Emeritus Professor of Education

BSc Hons, DipSocSci, PGCE (Birmingham)

PhD (Leicester)

Tel: 0116 252 3661
Email: jar@le.ac.uk  

Tina Jarvis is Emeritus Professor of Education here at the University of Leicester. She is an active researcher, teacher and administrator who believes in using research continually to inform and improve the impact of primary science teaching.

Until Tina’s partial retirement in September 2009, she was Executive Director of the Science Learning Centre East Midlands, Pollen National Coordinator of UK ‘Seed City’ Leicester and Director of SCIcentre: National Centre for Initial Teacher Training in Primary School Science.  Tina continues to work as UK Coordinator of the EU Fibonacci Project : Large Scale Dissemination of Inquiry-Based Science and Mathematics Education with which the School of Education is heavily involved as one of 12 Reference Centres. 

Before coming to Leicester in 1989, Tina taught in several inner-city schools in Birmingham, before being awarded a Commonwealth Universities Fellowship in 1991 and British Council Award in 1994 to initiate and develop research with centres for science and technology education in Australia.

Research

• Research Interests
• Publications

Teaching

 Tina works with a group of primary and secondary teachers who are trialling innovative approaches for incorporating mathematics within science as part of the 'EU Fibonacci Project : Large Scale Dissemination of Inquiry-Based Science and Mathematics Education'.

Selected Publications

Harlen W. and Jarvis T. (2011) What happens in other countries? In W. Harlen (Ed) ASE Guide to Primary Science Education, ASE (pp195-203)

Jarvis, T., Pell A. & Hingley P. (in press 2011) Variations in Primary Teachers’ Responses and Development during Three Major Science In-service Programmes Journal for the Centre for European Policy Studies

T. Jarvis (2009) Promoting creative cross-curricular work through an in-service programme SSR March 90 (332)