The promise and perils of School-University Partnerships

Professor David Pedder

School of Education

Lecture summary

Schools and universities are being encouraged to adapt, extend and strengthen their joint work in the areas of teachers’ professional learning, leadership capacity-building, research and development, and networking. The current Teaching School policy initiative in England provides a strong national policy context for such joint work. In this lecture, I would like to explore what is distinctive about the contributions of universities and schools to these areas; what can universities and schools learn and do better through working in partnership, and the issues, conflicts and debates that relate to school-university partnerships and that influence their promise for supporting development of learning in classrooms, schools and networks.