Our Network

Teacher education is seen internationally as a key lever in improving pupil outcomes, and, ultimately, enhancing nation states’ competitiveness on the global stage. The current global meta-narrative pronounces that ‘teachers matter’ and that it is not just more teachers but quality teachers that are required.

Recognising education as having transformative capacity focuses on the importance of teachers, highlighting the need for teachers who not only have high-level knowledge and skills, but who also have the dispositions and the social and political awareness to carry their responsibilities wisely. Thus, teacher education has never been more important, and yet it rarely attracts large-scale funding and is often accused of lacking a coherent, theoretically informed literature base

The Scottish Government investment in the ‘Measuring Quality in ITE’ (MQuITE) project – a collaborative, longitudinal study of teacher education quality in Scotland – has facilitated significant cross-Scotland momentum in developing a theoretically-informed empirical evidence base. Therefore, this SERA network seeks to build on this momentum and provide a forum for further consolidating and extending this collaborative effort to build research and enhance practice within teacher education.

TEN welcomes membership from researchers (established academics and research students), research users (GTCS, Education Scotland/SCEL, RICs, Scottish Government) and practitioners. Anyone interested in joining the network should contact the network convenors.

Network Activities

All future updates can be found in the SERA Latest section of this website under the Teacher Education Network category.

2023

November: Workshop at SERA Conference.

June: Sharing research in teacher education event held jointly with the University of Strathclyde Teacher Education Network at University of Strathclyde.

May: Final MQuITE Report Seminar.

Contact Information

To find out more about the network and to join the network mailing list please contact either Lorna or Nicola.

Social Media 

X: @MQuITE­_Ed

Convenors

Lorna Hamilton, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh

Anna Robb, University of Dundee

Publications

Shanks, R. (2020) Teacher preparation in Scotland. Emerald Publishing Limited: Leeds.