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The Oxford Education Deanery: a site of intersecting practices

The Oxford Education Deanery: a site of intersecting practices Nigel Fancourt OUDE and Alison Robb-Webb OCL ( nigel.fancourt@education.ox.ac.uk ) ( alison.robb-webb@cityofoxford.ac.uk ) . Overview. Local context World-class university Local educational underachievement & aspiration

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The Oxford Education Deanery: a site of intersecting practices

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  1. The Oxford Education Deanery: a site of intersecting practices Nigel Fancourt OUDE and Alison Robb-Webb OCL (nigel.fancourt@education.ox.ac.uk) (alison.robb-webb@cityofoxford.ac.uk)

  2. Overview • Local context • World-class university • Local educational underachievement & aspiration • Oxford internship scheme • National policy context • Schools: school-led ITE and more (RCT) research • Universities: REF, OFFA and University Training Schools • The Oxford Education Deanery • a multi-layered system of distributed expertise • Recognising the different motives of different participants

  3. Principles of the Deanery • Investment in the future of the teaching profession • Doing high quality research that is relevant to the future of the profession • Developing the best subject pedagogy • Working with young people to sustain their engagement in learning • Creating strong learning environments • Adopting a constructive and critical approach to curriculum development and assessment • Drawing on and contributing to the pool of expertise across all participants

  4. A site of intersecting practices

  5. Future • ...its about a kind of clarity of thinking where you can ...identify a set of values and ideas... If that were developed as part of the Deanery... That these are our very clear values and principles about learning...they operate almost independently of things like national policy and the political shifts and changes... If the politicians say we’ve got to do this, [we say] our values are this. (senior teacher 2012)

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