Author Team

• Andrew Pollard

  Andrew Pollard taught in schools for ten years before entering teacher education and developing a career in educational research. His research interests include learner perspectives, teaching-learning processes, the role of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, and the development of evidence-informed classroom practice. He has been a Professor of Education at the universities of Bristol, London and West of England. He was Director of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme, the UK Strategic Forum for Research in Education and of ESCalate, the Education Subject Centre of the UK’s Higher Education Academy.

  

• Julie Anderson

  Julie Anderson has taught across the age range 4 to 60. She currently works as part of the senior management team of ESCalate.

  

• Sue Swaffield

  Sue Swaffield is our expert on assessment and school improvement issues. Experienced in schools and LEAs, she is a former chair of the Association for Achievement and Improvement through Assessment (AAIA) . She is now, with John MacBeath, a key figure in Leadership for Learning: The Cambridge Network in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK, where she teaches and carries out research.

  

• Mandy Swann

  Mandy Swann is Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her principal research interests are in learning and pupil voice. Her current research work focuses on the practices of primary teachers committed to lifting the limits on learning imposed by ability labelling, and on arts-based approaches to re-engaging disaffected learners.

  

• Jo Warin

  Jo Warin, sometime teacher of Drama and Theatre-in-Education in secondary schools, now teaches socio-cultural psychology at the University of Lancaster, UK. Her particular interest concerns how aspects of identity, such as gender, affect learning processes through-out a person’s life.

  

• Paul Warwick

  Paul Warwick is based in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and has a particular interest in science education. An experienced ex-primary teacher and science adviser, he spearheads the website’s provison on the primary curriculum. His research interests centre upon procedural understanding in science, though his current work looks at ethos and the conditions of learning in primary schools.