Shows
BERA UK PodcastIn Conversations with...Professor Ian MenterEvery year BERA awards the John Nisbet Fellowship to people who have made an outstanding contribution to educational research over their career. In this episode, Professor Dominic Wyse, BERA President interviews Professor Ian Menter (University of Oxford) one of the 2020 John Nisbet fellows.Dom and Ian discuss the journey that led Ian from a career as a teacher educator to a teacher education researcher. Ian speaks about his current research interests of teacher education, education policy and comparative studies in education and teacher education and policy, and the importance of looking at the 4 nations when st...2020-07-2128 min
Inside Education - a podcast for educators interested in teachingProgramme 376, Ian Menter on Teacher Education and More (23-10-19)Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's podcast I discuss several matters related to teacher education with Professor Ian Menter from Oxford University's Department of Education. The topics we discuss are the following:
The Teacher Education Groups study of teacher education policy across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
How England is an outlier in attempts to weaken the link between universities and schools in teacher education.
Work he’s doing in Ireland with the National Institute for Studies in Education (NISE) based on collaboration across the three teacher edu...2019-10-2358 min
FreshEdFreshEd #109 – Learning to be a teacher (Maria Teresa Tatto and Ian Menter)How do teachers learn to teach? My guests today, Maria Teresa Tatto and Ian Menter, discuss the many paths to become a teacher in England and the USA and the policy environment that is shaping current practice.
Learning to be a teacher, they argue, requires much more than simply having a lot of content knowledge. Just because you may know math really well does not mean that you would be a good math teach. Teaching is a skill that must be systematically learned and practiced.
Together with Katharine Burn, Trevor Mutton, and Ian Thompson, Teresa and Ian have a new...2018-03-2541 min
Sydney IdeasDean's Lecture Series. Professor Ian Menter on What is a Teacher in the 21st Century?There is now almost universal recognition around the world that 'teaching matters' and that the quality of teaching is crucial in social and economic development.
However, there has been remarkably little change in the ways in which teachers' work is constructed and the ways in which teachers are educated for a lifetime of preparing young people for their future worlds.
In this talk Ian Menter reflects on debates about the nature of teaching and teacher education in order to challenge much of the dominant thinking, suggesting that such thinking is often driven by ideology and prejudice rather than by careful...2016-04-261h 11
Department of Education Public SeminarsClosing the Gap: Issues, challenges and impact of the implementation of a national experiment in educational researchDr Ann Childs, Dr Nigel Fancourt, Dr Roger Firth, Professor Ian Menter and Dr Ian Thompson, Department of Education, Oxford, give a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar series. Abstract:
During 2012, the National College for Teaching and Leadership, working in collaboration with a number of partners, designed a major research and development initiative entitled Closing the Gap - Test and Learn. The contract to run the project was awarded to CfBT who worked in partnership with CUREE and the Universities of Durham and Oxford to deliver the scheme from 2012-2015.
They invited lead teaching schools in teaching school...2016-03-0456 minDepartment of Education Public SeminarsClosing the Gap: Issues, challenges and impact of the implementation of a national experiment in educational researchDr Ann Childs, Dr Nigel Fancourt, Dr Roger Firth, Professor Ian Menter and Dr Ian Thompson, Department of Education, Oxford, give a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar series. Abstract:
During 2012, the National College for Teaching and Leadership, working in collaboration with a number of partners, designed a major research and development initiative entitled Closing the Gap - Test and Learn. The contract to run the project was awarded to CfBT who worked in partnership with CUREE and the Universities of Durham and Oxford to deliver the scheme from 2012-2015.
They invited lead teaching schools in teaching school...2016-03-0456 min