Education & Teaching at Newcastle University

24/05/2017

We would like to invite you to our latest seminar by Prof Mark Priestley talking about 'Teacher agency: what it is and why does it matter?' http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/news/events/item/teacheragencywhatisitandwhydoesitmatter.html

The concept of teacher agency has emerged in recent literature as an alternative means of understanding how teachers might enact practice and engage with policy (e.g. Lasky, 2005; Leander & Osbourne, 2008; Ketelaar et al., 2012; Priestley, Biesta & Robinson, 2015). But what is agency? Agency remains...

12/05/2017

Blog by, Dr Laura Mazzoli Smith is Research Excellence Academy Fellow in the Research Centre for Learning and Teaching.

In some of my work I’ve argued that unless we engage more with progressive conceptualisations of academic ability overall, the concept will, by default, continue to be overly-determined by a narrowly-conceived measure of particular cognitive skills (

05/05/2017

Blog from former MEd in Practitioner Enquiry student, Anne Clough.

The Politics of the Canon: An exploration of the factors influencing teachers’ text choices for the new GCSE specification in English Literature

26/04/2017

ROMtels, an Erasmus+ funded project, has produced a series of guidance books for teachers and teacher educators, which includes guidance on promoting a translanguaging pedagogy.

20/04/2017

A feature on TED Prize highlights Professor Sugata Mitra’s project, which won the $1 million prize.

18/04/2017

Sue Robson, Rene Koglbauer, Ulrike Thomas and Anna Reid from CfLAT and North Leadership Centre, Newcastle University, led an Erasmus+ project ‘Entrepreneurial Competences for School Leadership Teams’ (2014-2016). The project aimed to identify successful entrepreneurial competences from the business…

03/04/2017

Newcastle University is ranked in the top 10 for student experience in the UK for the third year in a row, according to latest survey results.

28/03/2017

Read our new paper about schooling and poverty in Tanzania

In general school and teacher factors have a negative affect on children’s self confidence and their positive attitude to learning;.

15/03/2017

Blog from Dr Rachel Lofthouse:

24/02/2017

In his powerful speech at the Cambridge Primary Review Trust’s (CPRT) conference in November last year, Robin Alexander suggested, in relation to recent electoral outcomes in the UK and the US, that discourses of hatred and derision might be..

16/02/2017

Ever worked with a teacher trainee mentor who is not up for it? Or, even worse, is not up to it? They might be the colleague with a light timetable that year, or who is looking for professional experience at the cost of their mentee’s development

14/02/2017

Rachel Lofthouse was invited to give a key-note at the annual UCET Conference in November 2016. Her theme was ‘“I’ll get by with a little help from my friends”: opportunities for collaborative teacher learning in Initial Teach-er Education and beyond’. She drew on a number of CfLaT projects and init...