an injunction so they can name flagship contract winners
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My first ‘in-person, in a room with actual people’ lecture in a very, very long time: please join me for ‘Preparing school teachers: The challenge of transformative agency’, April 21, 18:30 Melbourne time, on campus and live-streamed:
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Truly an outstanding achievement by academic and professional staff
@MonashEducation
- the underlying fact being their hard work and expertise over the last few years 🎉🎉
Some good news from
@THEworldunirank
this morning. Education at Monash has risen 50 places in the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking for 2021 and is now placed 30th globally. Testimony to the hard work and commitment of our staff and colleagues. Thank you 🙌
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Massive congratulations to
@steadmansj
for being awarded an
@ESRC
Post-Doctoral Fellowship via
@lissdtp
🥂🎉🥂 Sarah previously awarded
@ESRC
funding for PhD - so the only person I know in at least 10 years to have won RC funding for both doc and post-doc IN TEACHER EDUCATION!!!
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This is such a good piece from
@Melissa_Benn
exposing the fallacies at the heart of the ‘trad’ vs ‘prog’ rhetoric in English education. And it is such a specifically English problem, it’s remarkable.
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Two inspectors said that without inspectors’ strong prior subject-specific expertise, ‘deep dives’ (which are a key tool with which they judge the 'quality of education') are likely to lead to “generic, headline-grabbing bits of pseudo-science”. 4/6
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Looking forward to this symposium
@BERANews
conference in September with
@DrRLofthouse
@ian_cushing
@Janroweljmu
@Keith_Turvey
@SWConcern
& Ann Childs
@OxfordDeptofEd
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July 10th. The first day I will be able to have a haircut since early March. Good luck, Chris 😳
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Congratulations DR SARAH STEADMAN on an outstanding thesis (‘The Making of Teachers’) & a brilliant viva this afternoon! Pictured with external examiner Prof Kathy Hall whose own research - especially drawing on Britzman - was such a formative influence 😊
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Are you a school teacher in
#Australia
? Do you use
#Twitter
? (Err, maybe?) Do you have a spare hour to join a Zoom focus group, following up an international survey of teacher Twitter use? Great 👍 Please join in! See below for details 🙏🏻
#AussieEd
#edureading
@MonashEducation
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Three days in and 541 downloads of TEACHER EDUCATION IN CRISIS. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thanks to the 413 readers who have downloaded TEACHER EDUCATION IN CRISIS in the 48 hours following publication! 🙏🏻
Currently the most downloaded
@BloomsburyAcEd
open access title 😊
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What’s gone on in teacher education in England, especially since 2019, is worthy of much wider examination *in England* & internationally. This new book - FREE/
#OA
from
@BloomsburyAcEd
- documents what has happened, why - and why other countries should beware:
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Join us Sat 16 December 10:30AM
@IOE_London
for a panel discussion marking paperback publication of TEACHER EDUCATION IN CRISIS
@BloomsburyAcEd
- with
@Melissa_Benn
@Baird_jo_anne
@JoeEHanley
@steadmansj
Caroline Daly & me.
@Rory_Gribbell
@educationgovuk
will be discussant.
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Always difficult to get the language right at times like this but this message from
@KingsCollegeLon
was well-judged and made a massive difference to how colleagues felt 🤜
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These comments from senior leaders in the profession don’t reflect ideological opposition to inspection but their concern about competence in the current inspection system in England and their declining confidence in it. 6/6
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New paper just out in
#europeanjournalofteachereducation
with
@steadmansj
in special issue on ‘Teaching Quality’ with contributions too by
@LDH_ed
@algoodwin_TC
Lily Orland-Barak, Brad Olsen
@BrookingsInst
and many more great researchers.
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It’s been an incredibly busy few weeks
@MonashEducation
- new semester starting as well as the more COVID-specific challenges - but it’s been incredibly heartening to see so many positives: such excellent feedback from our students on semester 1 teaching; 1/4
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Within 1 working day of announcing a return to lockdown in the Greater Melbourne area, the state Department of Education issues advice to all schools on a range of issues including the importance of continuing to work with ITE students.
I guess I’m not in Kansas any more 👠👠
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First work-related trip to
#Sydney
as Dean
@MonashEducation
. Life returning to something like ‘normal’? 🤔
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A feature of the English policy landscape is that the state (in this case the Dept for Education) keeps notes on researchers. This is what one sociolinguistics researcher found out about himself👇🏻
Almost funny until you realise what else they could be doing with their time 😱
got my Subject Access Request back from the DfE. it is no surprise that they don't like my critical work on the word gap. but they also said my work is 'too long' and 'too academic' so DfE colleagues should 'just scan it'. so they haven't even really read it 🙃
#evidencebased
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One of the more surreal events in my life but thank you to the more than 200 colleagues who joined us for our virtual
#covidsafe
Faculty Day
@MonashEducation
. Looking forward to meeting people face to face at smaller events over a cup of tea in the coming weeks!
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Four new
#earlycareer
academic positions
@MonashEducation
- a great package of benefits to accelerate your career in education alongside wonderful colleagues in the
#1
Faculty of Education in Australia. Details here:👇🏻
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I could tell something was happening when I got stuck in a traffic jam getting onto campus…
#MonashOpenDay
@MonashEducation
People!
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But is this a first? Genuine question.
@Ofstednews
now seeking to proscribe what you’re *not* allowed to do in ITE as well as prescribe what you should? From the draft ITE inspection framework:
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Good news as Australia announces a pilot plan to bring back international students from July.
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Are you an education policymaker? Take a look at England & its ministry of education
@educationgovuk
for lessons in how to crash & burn initial teacher education and early career development, destroying infrastructure & creating shortages of teachers where they are most needed.
4.5k potential teacher training places lost due to
#ITTMarketReview
confirms the significant collateral damage due to rhetoric, ideology and ignorance by those who were happy to further themselves at the expense of others…
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In 2015, I wrote this blog about the invocation of the discourse of ‘the market’ in
#ITE
policy in England. As I argued then, it was never about the creation and free operation of a market of ITE providers. It was about state control, pure and simple.
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Can the changes forced on teacher educators by the
#COVID19
pandemic be classed as
#innovation
? Check out
@steadmansj
, Qiming Mao & my new article
#openaccess
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You know a
@MonashEducation
research project is hitting the spot when school principals text you during the researchers’ talk to say how brilliant it is. Bravo
@MonashQProject
What amazing energy and engagement today at the 2022 Education State Principal's Conference! Thank you
@AcademyVIC
for the opportunity to be involved & to the incredible presenters & attendees!🙏✨
Stay in touch:
#eduvicprincipals22
#QURE
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The first winner
@MonashEducation
at this evening’s
@MonashUni
Education, Research & Professional Awards - Dr Leigh Disney 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Really pleased we have announced our new
#MonashTeacherResidency
program in partnership with
@DETVic
- a
@MonashEducation
contribution to post-COVID economic recovery in Victoria and to
#innovation
in
#teachereducation
Aspiring teachers will be paid to learn under a new Monash partnership with
@DETVIC
. It's designed to fast-track quality candidates to teach priority subject areas in regional, rural & hard-to-staff metropolitan secondary schools. 👇
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In the month since publication, over *1000* people have downloaded TEACHER EDUCATION IN CRISIS. While the number is impressive, the unexpected conversations and engagements with diverse stakeholders that have followed have signalled its genuine impact. 1/2
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Explaining to international friends what it feels like now in the UK re COVID-19 is hard. It feels like we’re experiencing a national tragedy but also witnessing a crime. And the lockdown has engendered so much fear that whatever comes next will need to build confidence first
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At the end of my first month
@MonashEducation
it was great to see this video of the campus and the Faculty of Education by one of our fantastic students, Naomi:
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Congratulations to all my colleagues and friends
@MonashUni
@MonashEducation
and throughout
#Melbourne
for living through the recent strict lockdown to this great success in suppressing the virus. Tomorrow, Wednesday, sees significant easing:
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Live from
#VCAwards
@MonashUni
- citation for
@LauraAlfrey
@MonashEducation
for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 🎉
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#ITE
policy in England as a cautionary tale. New book,
#openaccess
, coming soon via
@BloomsburyAcEd
, launched
@BERANews
conference 12/9/23
#TeacherEducationinCrisis
#TEIC
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Shameless book plug: ‘The New Political Economy of Teacher Education: The Enterprise Narrative & the Shadow State’ by
@maxandcleo72
@warwickmansell
& me, coming soon from
@policypress
. We study
#ITE
&
#CPD
policy across England, USA & Norway from
#politicaleconomy
perspective. 7.
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The 2022 promotion round begins! Today the first of two committees for Senior Lecturer applicants from across the three Schools of
@MonashEducation
. Elected and nominated committee members. International assessors. Strong process.
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We are hiring
@MonashEducation
. Now advertised: Senior Lecturer in Literacy Education. Range of research expertise welcome. Check out the advert and position description below and follow up with the contact person for further information.
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