Featured Doctoral Projects

• Teacher effectiveness in the Indian context - Rhiannon Moore

  Teacher effectiveness in the Indian context: Investigating the impact of teacher motivation and teacher professional knowledge on classroom instructional environment and student learning. This mixed methods study uses primary and secondary data to explore secondary school teacher ‘effectiveness’ in two states in Southern India. It focuses particularly on the topics of teacher motivation, professional knowledge and classroom practice, both as areas potentially related to student learning outcomes, and as ‘intermediate outcomes’ which are themselves shaped by a range of factors.
• Being both: summative and formative or... neither? - Tamara Cepeda

  Being both: summative and formative or... neither? Assessment purposes, methods, results and justice in one Chilean school. Case study on school assessment, focusing on teachers' resistance to the use of the 'formative' Western concept and its consequences within a neoliberal and high stakes educational context.
• Teacher’s narratives of Social Justice Education in Neoliberal times - Silvia Espinal Meza

  Teacher’s narratives of Social Justice Education in Neoliberal times: a discussion of the Peruvian case. The neoliberal policies in Peru from the decade of 1990s have been created disparities in schools where social justice education perspectives have been silenced from official policies. This research focuses on the understandings of social justice education from a group of rural teachers in Peru.