As Senior Lecturer in Secondary Social Science and Humanities Education Gerry is involved in contributing to the development and teaching of courses related to these disciplines as well as teaching on Masters and Doctoral programmes.  In addition to his role as a researcher, author and teacher educator his work involves liaising with our partnership schools and colleges and observing our trainee teachers within these institutions.

He was awarded his degree at the University of North London (now London Metropolitan University) before completing both his PGCE and Master's degrees at London University's Institute of Education.   His PhD Thesis (Kings College London) focussed on comparative work with newly qualified teachers in Norway, Germany and England examining the formation of values and teacher identities. His current research interests include Teaching and Learning, Student Voice, the identities of teacher educators, Continuing Professional Development and the global dimension in schools.

Gerry has passionately worked in the multi-cultural environment in the London Borough of Newham for ten years teaching humanities, sociology and business studies at secondary and post-sixteen levels before gradually moving into teaching within Higher Education within both the political sciences and education (The Open University, University of Northampton, London Metropolitan University and London University's Institute of Education).

Gerry is an editorial board member and book reviews editor for Management in Education and on the advisory board of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. He reviews for a wide range of educational journals (including the European Journal of Teacher Education and the Journal of Education Policy) and for book publishers including SAGE, Routledge and Emerald. 

• Research Mentor
• Teacher Education Research Group Leader
• Research Degrees Leader

Teaching and Learning; Student Voice; teacher identities; the identities of teacher educators; Continuing Professional Development; the role of homework in educational achievement; and the global dimension in schools.

• Secondary GTP and PGCE
• PGCE Post Compulsory Education and Training/Cert Ed.
• Doctoral and Masters Programmes

My colleague Warren Kidd and I have just completed our second book for Sage on motivating teenage learners (click here for details)  published in September 2011 and titled:

• 'Teaching Teenagers: A Toolbox for engaging and motivating learners'

 We have also written and edited a book for Emerald on Learner Voice (click here for details) published in August 2011 and titled:

• The Student Voice Handbook - Bridging the Academic/Practitioner Divide

 Two books were published in 2010:

• ‘Successful Teaching 14 – 19: Theory, Practice and Reflection’ for Sage with Warren Kidd, a colleague from the PCET team at the Cass School of Education published March 2010 (click here for details).

• 'Emerging Teachers and Globalisation' (click here for details) published with Routledge in July 2010.

BOOKS/CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Czerniawski G & Kidd W [eds] (2011) The Student Voice Handbook – Bridging the Academic/Practitioner Divide, London: Emerald (click here for details)

Kidd W & Czerniawski G (2011) Engaging and motivating teenage learners: A toolbox for teachers, London: Sage (click here for details)

Czerniawski G (2010) Emerging Teachers and Globalisation, New York, Routledge/Taylor Frances (click here for details)

Kidd W. & Czerniawski G (2010) Successful Teaching 14-19 - Theory, Practice and Reflection London, Sage (click here for details).

Czerniawski G (2010) Constructing and Deconstructing Newly-qualified Teachers' Values in an Urban Context in: L. Ang, J.Trushell and P. Walker (Eds.) Learning and Teaching in a Metropolis, (Rudopi)

Czerniawski G (2008) Constructing and deconstructing the values of beginning teachers in Norway, Germany and England- in: Comparative Education, Teacher Training, Education Policy and Social Inclusion vol 6 (Bureau for Education Services)

Kidd W, Czerniawski G and Abbot D (2005) Heinemann Sociology for AQA A2 Oxford: Heinemann

Kidd W, Abbot D and Czerniawski G (2004) Heinemann Sociology for OCR A2 Oxford: Heinemann

Kidd W, Czerniawski G and Abbot D (2004) Heinemann Sociology for AQA AS Oxford: Heinemann

Czerniawski G, Kidd W and Abbot D (2003) Heinemann Sociology for OCR AS Oxford: Heinemann

INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

Along with my colleague Warren Kidd, I am the Guest Editor of a forthcoming Special Edition of Management in Education (MiE) a Sage journal of BELMAS. This special edition will look at issues related to Student Voice.

Czerniawski G (2012) Repositioning trust: a challenge to inauthentic neoliberal uses of pupil voice, in: Management in Education, (26) No. 3.

Czerniawski G (2011) Emerging Teachers - Emerging identities: Trust and Accountability in the construction of newly qualified teachers in Norway, Germany and England – European Journal of Teacher Education. 34 (4) pp 431-447

Murray J.,Czerniawski G.,Barber P. (2011) Teacher educators' identities and work in England at the beginning of the second decate of the twenty first century, Journal of Education for Teaching, 37 (3) pp. 261.277.

Czerniawski G (2009) Positioning the values of early career teachers in Norway, Germany and England, European Journal of Education, Vol 44 No 3 September 2009

ON-LINE CONFERENCE PAPERS

Czerniawski G, Garlick S., Hullen H. (2010) Listening to Learners - Partnerships in Action -A case study from the London Borough of Havering, Paper presented at The European Educational Research Association, University of Helsinki, Finland. see here for a copy

Czerniawski G, Wright K & Herrington N (2010) One Year on - Embedding the Global Dimension into Secondary Initial Teacher Training through the use of Virtual Schools, Paper presented at the Local4Global Conference, Southbank University, July 2010 see here for a copy

Czerniawski G, Garlic S. (2009) Practices, tensions and ambiguities in the voices of learners: a case study from the London Borough of Havering - Paper Presented at Manchester University at the BERA Annual Conference September 2009 (Education-line) see here for a copy

Czerniawski G (2009) New Values - New Careers: an examination of the values of Newly Qualified Teachers in Norway, Germany and England in: A Jackson [ed] Innovations and Developments in Initial Teacher Education (Escalate) see here for a copy

Czerniawski G (2008) Emerging Teachers - Emerging Values - A study of newly qualified teachers in Norway, Germany and England - Paper Presented at Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh at the BERA Annual Conference September 2008 (Education-line) see here for a copy.

RECENT (SELECTED) CONFERENCE PAPERS

Czerniawski G (2012) Nice work if you can get it! a longitudinal study of teacher professional development in Norway, Germany and England, symposium paper presented at DGfE Osnabruck, Germany 12. – 14. März 2012

Murray J., Barber P., Czerniawski G (2010) The importance of experience in teacher education: exploring change in teacher educators' identities over time. Paper presented at The European Educational Research Association, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Czerniawski G (2009) Leaving the Nest - an examination of newly qualified teachers in Norway, Germany and England - Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research, University of Vienna, 28th – 30th September 2009

Herrington N, Czerniawski G, Wright K, (2009) Embedding Global Citizenship into Secondary Initial Teacher Training through the use of Virtual Schools: some lessons (Escalate)

 

REPORTS

Czerniawski G, Garlick S., Hudson T., Peters P. (2010) Listening to Learners, Report for the Higher Education Acadamy/Escalate

PUBLISHED BOOK REVIEWS SINCE 2008:

Rizvi F and Lingard B. (2010) Globalising Education Policy, New   York: Routledge, reviewed in: Critical Studies in Education, 52 (3) (2011) pp. 295-297.

Hudson B., Zgaga P. (2008))Teacher Education Policy in Europe - A Voice of Higher Education Institutions (Umea) - reviewed in The Journal of Education Policy Vol 25 no 3 (2010).

Kelly A., (2007) School Choice and Student Well-Being – Opportunity and Capability in Education, New York, Palgrave MacMillan - reviewed in The Journal of Education Policy Vol 23, No 6, 2008

Fautley M., Savage J. (2007) Creativity in Secondary Education, Exeter, Learning Matters - reviewed in Management in Education (Sage)

Caldwell B.J. (2007) Re-Imagining Educational Leadership, London, Sage - reviewed in Management in Education

Czerniawski G (2009) Watch this space! A report on the 14-19 Agenda(East London Partnership) PCET e-zine, no 1.

Czerniawski G (2008) Schooling and Democracyin: Sociology Review vol 18 no 2 (Philip Allan)

Czerniawski G (2007) Understanding Migrationin: Sociology Review vol 16 no 3 (Philip Allan)

Czerniawski G (2007) Context, Setting and Teacher Identities: A comparative study of the values of newly qualified teachers in Norway, Germany and England (Kings College London) PhD Thesis

Czerniawski G (2005) Pressure Groupsin: Sociology Review vol 14 no 4 (Philip Allan)

Czerniawski G (2004) What is the role of education?in: Sociology Review vol 14 no 2 (Philip Allan)

Kidd W and Czerniawski G (2004) Research and Value Freedomin Sociology Review vol 14 no 2 (Philip Allan)

Czerniawski G (2003) Religion and Gender in: Sociology Review vol 12 no 2 (Philip Allan)

Czerniawski G (2002) Ideas to Activate Learning London: ATSS

Czerniawski G (2002) Structuring lessons: A literature review London ATSS

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of the Board of Examiners for MA, PG Diploma and PG Certificate in Applied Education Leadership and Management for External Students - Institute of Education University of London
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
• Reviewer for the European Journal of Teacher Education
• External Examiner for King's College London
• Book reviews editor for the journal 'Management in Education'
• Editor of Research in Secondary Teacher Education
• Member of the College of Reviewers for the Journal of Educational Policy (JEP).
• Member of the Institute of Educational Assessors
• Ambassador for the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre
• Visiting tutor on the MA in Applied Educational Leadership and Management - Institute of Education University of London
• Examiner for AQA Sociology
• Member of the Association of Teachers of Social Sciences (ATSS)