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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.
- Building capacity for critical research engagement in teacher education.
- Deepening theoretical understanding of teaching and teacher education in complex contexts.
- Providing research-informed high quality professional learning for teachers through courses, support and resources.
The centre helps prepare the 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 Daly – Centre Director
- Dr Anna Cook – Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Mark Hardman – Associate Professor
- Claire Pillinger – Research Assistant
- Dr Sally Riordan – Senior Research Fellow
- Professor Becky Taylor – Professorial Research Fellow
Visitors
- Vickie Crockett – Fulbright Distinguished Teacher
- Juan Lucas Nachez – Visiting Scholar, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niteroi, Brazil)
- Professor Sabine Severiens – Honorary Professor.
Advisory group
- Professor Andy Hobson – Associate Dean Research and Knowledge Exchange, University of Brighton
- Professor Aileen Kennedy – Director of Teacher Education, University of Strathclyde
- Professor David James – Professor of Sociology of Education, Cardiff University
- Professor Vini Lander – Director of the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality at Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University
- Professor Ian Menter – Emeritus Professor of Teacher Education, University of Oxford
- Margaret Mulholland – SEND & Inclusion Policy Specialist, Association of School and College Leaders
- Professor Mark Priestley – Professor, Education, University of Stirling
- Rebecca Rylatt – Policy Advisor, Department for Education (DfE)
- Cat Scutt – Director of Education and Research, Chartered College of Teachers
- Ruth Smith – Director, East London Teaching School Hub
- Jack Worth – Lead Economist, National Foundation for Educational Research.
Activities
- Journal 'Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice'
Along with our colleagues in the UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, the Centre hosts the Taylor and Francis journal Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice.
The journal publishes research on teacher education, professionalism, values, evaluation and professional development, and teaching theory, practice and policy.
- Seminar series
CTTR hosts the Educating Teachers Matters seminar series with the Department for Learning and Leadership (DLL). The series explores core issues in innovating teacher education for higher education institutions and their provider partners.
