Ian Menter

Bio: Ian Menter is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Teacher education & Curriculum. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 135 publications receiving 2535 citations. Previous affiliations of Ian Menter include University of Glasgow & University of the West of Scotland.

Children, their world, their education: final report and recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review

Abstract: edited by Robin Alexander, London, Routledge, 2009, 592 pp., £95.00 (hardback), £35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978‐0‐415‐54870‐0 (hardback), ISBN 978‐0‐41‐554871‐7 (paperback) This publication provides n...

A Guide to Practitioner Research in Education

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Literature Review on Teacher Education in the 21st Century

Abstract: The overall aim of this literature review is to understand the contribution that teacher education can make to the quality and effectiveness of the educational experience and wider personal development of young people, drawing on effective practice in Scotland and elsewhere.

Work and Identity in the Primary School: A Post-Fordist Analysis

Abstract: Researching the primary marketplace markets and policy the education market in an English count town markets, managemetn and control in the primary school two schools - in-depth case studies themes in the control of work changes in school work restructuring work in education and beyond.

Enterprise Education: The Role of Head Teachers

Abstract: In the UK there have been recent policy developments in enterprise education, following the Davies Report (2002). In Scotland there has been the launch of a comprehensive enterprise education programme, the Determined to Succeed Strategy (Scottish Executive, 2003) for all schools in Scotland. This Strategy represented the Executive’s response to a working party review of education and enterprise. The review, Determined to Succeed, 2002 represented a comprehensive overview of requirements in order to provide enterprise education in all schools in Scotland. The aim stated is to “take an innovative and experimental approach in developing key themes in the initiative around the professional development of teachers, the engagement of disengaged school students and the promotion of a focused and resource-intensive approach to Enterprise in Education” (Scottish Executive, 2004). This paper reviews developments in enterprise education and the role of Head Teachers and Deputy Head Teachers (school principals and vice-principals). It reports the findings from research conducted with a Leadership Academy, delivered by the Columba 1400 organisation, with Head and Deputy Head Teachers for the Scottish Executive and assesses their critical role in enterprise education.

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

Abstract: The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity

Abstract: Teaching for the knowledge society - educating for ingenuity teaching beyond the knowledge society - from value for money to values for good teaching despite the knowledge society I - the end of ingenuity teaching despite the knowledge society II - the loss of integrity the knowledge society school - an endangered entity beyond standardization - professional learning communities or performance training sects? the future of teaching in the knowledge society - rethinking improvement, removing impoverishment.