The Centre for Pedagogy
We are delighted to announce the creation and launch of the Centre for Pedagogy. Based in the Faculty of Education and Society here at the University of Sunderland, the Centre will build on a tradition of research into pedagogy in all its many forms and at every stage of life and learning from the infant in arms to those in later life who are making the most of their retirement through learning. Thus we welcome participation from fellow researchers within the university and beyond who harness a desire to contribute to the improvement of teaching and learning through research.
The Centre for Pedagogy will have one major aim:
To carry out inquiry and research into the relationship between teaching and learning on the basis that an understanding of pedagogy is important for how quality in teaching and learning might be better understood and enacted.
Educational research has always had a moral purpose. Our aim is to improve teaching and learning for the benefit of the whole of society. In this respect the Centre will build on the traditions of local, regional, national and international research in order to better inform our own and others teaching and everyone's learning. This will necessarily involve investigation into many factors which impact on teaching and learning from the personal to the political and we will draw on understanding from classical theory to the latest understandings involving technology and neuroscience, in order to advance pedagogic theory and to influence policy and enhance practice.
Research projects and interests
Our current and previous members have a history of conducting research projects and winning internal and external funding from a variety of sources including, EU, Nuffield, ESRC, TDA, BECTA. We have also collaborated on other EU, MRC and EPSRC grants and worked with schools and industry to innovate and to enhance classrooms and learning and to design software.
Our particular research interests in terms of teaching and learning are: affective issues, human relationships in learning, Information and Communications Technology, design and technology, moral issues, children's literature, intercultural education and MFL , teacher education - initial and continuing professional development, assessment, action research in education.
