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 development and learning to inform and shape support for use of reserach. What is needed, she suggests, is much more investment in encouraging and enabling teachers to pull knowledge through into their practice and their working relationships.
The paper is available to registered users of this site from here. For the moment, this is the only place you can get it (even if you are attending the Conference).
Click here to view a podcast of CUREE's Philippa Cordingley talking to Helen Timperley from the University of Auckland at AERA.