Allan Blake
University of Strathclyde
24 Papers
178 Citations
Allan Blake is an academic researcher from University of Strathclyde. The author has contributed to research in topics: Professional learning community & Teacher education. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 24 publications.
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Papers
Finding an identity and meeting a standard: connecting the conflicting in teacher induction
TL;DR: In this article, the experience of new teachers is conceptualized as personal stories of identity formation with a clear emotional-relational dimension and a sense of self and intrinsic purpose in which others, especially colleagues and children, are central.
The informal learning of new teachers in school
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present what the study of the experiences of beginning teachers and their informal learning says about the process of learning to teach, and discuss the main emerging themes in relation to a wider literature.
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'The work of teacher education' final research report
Viv Ellis,Allan Blake,Jane McNicholl,Jim McNally +3 more
- 01 Jun 2011
TL;DR: This article found that the most time intensive activity for the higher education tutors in their sample was maintaining relationships with schools and between schools and individual trainee teachers, and that the need to maintain relationships to such a degree is caused in part by the creation of a marketplace of providers of teacher education who compete for funding on the basis of inspection and quality assurance data and also by the very early school placements that characterise the English model of initial teacher education in comparison to other European models such as that of Finland.
Job satisfaction among newly qualified teachers in Scotland
Nick Boreham,Peter Gray,Allan Blake +2 more
- 01 Sep 2006
TL;DR: In this article, the ESRC TLRP Early Professional Learning (EPL) project is investigating the processes and outcomes of learning to become a teacher in the probationary year, and one of the five learning outcomes is job satisfaction.
Miss, what's my name? New teacher identity as a question of reciprocal ontological security
Jim McNally,Allan Blake +1 more
TL;DR: This article extended the dialogue of educational philosophy to the experience of beginners entering the teaching profession, through connection to a wider literature that includes reference to Giddens, Illeris, Deleuze and Heidegger.