Dr Janet Orchard
MA (Cantab), PGCE , PhD
Current positions
Associate Professor in Philosophy and Religion in Teacher Education
School of Education
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Research interests
- Philosophical reflection on teacher education
- Ethical deliberation and teaching
- Religious education and its pedagogy
- Values education/moral education in schooling
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Associate Project on Pedagogic Research and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL).
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (THS)Dates
01/07/2025 to 31/07/2026
Embedding Transformative Leadership
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
02/01/2023 to 31/07/2023
Going Global
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
07/12/2018 to 31/07/2019
Philosophy for teachers (P4T): fostering ethical judgement in classroom practices
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/05/2018 to 30/04/2021
Developing teacher educators skills to promote the intercultural awareness of teachers in Hong Kong
Principal Investigator
Description
‘Philosophy for Teachers’, or ‘P4T’, is adapted from “P4C” (Philosophy for Children). It is a model of professional learning through dialogue within a community of fellow enquirers. Ethics in teaching…Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/11/2016 to 31/03/2017
Thesis supervisions
A Whole New World
Supervisors
Conversations in Creativity
Supervisors
Hong Kong Catholic Secondary School Male Students’ Perceptions of Spiritual Development
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The Tacit Dimension
Supervisors
Paying attention to throwaway conversation
Supervisors
Rewriting subject English
Supervisors
Micropolitics and the Utopian Function. Exploring Primary Chilean Students’ Narratives of the Future.
Supervisors
A Critical Realist Analysis of the Legitimising Affects of the Entrepreneurial University
Supervisors
Perceptions of academic integrity among teachers and students in the EAP context at a self-financing tertiary institution in Hong Kong
Supervisors
Beneath The Surface of School Self Evaluation
Supervisors
Exploring the impact of giving and receiving peer feedback on associate degree students’ Chinese academic writing
Supervisors
A quasi-experimental study of the Flipped Classroom Method in a Hong Kong Associate Degree of Nursing Studies setting
Supervisors
Exploring Critical Thinking in a Social and Cultural Context
Supervisors
Quality Assurance Policy Enactment in Education
Supervisors
Changing Wine into Water? A Study of Examined Scripture Knowledge in the Schools, Universities and Teacher Training Colleges of Wales 1944-1955
Supervisors
Exploring Four Hong Kong low achieving Cantonese students evolved into high achieving HE learners through the Lens of Higgins’ Self-and-Affect Model
Supervisors
For action research
Supervisors
An investigation of the educational value of online mindfulness intervention on in-service teachers and pre-service teachers in Hong Kong
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
24/03/2016Philosophy for Teachers (P4T)
Ethics and Education
On the role of philosophical work in research in teacher education
A Companion to Research in Teacher Education
Does religious education promote good community relations?
Journal of Beliefs and Values
What training do teachers need? IMPACT 22, PESGB, Wiley Blackwell, Oxford
What training do teachers need? IMPACT 22, PESGB, Wiley Blackwell, Oxford
The contribution of research to teachers' professional knowledge: philosophical understandings
The contribution of research to teachers' professional knowledge: philosophical understandings
Recent publications
01/02/2026Positioning Teachers in Climate Change Education
British Educational Research Journal
Chapter 52: Walking the talk: assessing the collaborative potential of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) for co-created classroom-based research
The BERA-Sage Handbook of Research- Informed Education Practice and Policy
Part-Time Distance Postgraduate Researchers
Creative Practice in Higher Education Engaging Adult Learners through Theory and Pedagogy
‘Going boldly’ in RE
Journal of Religious Education
Teaching as Rooted Cosmopolitans
Journal of Philosophy of Education
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