Curriculum in a Changing World
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Richard Pountney, Dr
Emeritus Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University
Richard leads the knowledge in education research group in the Sheffield Institute of Education at Sheffield Hallam University. He is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Richard holds a Teacher Fellowship from the university for excellence in learning and teaching. He has extensive project management experience and leads the online Mentoring Practice Enhancement Programme for teachers. He researches the curriculum and teachers’ professional knowledge for curriculum making, and he supervises postgraduate research in the curriculum. As a director and trustee of XP multi-academy trust, and chair of the trust’s curriculum committee, he advises schools on developing the curriculum. Richard is an international research associate of the Knowledge in Education Unit at Auckland University, and the LCT Centre for Knowledge Building at Sydney University.
Richard Pountney's contributions
Exploring open approaches to digital literacy
The notion of open educational resources (OER) was set out in the ‘Cape Town Open Education Declaration’ (2007), calling on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their...
Continue reading blog postBERA Bites, issue 8: Toward a digital future of curriculum, pedagogy & assessment
In the last three decades, digital technologies have become an integral part of our lives, societies and education systems worldwide. The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns since early...
Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice
On 24 March 2022, the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) ran the Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice online event. The event focused attention on research-informed curriculum design and...
Hopes for the future: Presentation overviews and discussions from parallel session B
As chair of parallel session B for the BCF Spotlight on SEND event in March 2022, it was my pleasure to introduce the speakers and to field questions from the audience. In addition to the other...
Continue reading blog postEditorial: Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice
On 24 March 2022, the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) ran the Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice online event. The event focused attention on research-informed curriculum design and...
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Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice
Online registration has now closed for this event, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk. This British Curriculum Forum (BCF) event brings together teachers, practitioners,...
Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice
This British Curriculum Forum (BCF) event brought together teachers, practitioners, researchers, leaders, managers, and academics to share their critical perspectives and assumptions about...