Teachers’ and Trainers’ Perspectives
Researching the outcomes of the New Opportunities Fund (NOF) ICT Teacher Training
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The MirandaNet team
- Christina Preston (Project Director)
- Josephine Kingsford (Principal researcher)
- Dr Marie Lall, Nicola Maw, Wesley Wellcomme (Research Officers, data collection and analysis)
- Debra Cook (Administration Manager)
Advisers
Christina Preston has extensive experience of ICT projects focusing on teacher education since 1987. She is the managing director of MirandaNet Ltd and at the time of this report was senior research associate at the Institute of Education, University of London. She now holds an honorary Fellowship at the Institute, as well as at the Czech Technical University, Prague. She specialises in innovative professional development models and ways of presenting research findings which appeal to teachers and raises their awareness of the issues. (www.mirandanet.ac.uk)
Professor Hilary Constable is Emeritus Professor University of Sunderland where she formerly held the post of Director of Research and Evaluation in the School of Education. She has extensive experience of research ranging from interpretative evaluation to quantitative surveys and a serious concern to make research answer the questions required and currently works part-time at the University of Northumbria. Current interests include evaluation of projects involving inter-agency and inter- and intra-service partnerships for example Healthy Schools Standard, Drugs Action in [a locality], and ICT for School Teachers. Other recent research has included work on Teacher Supply and Retention (Geography, Physics and Finance).
Hilary Constable will bring extensive experience in managing projects including meeting deadlines, staff development and management of time in research projects and active creation of research in partnership with stakeholders. An especial interest is in tailoring research and evaluation to inform decisions to be made by commissioners. Hilary Constable will also bring to this project personal skills in identifying and illuminating key research issues, getting to the heart of matters, making clarifications and finding the focus for development and continuation.
Dr Marie Lall is an independent researcher with 10 years of qualitative and quantitative research experience. She has worked on a variety of issues relating to education policy, social exclusion and Diaspora/migration studies. The focus countries have included Britain, Portugal and India. She was able to draw on her personal experience as an economics teacher when dealing with education policy research. In the last two years she has worked on projects in Parliament (funded by the CfBT) and in a leading British think tank (NPI).
Recent projects include:
- Education project for the Liberal Democrats
- An overview of special projects to reduce social exclusion in Portugal and Britain (for AKF)
- Gender and school exclusions (published by JRF and NCF 2002)
Debra Cook: Administration manager.
We welcome the voice of the teaching and training community in this research. Email if you have views you want to share.
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