Dr Warren Edmund Kidd

I position my work as a teacher educator as informed by the experience and professional location of having taught all years from year 6 (through secondary and Further Education, entry to HE, undergraduate) through to Masters level (level 7) and educating teachers across the secondary, lifelong learning and HE contexts. It is this professional context that informs my work in Higher Education and in particular, in the teaching and support of trainee teachers’ professional learning. Drawing these practices together, I am involved in the initial and continuing teacher education and training of pre-service and in-service professionals across secondary, lifelong learning and HE contexts.

As Senior Lecturer in Education at The School of Education and Communities I am involved in developing, delivering and managing learning and teaching for professional post-graduate learners on Initial Teacher Education programmes for both the secondary and lifelong learning sectors. I am Subject Leader for the School Direct (SD) humanities and social science Secondary Initial Teacher Education programmes and share responsibility for Secondary PGCE Geography with a colleague. I am also the Programme Leader for the PG Cert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education which is accredited by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) for the recognition of FHEA. My work also involves working collaboratively with local partners and providers of post compulsory education both within our consortium colleges and within London as a whole. I have an interest in podcasting and in the use of emergent technologies as a tool for research, teacher education pedagogy, new teacher identity, digital ethnography and student voice. My research interests also include a commitment to participatory and inclusive action research as a means to develop teacher professionalism and practice.

I have had a writing career spanning over 15 years, supporting learning and teaching in a variety of contexts – sociology and education, learning and teaching and e learning. Prior to working in Higher Education, I have taught the humanities and sociology and psychology for 14 years in secondary schools and Sixth Form Colleges in Surrey, Kent and London as an ‘advanced teaching practitioner’. I previously worked in the multi-cultural, urban environment of Newham in east London for eight years in the Post Compulsory sector as a teacher of sociology, social science manager of a large Sixth Form College and as an action-researcher and cross-college manager responsible for Teaching and Learning.

My Doctorate (awarded May 2017) used a digital ethnographic method to explore the identities and craft practices of novice teachers in the life-long learning sector in England. 

My research interests include:

New teacher identity
Teacher education knowledge base and identity
Elearning
Student voice
Action research
Digital ethnographic methods

See my blog at: www.allthingsteachereducation.blogspot.co.uk

This Weblog houses my podcasts and blogs for teaching, learning and mentoring. The Weblog also links to the

Follow me @ Twitter for podcasts @ – allthingsite@twitter

My current writing for professional learners and audiences includes:

Student voice
14-19 teaching and learning
Digital ethnography as applied to novice teacher identity
Motivating teenage learners
Using elearning and social media in teaching
Homework and learning outside of the classroom
The use of action research for educational professionals
The changing landscape of teacher education reform and teacher educators’ development in England

I am the Subject Lead for Humanities and Social Science Secondary Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes and also the Programme Leader for the Pg Cert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. The PG Cert is accredited by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) for the award of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). 

Across the secondary ITE programmes as a whole I take responsibility for supporting Schools Direct Salaried (SDS) trainees as well as being the Module Leader for the Active Inquiry module.