Professor Viv Ellis, Brunel University, London
"Transforming the Landscape of Teacher Education: Possible Futures for the Profession and Universities Working Together"
November 18-20, 2014
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Viv Ellis is Professor of Education and chair of the new Department of Education at Brunel University in London, UK. He is also a Visiting Professor at Bergen University College in Norway. Formerly the Co-convenor of the Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research at the University of Oxford, Viv takes a cultural-historical approach to research on teaching and teacher education including, currently, studies of the pedagogies of teacher education in urban contexts in the UK, the USA, Norway and China (British Academy) and the ‘uses’ of poetry in human learning and development (Arts and Humanities Research Council).
Viv’s most recent publications include ‘Academic Work and Proletarianisation’ (with McNicholl, Blake and McNally) in Teaching and Teacher Education and ‘Connecting does not necessarily mean learning’ (with Douglas) in the Journal of Teacher Education. His 2011 article ‘Re-energising Professional Creativity from a CHAT Perspective’ is currently the most read article in the journal Mind, Culture and Activity. He has authored and edited several books including Transforming Teacher Education (with Jane McNicholl), forthcoming in 2015 from Bloomsbury; Subject Knowledge and Teacher Education (Continuum, 2007); and Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Development (co-edited with Peter Smagorinsky and Anne Edwards, published by Routledge 2010). With Smagorinsky, Marie Brennan and Meg Maguire, he has been commissioned by Bloomsbury Academic to edit a major new series on ‘Re-Inventing Teacher Education’ from 2015. Prior to pursuing doctoral studies at the Institute of Education in London, Viv was a high school teacher in the English Midlands and a teacher of freshman composition in the rolling wheat fields of the Palouse, Washington State. For some of Professor Ellis's work, click below:
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