Terry Wrigley

Terry Wrigley

Another school is possible: school reform in a neo-liberal age

This paper, an expanded version of a keynote presentation at the conference, highlights the links between centrally controlled and restrictive curriculum and teaching methods and neoliberal politics. It challenges the dominant model of ‘School Improvement’ in the context of social inequality, and introduces some alternative pedagogies which have the potential…

Transforming teacher education: professionalism for a changing world

This article provides an introduction to a reform in undergraduate teacher education at Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh. The reformed courses are based on principles of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and other student-centred methods, and involve a restructuring of teaching and learning, and new forms of assessment. The…