Andy Convery
BA PGCE MA PhD
Senior Lecturer - PCET
Location:
Forster Building, City Campus
Phone: 0191 515 3098 / 3192 / 2395
Email:
andy.convery@sunderland.ac.uk
Biography
In 26 years teaching in FE, I developed an appreciation of Action
Research as both research and professional development experience for
teachers, and worked with teachers in schools and colleges across the
country to help them improve their practice and contribute to our knowledge of teaching.
Since joining the University in 2006, I have worked closely with colleagues in partner colleges to ensure our part-time Cert-Ed and foundation Degree students enjoy a first-class HE experience.
Teaching Areas
PGCE Compulsory Education and Training (PCET)
Research Interests
Teacher Action Research, teacher narrative.
Selected Publications
1998 "Franchising and Institutional Development" in Beyond the Universities: The New Higher Education Ed Mitchell P (Arena: Ashgate) Co-authored with D Longmate.
1998 "A Teacher's Response To "Reflection-in-Action" Cambridge Journal of Education, Vol 28, No 2, pp197-206.
1999 "Listening to Teacher's Stories: Are We Sitting Too Comfortably?" in Qualitative Studies in Education, Vol 12, No 2 pp131 -146.
1999 "Improving Colleges: Raising Quality ans Achievement" (FEDA: London) with Somekh B, Delaney J, Fisher R, Gray J, Gunn S, Henworth A and Powell L.
2001 "The Effective Intergration of Learning Support Assistants in the Learning Environment" (FEDA: London) with Bichener D
2007 Evaluation of the ICT Test Bed Project: Final Report (DfES/Becta: London) with Somekh, B and others.
2009 "The Pedagogy of the Impressed; How Teachers Become Sacrificed On The Altar of Technological Vision" in Journal of Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice Vol 15:1 pp25-41.
Selected Presentations
2004 BERA Conference, Manchester, "Supporting Teachers in the Creation of Critical Theory About ICT Use"
2004 CARN Conference, Malaga, "Teacher Research into ICT"
2005 Manchester Metropolitan University Public Seminar "Winners and Losers: Teachers' Experience of Action Research"
2007 Centre for Socialcultural Activity Theory, University of Birmingham: "Facilitating Teacher Action Research into ICT Pedagogy: Addressing Some Frequently-Unasked-Questions"
2007 CARN Conference Umea, Sweden "Participatory Action Research"
2008 CARN Conference Liverpool, "Challenging Orthodoxies: Improving Further Education Through Collaborative Action Research".
2009 CARN Conference Athens, "Collaborative Action Research into Teaching Equality & Diversity in FE"
2010 CARN Conference Cambridge, "Evaluating Teachers' Accredited Action Research Projects"
External Engagement
DfES-funded Best Practice Research Scholarship Mentor 2000-03
DfES- Test Bed ICT Evaluation team 2002-06
External Examiner MA CPD Edge Hill University
Collaborative Action Research Network Treasurer (and Lead Co-ordinator 2008 and 2010)
