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Papers by Tim Cain

... Authors like Hoyle and John (1995), Lortie (1975), Jackson (1968), Shulman (1986), Elbaz (198... more ... Authors like Hoyle and John (1995), Lortie (1975), Jackson (1968), Shulman (1986), Elbaz (1983) and Putnam and Borko (1997) were writing about different aspects of teachers' professionalism which can be summed up in three dimensions, namely knowledge, autonomy and ...

Curriculum Journal, 2014

ABSTRACT Recent public discussions of curriculum and pedagogy that have accompanied the English N... more ABSTRACT Recent public discussions of curriculum and pedagogy that have accompanied the English National Curriculum review have been structured around clichéd dichotomies that generate more heat than light and that, as Robin Alexander has argued, reduce complex educational debates to oppositional and incompatible slogans. This paper begins by exploring the ways in which these dichotomies have structured recent debates and goes on to critically explore arguments in two contemporary debates, in the fields of history education and music education, assessing how these debates have been framed and the extent to which the debates can be considered fruitful and progressive. In the first case, we seek to show, through a discussion of ‘knowledge’ and ‘skill’ in history, that bipolar thinking is both inadequate and dysfunctional in relation to the matters under discussion. A third term – disciplinary understanding – is advocated and explored. In the second case, we demonstrate that dichotomous thinking about formal and informal music education has generated a debate that has become more sophisticated as various authors have problematised and critiqued informal learning. Analysis of these debates suggests that dichotomous thinking is pernicious when dichotomies are used only as slogans, although dichotomies can be generative when they are used as starting points to open discussion, not to close it. The paper suggests that the difference between the debates might be explained by the varying degrees of political involvement in them.

University of London, UK DIANA HARRIS Open University, UK KEVIN JENNINGS VP Next Generation Learn... more University of London, UK DIANA HARRIS Open University, UK KEVIN JENNINGS VP Next Generation Learning Products, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Ireland EMILY KEELER Wandsworth School Music Services, UK ALEXANDRA LAMONT University of Keele, UK ...

Journal of Education for Teaching, 2015

International Journal of Research Method in Education, Apr 1, 2008

Mentoring Tutoring Partnership in Learning, Feb 1, 2009

This review explores ways in which the mentors of trainee teachers can use research as a means of... more This review explores ways in which the mentors of trainee teachers can use research as a means of questioning, understanding and improving their own practices. The first part presents an overview of empirical and theoretical research into mentoring relationships. ...

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Whilst educational action research is not unknown in Croatia, its use is not widespread. In part,... more Whilst educational action research is not unknown in Croatia, its use is not widespread. In part, this might be because action research assumes a high level of autonomy for practitionerresearchers, and a constructivist view of knowledge, neither of which are ...

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3 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University's objective ... more 3 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi ...

International Journal of Music Education, 2010

... DOI: 10.1177/0255761410362942 2010 28: 159 International Journal of Music Education Tim Cain ... more ... DOI: 10.1177/0255761410362942 2010 28: 159 International Journal of Music Education Tim Cain Music teachers' action research and the development of Big K knowledge ... Corresponding author: Tim Cain, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. ...

The Curriculum Journal, 2015

Music Education Research, 2005

This article examines a change in the procedures for developing beginning teachers'(trai... more This article examines a change in the procedures for developing beginning teachers'(trainees) subject knowledge on a music teacher training course. The change, provoked by the response of an extraordinary trainee, prompts the author to ask,'to what ...

Music Education Research, 2013

Journal of Education for Teaching, 2009

In 2001, Maguire published the findings from a survey of the perceptions and experiences of secon... more In 2001, Maguire published the findings from a survey of the perceptions and experiences of secondary school trainee teachers of adultadult bullying. The current paper reports on a study which aimed to compare the incidence and nature of bullying of postgraduate ...

International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2008

International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2011

Teachers&#x27; classroom‐based action research is sometimes misunderstood by those who un... more Teachers&#x27; classroom‐based action research is sometimes misunderstood by those who undertake it and support it, in three respects. First, it is wrongly assumed to fall into either positivist or interpretive paradigms (or perhaps a mixture of both) or to be critical. Second, ...

European Journal of Teacher Education, 2010

Ethnomusicology Forum, 2010

Educational Action Research, 2013