Professor Bridget Cooper
BA History/French, PGCE History/PE, MSc Computing, PGCRM
PhD - Teachers as moral models: The role empathy in teacher/pupil relationships
Professor of Education
Location:
David Goldman Building, St Peters Campus
Phone: 0191 5152231 / 3192 / 2395 / 2201
Email:
bridget.cooper@sunderland.ac.uk
Biography
Bridget has taught for 31 years in schools, adult education and Higher Education in various capacities across the age and attainment range. She has particular experience in the teaching of History, Literacy and Numeracy and English as a second language and worked for Northampton inspection and Advisory service raising achievement for ethnic minority students. She moved into teacher education via the Open University's innovative on-line distance learning PGCE in 1995.
Subsequently she moved to a research post at Leeds University in 1999, working on various UK and International projects in computer based - learning, as well as teaching postgraduates. She moved to Leeds Metropolitan University in 2004 and to Sunderland University in 2010. She has written numerous publications and invited presentations and reviews for journals and conferences. The first major research project in which she was involved, NIMIS, was nominated for the prestigious Stockholm prize. She has been involved with and authored a number of research projects.
Teaching Areas
Education - MA, PHD, Professional Doctorate
Research Interests
Affective and moral issues, ICT and artificial interlligence, literacy and numeracy, English as Second Language and Special Educational Needs.
Selected Publications
Cooper B (2011) Empathy in education: engagement, values and achievement, Continuum, London (academic monograph due 2011)
Cooper B (2011) Valuing the human in the design and use of technology in education; an ethical approach to the digital age of learning, chapter in Broadhead P and Campbell A. Working with young children and young people: ethical debates and practices across disciplines and continents, Peter Lang AG Oxford.
Cooper B (2011) Developing an ethic of care with children and young people: Opportunties and challenges Chapter in Broadhead P and Campbell A, Working with young children and young people: Ethical debates and practices across disciplines and continents. Peter Lang AG Oxford.
Elzuki S and Cooper B (2011) Understanding and enhancing emotional literacy in severley autistic students using facial recognition software, Chapter in Moore D (2011) Disabled Students in Education: Technology, Transition and Inclusivity, IGI Global. In press
Cooper B (2010) in search of profound empathy in learning relationships: understanding the mathematics of moral learning environments, Journal of Moral Education, Vol.39, No.1, March 2010 pp79-99.
Cooper B (2008) Affective issue in education. Chapter in Warren (ed) Education studies: course companion to themes and context, London, Continuum ISBN
Cooper B (2006) The Significance of Emotion and Empathy in Learning with MC3, Conf proc. ICALT 2006 Kerkrade, Holland July 4th-7th
Cooper B (2004) Empathy, interation and caring; teachers' roles in a constrained environment, Pastoral Care in Education, Vol.22, No.3, Sept 2004
Cooper B and Brna P (2003) A classroom of the Furture Today. Chapter in Siraj-Blatchford J (Ed) Developing new technologies for young Children. Stoke-on-Trent, Trentham Books
Cooper B (2003) Care-making the affective leap: more than a concerned interest in a learners cognitive abilities. International Journal of Atrificial Intelligence in Education, Vol.13, No.1, 2003
Cooper B & Brna P (2002) Designing for Interation - Creating and Evaluating an empathic ambience in Computer Intergrated Learning Environments. Chapter in Socially Intelligent Agents - creating relationships with computer and robots, published by Kluwer within the series Multi-agent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations
Brna P and Cooper B (2002) Supporting Young Children Learning to Write Stories Together in a Classroom of the Future. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning, 12 (5/6)
Cooper B & Brna P (2002) Supporting high quality interaction and motivation in the classroom using ICT: the social and emotional learning and engagement in the NIMIS project. Education, Communication and Information, Vol.2, No2/3
Coopwe B, Brna P and Martins A (2000) Effective Affective in intelligent systems - building on evidence of empathy in teaching and learning. Chapeter in Paiva A and Martinho C (Eds), Affect in Interactions: Towards a new Generation of Interfaces, pp21-30, Springer-Varlag
Cooper B and Brna P (2000) Classroom Conundrums - evaluating complexity - Special Issue of Evaluating Learning Technology in Educational Technology & Society, Vol.3, Iss.4, 2000
Cooper B & Brna P (2000) Forstering cartoon-style creativity with sensitive agent support in tomorrows classroom? Educational Technology and Society Special Issue 3(4) 2000
