At the Conservative Party conference on 4th October 2010 CUREE held a fringe event to consider the Future of the Profession. With the government’s new education agenda come substantial freedoms from central prescription and freedoms to innovate. Such freedoms, like all entitlements, bring responsibilities. In this case the responsibility for making significantly more professional judgements about what to teach, to whom, and how. What’s going to ensure that all these decisions actually improve things? Philippa Cordingley, for CUREE, argued that what was needed
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Posted: February 8, 2011
94% of primary schools have registered with Sing Up, a national singing programme which started in 2007 and which aimed to make Britain a ‘Singing Nation.’ What makes it all tick? CUREE is conducting an evaluation which aims to explore the impact as well as the learning from the unique Sing Up approach. Please click Sing Up for more information.
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Last Updated: 18/05/16
Posted: February 18, 2011
Philipa Cordingley has recently conducted interviews with Steve Higgins, Dylan William, Rupert Wegerif and Jim Rose on behalf of the GTC to explore current topics of interest. We recommend that you view these videos with colleagues and in conjunction with related TLA themes and research summaries. To view the videos, please click here.
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Last Updated: 18/05/16
Posted: March 11, 2011
Philippa delivered a well-received keynote at the 24th International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement in Cyprus in January. This annual event provides an opportunity for researchers, policy-makers and teachers from all over the world to come together and share a common commitment to develop more efficient and equitable education. Philippa shared CUREE’s research work on practitioner engagement in and/or with research. Based on the research, her speech explored the links between practitioner research engagement and
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Last Updated: 18/05/16
Posted: April 15, 2009
CUREE's Chief Executive, Philippa Cordingley, presented a paper on 15 April 2009 to the American Education Research Association (AERA) in San Diego. In it, she explores how the English system has supported use of education research over the last 13 years and highlights the limitations of knowledge management and dissemination/communications theories and strategies for shaping such work. Through a case study of the development of mentoring and coaching in England, she argues for the use of the large body of empirical evidence and growing body of theory about continuing professional
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Last Updated: 06/05/16
Posted: July 8, 2008
In this podcast, Philippa Cordingley is interviewed about drawing attention to the importance of school leaders acting as 'hunters and gatherers' of research. The subsequent sharing with staff of their excitement about particular articles or web sites can cause a ripple effect of acceptance of research as an important part of ongoing professional learning.
The interview can be found here, and the following links may be useful:
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Last Updated: 19/04/16