Centre for Transformative Change in Schools (CenTCS)

This theme considers questions such as:

  • How do we design teacher preparation curricula that are fit for the future and global in outlook?
  • What role can professional inquiry play in supporting and driving transformative professional practice?
  • What collaborative approaches to professional learning can best support transformative change in schools?
  • How do different sources of knowledge shape approaches to transformative professional learning?

Special issue of Educational Review  titled "Asset-based parent engagement in education: Reimagining partnerships between parents and educators"

Max Antony-Newman (lead), Brianna L. Kennedy

Keywords: parent engagement; asset-based approaches; funds of knowledge; community cultural wealth

 

Handbook of teacher education and professional learning for educational change

Aileen Kennedy, Brianna L. Kennedy, Ismail Özgür Zembat (co-leads), Carol Campbell (University of Edinburgh), Kat Brack

Keywords: transformative professional learning; educational change; cross-national contexts

 

Quality Teaching in Scotland

Brianna L. Kennedy (lead), Rhona Brown, Aileen Kennedy, Lauren Boath, Jenny Gore (University of Newcastle), Drew Miller (University of Newcastle), Nicole Mockler (University of Sydney)

Keywords: Quality Teaching, professional learning, partnerships, equity

 

Supporting educators’ use of the Frame Shifting Approach to practitioner inquiry

Brianna L. Kennedy (lead), Lauren Boath, Amy Murphy (University of Georgia, United States)

Keywords: practitioner inquiry/enquiry; professional learning; habits of mind; three domains of teaching

Toolkit for reflecting on the use of Digital and AI Technologies in Learning and Teaching

Mark Peart (lead), Gabriella Rodolico, Leon Robinson, Lavinia Hirsu

Keywords: pedagogical reasoning; decision-making; reflective practice; digital technologies; AI

 

Scaling educational and policy impact through co-designed digital and AI professional learning and educational resources: A collaborative pathway of knowledge exchange and toolkit dissemination (SCOPED)

Mark Peart (lead), Gabriella Rodolico, Lavinia Hirsu

Keywords: Professional Learning; AI in Education; decision-making; reflective practice 

 

The Playing Teacher Project

Kathryn Spicksley (lead)

Keywords: mentoring; recruitment; retention; professional identity

 

The International Teacher Education Research Collective (ITERC) edited research collection volume 2

Ruth Unsworth (CI), Dion Russelbaek Hansen (SDU, Denmark) (PI); Tony Carusi (Massey, NZ); Henry Kwok (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Keywords: ITERC; international teacher education research; uncertainty and radical thinking in teachers' professional work

Inclusive and social justice-oriented pedagogies in ELT

Deniz Ortactepe Hart (lead)

Keywords: social justice pedagogies; intersectionality; language education

 

Using insight from teachers’ stories of Professional Update to enhance policy and practice

Aileen Kennedy (Lead), Kat Brack, Debbie McLeod (University of Strathclyde)

Keywords: Professional Update; professional review and development; accountability; narrative Inquiry

 

A guide to place-responsive pedagogy in the outdoors

Ruth Unsworth (CI), Lucy Sors (PI) (York St John University)

Keywords: place-responsive pedagogy; learning outdoors