Welcome to the inaugural ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ TEAN conference information. For colleagues who attended conferences past under the banner of the Teacher Education Advancement Network (TEAN), you can be assured that this new and exciting collaboration still has the TEAN ethos at heart.
In keeping with TEAN, the conference provides the opportunity to present your research in an encouraging and supportive space where you will meet experienced researchers together with those who are just embarking on their research journey. Our emphasis is on providing scholarly professional development for all teacher educators, to provoke curiosity and engage with new thinking in the discipline of teacher education. We look forward to receiving your abstracts and seeing you at our first ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ TEAN conference in Sheffield.
The ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Teacher Education Advancement Network (TEAN) conference provides a powerful professional development experience for teacher educators and for researchers into teacher education and development. This includes teacher educators and educational researchers based in schools, colleges, and universities. The conference includes a range of presentations and workshops on critical evaluation of innovative practice and on research into teacher education and development.
Professor of Education and Head of MiE at University of Manchester
Lisa Murtagh is Professor of Education and Head of the Manchester Institute of Education. From 2018 – 2022 she was Head of ITE, having originally been appointed as director of partnerships and teacher inquiry. Prior to this, Lisa was Head of...
Senior Lecturer at University of Cumbria
Dr Pippa Leslie is a Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education and is Programme Leader for the MA Education at the University of Cumbria. She also currently leads a postgraduate ITE programme in Manchester that prepares pre-service teachers to teach...
Professor Emeritus at University of Cumbria
Pete Boyd taught for twelve years in high schools in Birkenhead and Bradford and three years in a field study and outdoor education centre in South Wales. He moved into higher education as a teacher educator, completed a part-time doctorate, and...
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