Unearthing Structures, Amplifying Voices: A Critical Realist Inquiry into the Lives of Autistic Teachers
In this webinar, Helen Bowhay, Director of Initial Teacher Education at the University of Nottingham, will introduce the key findings from her research into the lived experiences of autistic teachers in education. Despite increasing attention to diversity and inclusion for children and young people, there remains a significant lack of research that addresses these issues […]
Exploring the use of AI to support sense-making in Initial Teacher Education
For any trainee/student teacher, a core challenge of learning how to teach, is encountering, navigating and making sense of that which interrupts them—moments they notice and mark for reflection—amidst the complexity of the classroom. During an ITE programme, the classroom is an environment filled with rich yet fleeting moments, during which beliefs, preconceptions and even […]
Do mentors want to be mentors? Defining a rich, broad, long-term vision for mentoring in education
In this workshop jointly hosted by the Chartered College and Penrose Education, Dr Lizana Oberholzer, Derek Boyle and Rob Caudwell discussed what a rich, broad, long-term vision of mentoring could look like. During this interactive session participants had the opportunity to ask questions and contribute ideas as we begin defining how mentoring could become a […]