Challenging the 'New Professionalism': from managerialism to pedagogy?

In recent years there have been changes made to the conceptualisation of continuing professional development for teachers in both the Scottish and English systems of education. These changes have been instigated by successive UK governments (and more recently, by the Scottish Executive), together with the General teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) and the General Teaching Council for England (GTCE). This paper argues that these changes have not provided a clear rationale for CPD, but instead have introduced tensions between the concept of teacher education and that of training. The need for a less confused understanding of CPD and its purposes is underlined, as is the need for school based approaches to continuing teacher education. Arguably, teacher education must move from technicist emphases to a model which integrates the social processes of change within society and schools with the individual development and empowerment of teachers

The development of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence: Amnesia and Déjà Vu

Scotland’s new Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) has been widely acknowledged as the most significant educational development in a generation, with the potential to transform learning and teaching in Scottish schools. In common with recent developments elsewhere, CfE seeks to re-engage teachers with processes of curriculum development, to place learning at the heart of the curriculum and to change engrained practices of schooling. This article draws upon well-established curriculum theory (notably the work of both Lawrence Stenhouse and A.V. Kelly) to analyse the new curriculum. We argue that by neglecting to take account of such theory, the curricular offering proposed by CfE is subject to a number of significant structural contradictions which may affect the impact that it ultimately exerts on learning and teaching; in effect, by ignoring the lessons of the past, CfE runs the risk of undermining the potential for real change

Technology education in Scottish schools A statement of position from Scottish CCC

SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:GPC/09431 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

How good is our school at education industry links? Self evaluation using performance indicators

SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:GPE/1984 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

5-14 handbook for headteachers and other school managers

SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:GPC/09112 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

How good is our school at education industry links? Self evaluation using performance indicators

SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:GPE/1984 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

Education for work Education industry links in Scotland; a national framework

Rev. ed.SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:GPE/5207 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

The heart of the matter A paper for discussion and development; education for personal and social development

SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:GPC/07615 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo