IPDA Ireland hosts Journal Club with Philippa Cordingley
October 9, 2023
IPDA Ireland hosted the third Journal Club event on 8th June 2023, hosted by Dr Eimear Holland and with author Philippa Cordingley.
Host: Dr Eimear Holland
Journal Paper: Cordingley, P. (2015) ‘The contribution of research to teachers’
professional learning and development’, Oxford Review of Education, 41(2), 234-252.
This series offers the opportunity to explore recently published high quality research in the area of professional learning and development (PLD). The paper selection process is shaped in consultation with the IPDA Ireland community regarding current topics of interest and need. Engaging and provocative dialogic activities will be informed by the pre-reading of a selected paper, accompanied by key thinking points. Given the opportunity to explore, debate and critically evaluate, attendees will co-construct a deeper grasp of the paper’s strengths and areas for development, considering the implications it has for them and the wider PLD profession’s policy, practice and research processes.
Journal Club Host’s Biography: From the start of her teaching career in the UK, Dr Eimear Holland held the role of ‘teacher as a researcher’, engaging with teacher inquiry in collaboration with Loughborough University. This led her to being awarded a National Teacher Research Panel scholarship and to both presenting and publishing nationally. She had the honour of being invited to sit on the National Teacher Research Panel, which works to make research engagement accessible to teachers. Her career was very much inspired directly by Philippa Cordingley and colleagues. After working as a Senior Lecturer in Liverpool John Moore University, Eimear returned to Ireland, taking up the role of assistant professor in the Faculty of Science and Health at Dublin City University. Her teaching emphasises the development of pedagogy and teacher research across a range of modules. Working as Physical Education School Placement Coordinator, her research focuses on school placement, mentoring, leadership, teacher research and partnership development. Research she has conducted and published has a particular emphasis upon the importance of transformative professional learning experiences across domains and teaching sectors, which amongst other things, develops participatory action learning action research -based communities of practice. Her doctoral and recent works have developed the meta-design of transformative professional learning models (See Holland, 2021; King and Holland, 2023).
Journal Lead Author’s Biography:
An internationally acknowledged expert, Professor Philippa Cordingley (MA FCCT) is the Chief Executive of the ‘Centre for the Use of Research & Evidence in Education’ (CUREE). With her lively team of teachers, writers, researchers, and information specialists who combine their respective pedagogic, research, knowledge-management and journalistic skills, they bring research to life for practitioner and policy audiences. Philippa has a hands-on role in many of CUREE’s projects including the development of the evidence based National Framework for Mentoring and Coaching; the creation of innovative practical resources to engage practitioners with research e.g., Research for Teachers. The Research Informed Practice (TRIPs) web site and of a bank of micro enquiry tools for the Economic and Social Research Council’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme and for the General Teaching Council. She also leads CUREE’s research and evaluation projects ranging from a three-year large scale, multi-disciplinary evaluation of the implementation of the National Curriculum to the evaluation of in school development projects. She founded (and was professional adviser to the National Teacher Research Panel and chaired the EPPI Centre Impact of CPD Review Group. A Visiting Professor at Marjon St Mark and John University and a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, she has also chaired the Leadership Research Advisory Panel of the Chartered College of Teaching and is a member of the CPD Expert Group for the UK Department of Education and the Technical Advisory Group of the Queen Rania Foundation (Jordan). Philippa is a member of the OECD group evaluating teacher education / preparation systems around the world. It is hard to imagine when Philippa finds time to sleep! A list of some of Philippa’s publications (as cited in Google Scholar) can be found here.
