Dr Janet Orchard

Summary

• School leadership in England
• The aims of religious education and its pedagogy
• Values education and schooling
• Philosophical reflection on the future of teacher education

Biography

Janet is responsible for the Religious Education subject strand on the Secondary PGCE.  She has lectured at Institute of Education, University of London and the Department of Education University of Oxford, having been a teacher and administrator in schools in England.  She was Deputy Director of an EIC Action Zone in London from 2001 to 2004, with particular responsibility for primary to secondary school transfer.

Janet is a co-opted member of the Executive of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB), and a member of the Editorial Board of ‘IMPACT’.  Professional associations she belongs to specifically concerned with RE include: NATRE (the National Association of Religious Education) and AULRE (the Association of University Lecturers in Religion and Education). In June 2012 she was appointed to project manage the RE Subject Review for England initiated by the Religious Educational Council for England and Wales (REC).

Memberships

Organisations

Graduate School of Education

Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB)

Research Centres

• Centre for Systems Learning and Leadership (CSLL)
• Centre for Classroom Research (CfCR)

Recent publications

• Peck, LF & Orchard, J 2011, ‘Philosophical Perspectives on the future of Teacher Education’. BERA
• Orchard, J 2011, ‘Practical Wisdom and the Good School Leader’. in: Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, New College Oxford.
• Orchard, J 2010, ‘Should School Leadership be ‘Shared’?’. in: Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, New College Oxford.
• Orchard, J 2007, ‘Are the National Standards for Headteachers in England helpful?’. in: Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, New College Oxford.

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