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Details for Professor Andrew Pollard
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Andrew Pollard |
| Job title | Chair in Education |
| Department | Graduate School of Education University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | BA(Leeds), MEd, PhD(Sheff), PhD(Edin) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | British Educational Research Association |
| Keywords | teaching-learning processes learner perspectives evidence-based classroom practice primary education reflective teaching national curriculum development large-scale research programmes research impact strategies |
| Areas of expertise | I am an experienced researcher in Education. I directed UK-wide initiatives such as the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (2002-09), the UK Strategic Forum for Research in Education (2008-11) and now the Education Sub-panel for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. As a former school teacher, my research interests include teaching-learning processes and learner perspectives, as well as the development of evidence-based classroom practice. I have written a series of textbooks on reflective teaching. In the 1980s, I studied the effects of education legislation on practices in English primary school classrooms. In 2011, I was a member of an Expert Panel advising the government on contemporary curricular reforms. My early research developed the Identity and Learning Programme (ILP), a longitudinal ethnographic study of the interaction of identity, learning, assessment, career and social differentiation in children's experiences of schooling from age 4 to 16. |
| Media experience | Newspaper, radio and TV interview experience. |