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Thompson, Ian; McNicholl, Jane; Menter, Ian – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
This paper reports on a mixed methods study carried out within the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programme at the University of Oxford on the ways that the course sought to frame and address the link between poverty and poorer educational outcomes. The study was concerned with the views held by ITE students on the effects of poverty on pupils'…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Poverty, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Policy
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Brisard, Estelle; Menter, Ian; Smith, Ian – Comparative Education, 2007
This article presents the conceptual and methodological framework of a two-year comparative research project (2002-2004), funded by the University of Paisley. The study, entitled "Convergence or Divergence? Initial Teacher Education in Scotland and England", investigated initial teacher education (ITE) policy and practice in England and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Teacher Education, Global Approach
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Menter, Ian; Brisard, Estelle; Smith, Ian – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2006
There is an apparent contradiction between the widespread moves towards a uniform and instrumentalist standards-based approach to teaching on the one hand and recent research-based insights into the complexity of effective pedagogies. The former tendency reflects a politically driven agenda, the latter is more professionally driven. Tensions…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis