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Personal profile
Overview
Teaching:
- Initial Teacher Education, BA(hons) programme (SCQF levels 7-10)
- PGDE Programme (SCQF levels 10-11)
- PGDE Critical Self-Evaluation (SCQF level 11)
- MSC in Mental Health: Leading and Motivating Learning (SCQF level 11)
Research:
Currently engaged in PhD study into Teacher professional learning communities (PLCs) which are frequently presented as a mechanism for enhancing professional knowledge and capacity in teachers. Significant research evidence has been generated to support this view (Cordingley et al. 2005; Stoll et al. 2006, 2007; Edwards, 2012). Collaborative observational practices such as Learning Rounds, Learning Triads or Learning Walks are increasingly advocated in education and other professions as a means of supporting home-grown professional learning situated in the workplace. However, there are conflicting arguments in this debate (see Dooner et. al.(2008); Fendler (2011) Servage (2009) and Watson (2014)) and further empirical knowledge is vital to inform practice in this area and generate deeper understanding of the relationships and processes involved in PLCs, and their emergent agentic effects. This study aims to fill that gap
Target collaborative organisations
In discussion with Nienke Moolenar (University of Utrecht) regarding potential collaborative research project on Professional learning Communities (pending PhD)
In discussion with Centre for Social Ontology (UCL) - on-going participation in CR interest group
Other areas of expertise available for knowledge exchange
Online professional development for teachers
Target collaborative companies
Ongoing partnership with Bridges programmes to develop programme to enable qualified refugees into teaching
External positions
Online Facilitator, Scottish Educational Leadership and Management Association
Mar 2012 → …Keywords
- L Education (General)
- professional learning
- PLCs
- collaborative practices
- agency
- Education Policy
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Research Output 2013 2017
Professional learning communities as drivers of educational change: the case of learning rounds
Philpott, C. & Oates, C. 1 May 2017 In : Journal of Educational Change. 18, 2, p. 209-234 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Accessing the field: methodological difficulties of research in schools
Oates, C. & Riaz, N. N. 21 Dec 2016 In : Education in the North. 23, 2, p. 53-74 22 p., 23Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Teacher agency and professional learning communities: what can Learning Rounds in Scotland teach us?
Philpott, C. & Oates, C. 18 May 2016 In : Professional Development in Education. 43, 3, p. 1-16 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Learning Rounds: what the literature tells us (and what it doesn’t)
Philpott, C. & Oates, C. 2015 In : Scottish Educational Review. 47, 1, p. 49-65Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Methodological difficulties in research: accessing schools as sites of research
Oates, C. & Riaz, N. 18 Nov 2015Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Prizes
University of Stirling, Vice Chancellor's Award
Catriona Oates (Recipient), 22 Apr 2015
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