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Researching how best to prepare teachers as agentive professionals.

Director: Professor Caroline Daly

About us

Aims

We support teachers to become part of an agentive teaching profession, through research and development that is focused on professional learning and practice within their contexts.

Our aims are to enhance the capacities of teachers as expert professionals who can impact on inequalities. To achieve this the centre works in collaboration with teachers and teacher educators through:

• Researching teaching and teacher education that addresses social, economic and environmental inequalities.Ìý
• Building capacity for critical research engagement in teacher education. Ìý
• Deepening theoretical understanding of teaching and teacher education in complex contexts. Ìý
• Providing research-informed high quality professional learning for teachers through courses, support and resources.

The centre helps prepareÌýthe teaching profession to meet the complex challenges that demand highly skilled and deeply knowledgeable teachers. Our work enables teachers to meet the needs of learners today and in the future, in local communities and across global challenges for education systems.

Team

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• Professor Caroline DalyÌý– Centre Director
• Dr Anna Cook – Senior Research Fellow
• Dr - Associate Professor
• – Research Assistant
• Dr Sally Riordan – Senior Research Fellow
• Dr – Principal Research Fellow.

Visitors

• Vickie Crockett – Fulbright Distinguished Teacher
• – Visiting Scholar,ÌýUniversidade Federal Fluminense (Niteroi, Brazil)
• Professor – Honorary Professor.

Advisory group

• Professor - Associate Dean Research and Knowledge Exchange, University of Brighton
• Professor Aileen Kennedy - Director of Teacher Education, University of Strathclyde
• Professor - Professor of Sociology of Education, Cardiff University
• Professor - Director of the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality at Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University
• Professor - Emeritus Professor of Teacher Education, University of Oxford
• Margaret Mulholland - SEND & Inclusion Policy Specialist,
• Professor - Professor, Education, University of Stirling
• Rebecca Rylatt - Policy Advisor,
• Cat Scutt - Director of Education and Research,
• Ruth Smith - Director,
• Jack Worth - Lead Economist, .

Activities

Our research

Sponsored projects

Our portfolio includes:

• Grassroots Evaluation,ÌýYouth Endowment FundÌýand theÌýEducation Endowement Foundation
• Evaluation of Early Career Support Pilots, Education Endowment Fund
• Retention of Teachers from Minority Ethnic Groups in Disadvantaged Schools,ÌýBritish Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant
• Evaluation of SMART Spaces,ÌýEducation Endowment Fund
• ,ÌýEducation Endowment Fund
• , Education Endowment Fund
• , Department for Education.

Seed funded projects

In the academic year 2021/2022 we areÌýseedÌýfunding eightÌýresearch projects which support the centre'sÌýaims:

• More than ‘mixed-attainment good, ability grouping bad’: The perspectives of trainee teachers towards grouping in the primary classroom - Josh Franks, Giddeon Sappor
• Teachers’ Mathematical Digital Competencies (TeachMDC) - Eirini Geraniou, Nicola Bretscher and Jeremy Hodgen as research mentor
• Race and the geographies of educational spaces: Engaging with PGCE students lived experiences of race and racism in London - Lauren Hammond, Emma Jones, Alison Wiggins, John Morgan
• Understandings of social justice in secondary science education among ITE students and their university tutors - Wilton Lodge, Michael Reiss, Marian Mulcahy
• Sustainability Across Subjects (SAS) - David Mitchell, Alison Kitson, Alexis Stones, Emma Newall
• Teachers and Citizenship Knowledge (TACK) - Hans Svennevig, Hugh Starkey, Lee Jerome,ÌýJeremy Hayward, Alex Elwick, Gemma Gronland
• Minority ethnic PGCE student teachers’ racialised experiences while learning to teach and the implications for retention - Alison Wiggins, Antonina Tereshchenko, Cara Olga, Balbir Kaur
• COVID-19: Trainee TEACHers’ challenges and barriers to mental health and WELLbeing support (C19 TEACH WELL) - Keri Wong, Eleanor Kitto.

Collaborations and related projects

• Schools as Enabling Spaces to Improve Learning and Health-Related Quality of Life for Primary School Children in Rural Communities in South Africa.Ìý
• Best practice in grouping students
• Developing best practice in mixed attainment English teaching.

Journal 'Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice'

Along with our colleagues in the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Centre for Educational Leadership, the Centre hosts the Taylor and Francis journal .Ìý

The journal publishes research on teacher education, professionalism, values, evaluation and professional development, and teaching theory, practice and policy.

Seminar series

CTTR hosts theÌýEducating Teachers Matters seminar series with the Department for Learning and Leadership (DLL).ÌýThe series explores core issues in innovating teacher education for higher education institutions and their provider partners.Ìý

Publications