Programme 348, Teacher Education with Anja Swennen & Kay Livingston (9-1-19)

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

Theme tune David Vesey

On this week's programme I speak to two teacher educators, Anja Swennen from the University of Amsterdam and Professor Kay Livingston from the University of Glasgow. Kay Livingston talks about innovative teaching with specific reference to a cross-European research study she is conducting with colleagues in her Research Development Community of the Association of Teacher Education in Europe. Anja Swennen continues the discussion which was begun on last week's programme and among the topics discussed are the following:

• How she goes about her work as a scholar of the history of education
• Using “memorial books” to write about the history of institutions
• Teacher education in the Netherlands during the Second World War.
• Returning to “normal” after the Second World War
• Teachers who had significant impacts on her
• How her father inspires her
• Why she likes the work of Michael Apple and especially his book Education and Power and John Loughran, whose book is titled Developing a pedagogy of teacher education: Understanding Teaching & Learning about Teaching.