Developing Research in Teacher Education

Ian Menter is Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Glasgow, UK, a Special Professor at the University of Nottingham and is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.Jean Murray is Professor of Education at the University of East London, UK, and an Associate Director of Escalate (the Higher Education Subject Centre for teacher education).

• 1. Introduction: Capacity building in teacher education research Ian Menter and Jean Murray 2. A critical history of research assessment in the United Kingdom and its post-1992 impact on education Peter Gilroy and Olwen McNamara 3. Research capacity building in teacher education: Scottish collaborative approaches Donald Christie and Ian Menter 4. Harnessing the slipstream: building educational research capacity in Northern Ireland. Size matters Ruth Leitch 5. How engagement with research changes the professional practice of teacher-educators: a case study from the Welsh Education Research Network Howard Tanner and Susan M.B. Davies 6. Capacity = expertise × motivation × opportunities: factors in capacity building in teacher education in England Jean Murray, Marion Jones, Olwen McNamara and Grant Stanley 7. Building capacity through teacher enquiry: the Scottish Schools of Ambition Moira Hulme, Vivienne Baumfield and Fran Payne 8. Scallops, schools and scholars: reflections on the emergence of a research-oriented learning project Donald Gray, Archie Graham, Yvonne Dewhurst, Gillian Kirkpatrick, Lindsay MacDougall, Sandra Nicol and Graeme Nixon 9. The TEG bibliography: having knowledge and using it – next steps? Karl Wall, Anne Campbell, Ian Hextall, Moira Hulme, Marion Jones, Pat Mahony, Ian Menter, Jean Murray and Richard Procter